Four days of August, twenty-two music stages, dozens of concerts and performances, hundreds of performers and thousands of spectators. All this is promised by the Brno Music Marathon 2019 international festival, which will burst out in just a week, on 8 August 2019. Concerts in the streets and squares will be accessible for free, featuring among others Jana Kirschner, Khoiba, Motionhouse and NoFit State Circus, Monika Bagárová, Jan P. Muchow & The Antagonists, Progres 2, Žamboši or Pacora Trio with Denisa Kopačková. Buskers will play in dwelling rooms on the streets, barrel organ players will appear as part of their 10th international meeting. DJ Jon Hopkins, known for his cooperation with Coldplay, will also come to Brno. Cirk La Putyka and Pokáč are coming, and Lázně Rašínova [Rašínova Spa] will be occupied by opera singers and synchronised swimming. Music will sound also in the underground, in a mall, in churches, in a hotel or in the Town Hall.
The opening of the largest music festival in the centre of Brno will be preceded by an allegorical parade of performers from Amanitas Fire Theater in costumes with special pyrotechnic effects on Thursday, 8 August 2019 on Radnická Street. Goddesses with wings, devils and angels, accompanied by artistically mixed music with live female vocals, will take the audience to Jakubské Náměstí Square, where the informal opening of the festival will take place. The beatboxer Endru or Ritmo Factory with its modern drum show will be featured.
The renowned Brno visual artist Kateřina Šedá has been bringing live music not only to the centre of Brno, but mainly to unconventional places, thanks to her project named Bezuliční busking [Strettless Busking]. In the past, it was possible to hear musicians on balconies, in the underground, and on escalators. Last year, music was played in a yellow Mercedes, on a pedestrian crossing and at the top of a tree.
This season of the festival will offer dwelling concerts directly in the streets. Four open rooms (living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen) will host buskers to give listeners an unforgettable experience – they will be home in the streets. Artists such as the Crazy Accordion Trio (Poland), Steve Aruni (United Kingdom), Mario Bihari , Schizzle Orchestra will be joined by barrel organ players from all over the world, just like last year. The novelty of this year's festival will be the participation of artists from two other UNESCO Creative Cities of Music (Brno won this prestigious title in 2017) – singer Tinatin Tsereteli from is coming from the German city of Hanover and violinist Nicola Manzanim from Bologna; a large Buskers' Jam will take place on Saturday 10 August evening at the Dominik Stage.
The large Dominik Stage will be built on the newly renovated Dominikánské náměstí Square, offering a mix of genres: alternative, art rock, electronica, film music, children's music, jazz, pop and rock. Its quieter counterpart will be the Guest Centre in the courtyard of the Old Town Hall. It will offer an oasis of calm and information about the festival, but also good food and drink. All this will be accompanied by short concerts of various genres, which will once again include performances for children.
The Folklore Stage at the Bishop's Court will be dedicated to folk music, as well as the Orlí Stage on the terrace next to the theatre, the Kabinet Stage will feature alternative in the famous Brno club, Roma music wil be heard from the Django Stage on Malinovského Náměstí Square and reproduced chillout music production accompanied by stylish gastronomy will be offered by the Brunch'n'Park Stage on Moravské Náměstí Square .
The functionalist Alfa pasáž [Alpha Mall] will resonate with Pianoštfeta; the Jesuit Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary will host a show named The Infinite Organ at the Jesuits Church. Classics will also be played at the Assembly Room of the New Town Hall, where Barbara Maria Willi & friends will bring the charm of Scottish songs and the power of Ukrainian folklore, and the Mintmaster Cellar, which will host the duo Pavel Fischer & Jakub Jedlinský with its thrilling combination of world music, classics and jazz.
This year, Czech and foreign buskers will unpack it in four street rooms – on Česká Street, Jakubské Náměstí Square, in the Letmo shopping mall and in the old tunnel called Myší díra [Mouse Hole], barrel organ players will play in the centre, at the Slavia Hotel or at the Red Church. The summer terrace of the Špilberk Castle will belong once again to the most remarkable songwriter of the new generation, who calls himself Pokáč.
Náměstí Svobody Square will host, apart from the barrel organ players, a performance called BLOCK by the British Motionhouse and NoFit State, organized in cooperation with the festival On the Boards, Pavement and Grass; Sono Centrum, thanks to its cooperation with Letní Letná, will present Cirk La Putyka. Jon Hopkins' dance party will take place at Fléda and listeners will be invited to Rašínova Spa to the opera The Last Polo.
Venues of music production:
Dominik Stage
Dominikánské Náměstí Square
Mix of genres
9 and 10 August
Guest Centre
courtyard of the Old Town Hall
live music, information centre and gastronomy
8 - 11 August
Streetless Busking
Jakubské Náměstí Square, Česká Street, Letmo shopping mall, Myší díra and the city centre
“Rooms” by the visual artist Kateřina Šedá
10th International Meeting of Barrel organ players
10 - 11 August
Cabinet Stage
Kabinet Múz
alternative, electronica, jazz, rock
9 and 10 August
Orlí Stage
Divadlo na Orlí
folk
9 August
Folklore Stage
Bishop's Court
folklore
10 August
Endless Organ at the Jesuit Church
Jesuit Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
classics
Pianoštafeta in the Alpha Mall
Alfa Palace
classics, pop
Django Stage
Malinovského Náměstí Square
Roma music
9 August
Brunch'n'Park Stage
Moravské Náměstí Square
chillout and gastronomy
9 August
Mintmaster's cellar
Dominikánské Náměstí Square
Pavel Fischer & Jakub Jedlinský
10 August
Assembly Room of the New Town Hall
Dominikánské Náměstí Square
Barbara Maria Willi & friends
11 August
Hotel Slavia
Solniční Street
10th World Championship of Barrel Organ Players – the opening show
11 August
The Red Church
Komenského Náměstí Square
10th World Championship of Barrel Organ Players – the closing show
11 August
Summer Terrace of Špilberk Castle
Špilberk
Pokáč + Aleš Petržela
8 August
Sono Centrum
Cirk La Putyka / Isole
8 – 10 August
Rašínova Spa
Hausopera / The Last Polo
9 and 10 August
Fléda
Jon Hopkins / DJ set
9 August
Náměstí Svobody Square
Motionhouse, NoFit State / BLOCK
10 and 11 August
THE PROGRAMME MAY CHANGE WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE
Up-to-date information is available on the festival website and on Facebook.
Admission to most events is free.
Photo from the archive of Music Marathon 2018
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