Prague Balfolk Weekend

Experienced balfolkies, both in terms of dance and music. Accords Perdus offers a repertoire of songs composed specifically for dancing and little gems from all horizons. The piano, vocals, and clarinet (sometimes bass) blend cheerfully to offer you a dance full of wit and energy.

Got ants in your pants? Then throw yourself into the dance...

• Pauline Gonzalez: piano, vocals
• Emile Postic: clarinet, bass clarinet

Aurélien Claranbaux moves fluidly between repertoire, composition, and improvisation—a trio he blends with ease. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of musical worlds, including traditional dance music from central France and Brittany, as well as jazz, rock, rap, and world music, he always keeps the groove of traditional music as his foundation.

Let yourself be carried away on this unique journey. Guided by the melodies, rhythms, improvisations, and nuances of a surprising accordionist constantly seeking new expressions, you’ll find yourself immersed in a captivating soundscape.

Electroacoustic trio combining traditional dance rhythms and semi-forgotten instruments with samples, loops and other electronic effects. The name ba.fnu is a shortcut for bal folk nuevo – new approach to balfolk. The band offers traditional dance music, bal folk and fest-noz tunes and with a Czech twist.

Their repertoire it covers most of the general bal folk standards as scottishes, mazurkas, cercles, bourrées, etc., as well as Breton and Czech dances.

• Mikuláš Bryan: cittern, kobza, vocals
• Daniel Kahuda: hurdy-gurdy, vocals
• Šimon Vojtík: percussions, keyboard, electronics, vocals

From compositions to revisits of traditional tunes, Bargainatt invites you to discover their universe at the same time modern and authentic. The musicians take their inspiration from the dances of various regions of France, trying to best respect their subtleties and traditions.

From Auvergne to Bretagne, via Poitou and Gascogne, Bargainatt offers you a journey with multiple colors and influences, full of energy and freshness.

• Camille Stimbre: violin and vocals
• Youmi Bazoge: violin and vocals
• Gabriel Chiapello: diatonic accordion and vocals
• Noé Bazoge: cello and vocals

The Ciac Boum trio blends traditional Poitou music with free improvisation in melodies and rhythms and spices it up with their contagious enthusiasm. Their music is energetic and inventive, drawing on the traditional heritage of the Poitou region, and adding their own compositions. You can look forward to rondes, avant-deux, pas d’été, valses, maraîchines and other popular dances.

• Julien Padovani: chromatic accordion, kick, vocals
• Christian Pacher: violin, vocals
• Alban Pacher: violin, vocals

Folk Knock is a Prague-based balfolk band born two years ago in the midst of sessions and bals. Two experienced musicians decided to share their passion for traditional music and dancing and their project soon blossomed into original compositions and the creation of their first album!

• Zoe Perrenoud: chromatic button accordion
• Emil Riumkin: flutes, banjo

Bal folk or trancefolk? Neon folk party! Oraj is a stunning duo offering a collective, participatory experience of body painting with the audience. Singing and forceful voices invite the audience to release their accumulated energy in a shower of sharing, movement and color.

• Léo Proulx: clarinet, vocals
• Quentin Pancher: mixing, electronics, vocals

Inspired by their musical encounters in France and abroad, this Breton duo writes music that breaks the mold and surprises by modern sound. Astonishing symbiosis of two instruments: The accordion fills the air with its chords and bass notes, while the hurdy-gurdy energizes the whole with its distinctive percussion. Look forward to haunting melodies with wild, captivating passages that won’t let you rest.

• Willy Pichard: hurdy-gurdy
• Stevan Vincendeau: diatonic accordion

French sound of melodeon and violin. Musical journey through the regions with the smell of the sea and lavender. The dreamy Brittany, the exuberant dances of Poitou and Pays Gallo, the gentle mazurkas of Gascony, the wild bourrée of Auvergne. A travel guide of French (bal)folk music.

• Mikuláš Bryan: diatonic accordion
• Jan Bartošek: violin