Brno’s Beatfest is in its 8th year. As part of an evening concert subitled Nechte zpívat Mišíka (Let Mišík Sing) a documentary with the same name by Jitka Němcová will be shown. Vladimír Mišík & Etc…, Ivan Hlas Trio, Michal Prokop, Roman Dragoun and others will be performing.
The eighth year of Beatfest will celebrate the jubilee of the now legendary rock singer, composer and lyricist – Vladimír Mišík. Mišík is the co-founder of the legendary group from the sixties – Matadors, at the head of which he began to be a professional musician. He was also in the Karel Duba Orchestra and later founded his first group of his own New Force. In the winter of 1968, together with his former colleague from Matadors, the guitarist Radim Hladík, he founded the group Blue Effect. After he finished playing in that group Mišík was invited by the drummer Jaroslav ‘Erno’ Šedivý to join the group Flamengo. Mišík recorded with them the still very well-known album Kuře v hodinkách to lyrics by Josef Kainar. Before the album could be issued Flamengo broke up and Mišík founded the episodic ensemble Formace. At the end of the first half of the seventies he founded the group ETC..., with which – through many personnel changes and a long period in the eighties when they were forbidden to play – he has performed until today. Aside from Vladimíra Mišíka & Etc… as part of Beatfest Ivan Hlas Trio, Michal Prokop, Folk Team and Roman Dragoun will also be performing.
Beatfest will take place 2 March 2017 from 6 p.m. in KC Semilasso.
