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Hania Chowaniec-Rybka and the Band

highlanders’ and folk music concert

03. 11. 2008 – Monday
7pm
OPUS, ul. Łąkowa 29

About Christian Culture Festival

Christian Culture Festival was organized for the first time in 1997 on 10th Anniversary of the Logos Theatre. In a sense, it extends the idea of Christian Culture Weeks organized in Poland in 70s and 80s of the last century, which were to become counterpoise to lay media model promoted by the State. Lodz Christian Culture Days were organized in churches all around the city, so as to accommodate the artists, spectacles, exhibitions and projections.

One of such places was the John Paul lecture theatre in the vault of the Assumption of Holy Mother Church in Kościelna Street. This is where the Logos Theatre started, before it was moved to the church in Maria Skłodowska-Curie. It was this church that Archbishop Władysław Ziółek gave to the Lodz artists in 1993, and in which the Centre of Creative Communities’ of Lodz Archdiocese was appointed. It is here that the ‘logistic’ centre of the Festival is located, and where some of the Festival events take place.

Traditionally, the Festival takes place in November, on the first Sunday after All Soul’s Day. It usually lasts for two weeks, during which various event take place – spectacle premiers, other theatres come to Lodz, there are exhibitions of invited artists, performances of choirs and musicians, very often not to be seen anywhere else in Poland at any other time. The Festival programme is the result of the whole year’s work of rev. Waldemar Sondka, the Festival Director, who – using his contacts – invites artists who are interesting, out of the ordinary, noteworthy and creating art perhaps not always religious, but always searching and at the highest level. Care for the level of the Festival offers is a permanent rule, the Logos environment has always wished to provide the Lodz citizens with the possibility of contact with art deprived of parochialism, open to the man and as perfect formally as possible.

The Festival is not an activity that brings profit. Any entrance cards are issued as invitations that are free of charge, and the team of the Logos Theatre and all the people engaged in the Festival organization, act as volunteers. This does not mean that Christian Culture Festival costs nothing. On the contrary, to organize such a cultural event at appropriate level is always connected with costs. Rev. Waldemar Sondka deals with organizing means to secure the Festival events all year round. He manages to gain sponsors (without whom the Festival would not exist) and subsidies from institutions that deal with funding culture (without which the Festival could not develop). All that in order to realize the basic idea of the event that derived from the Lodz Christian Culture Days – to enable anyone who wishes and needs that, to live the Mystery through art. This idea assumes a free of charge participation in all the artistic events, which has been the case since the very beginning of the Festival until today, the only condition is that on the day of the Festival opening, one must queue as long as it takes to get invitations. The only limit to the number of invitations is the capacity of rooms in which the events are organized every day throughout the two weeks of the Festival.


 

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Hania Rybka

An artist with the beautiful voice and musicality — born and raised in Podhale, in the family who cherished traditions, and for whom music is the natural completion of everyday life. In 2004 she released in the Polish Radio a folk record, arranged in modern jazz way, on the border of pop music. Pieces from “I to I to”, record are very popular with the listeners and are often played on the radio. The album was nominated for Fryderyki 2004 in the ethno/folk category.

But this is not the first of her successes. Hania Rybka is a laureate of many rewards. The quality of her original music was appreciated by the jury of the 5th Polish Radio Folk Competition “Nowa Tradycja”, in 2002, under the supervision of Czesław Niemen, who rewarded the band “Rybka i Przyjaciele”, with the third prize, founded by TV Polonia. The artist also received the Etnosfera Eurofolk Festival prize and Polish Highlander’s and Folks Song Festival. In June this year, he represented Poland at the 25th European Radio Union Festival in Pula, Croatia. She co-operated with Irena Santor, Maryla Rodowicz, such groups as “Brathanki”,, “Skaldowie”,, “Golec uOrkiestra”, and for some time with the Krakow cabaret “Loch Camelot”. She also sings on Marek Grechuta record.

She co-operated with highlander bands, sang the solo part of Jadwisia in the highlander’s opera “Jadwisia spod Regli”, by Julian Reimschussel. She also recorded two records with Jan Karpiel-Bułecka’s band “Zakopiany”, “Nuty spod hal” and “Ginie śnieżek po holach”. Since April 2004 she has been touring with Tatrzańska Orkiestra Klimatyczna conducted by Agnieszka Kreiner. In 2006 she took part in a big project realized for American Polonia in Chicago, within which Andrzej Brandstatter’s concert was organized, together with The Paderewski Sympony Orchestra.

In 2007 she was invited for the project prepared by the legendary American jazzman Bennie Maupin. The result was a record released in April 2008 on American and Polish market “Early Reflections”. Two of the 13 compositions have been inspired by Karol Szymanowski music and the folk melodies of Podhale (ATMA, Spirits of the Tatras). And there one can hear the singing of Hania Rybka. Apart from that, one can hear Michał Tokaj, Michał Barański and Łukasz Żyta on the record. The first concert took place in Zakopane. After the premiere, there has been a tour organized around the USA, in Los Angeles (CATALINA jazz club) and New York (JAZZ STANDARD). The promoting tour was finished by the concert in the Tatras in May 2008. Across the ocean, the band consisted of Bennie Maupin, Michal Tokaj, Darek Oles, Munyungo Jackson, Michael Stephans and Hania Rybka as a guest. Both the record and the concert were rising a lot of interest in the media: Jazz Forum, The Week Daily, The Urban Network, 100 Greatest Jazz Albums, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Spannered and Rzeczpospolita.

The vocalist gives concerts with her own band, where apart from the highlanders, there are also jazz musicians. The band includes: Andrzej Polak (violin), Paweł Trebunia-Tutka (viola), Leszek Szczerba (soprano sax), Józef Michalik (double bass) and Sławomir Berny (drums).

The Band

Andrzej Polak — is a young talented musician from Podhale. He works with the best highlander musicians. Playing the traditional music, he is looking for modern sounds for arrangements. Andrzej Polak is the founder of “Poloki”, band — a folk group that combines the Karpaty music with other music styles in a truly unique way. He co-operates with Trebunie-Tutki band from Biały Dunajec. He takes part in many recording sessions, i.e. in realisation of the project “the Karpaty Music”.

Paweł Trebunia–Tutka comes from the most famous many-generation musical family in Podhale. He went to the art High school of Antoni Kenar in Zakopane. As a musician, He is a marvellous alt viola player, but he is equally good with other traditional musical instruments. He played with such exceptional musicians as: Zbigniew Namysłowski, family band of Trebunie-Tutki, Piotr Majerczyk. He took part in many recordings of highlander and folk music.

Leszek Szczerba — one of the best Polish sax players. Graduated from Music Academy in Krakow. Plays with some of the best Polish and foreign jazz artists.

Józef Michalik — graduated from Music Academy in Krakow in the double bass class. His experience in music was gained during the symphony concerts in philharmonic, but also during the many jazz sessions. He took part in a few important recordings for the radio, TV shows and films (“,Pornografia”, directed by Jan Jakub Kolski). He co-operated with some of the most famous musicians of the Polish stage: Marek Grechuta, Grzegorz Turnau, Wojciech Młynarski.

Sławomir Berny — drum player, a graduate of Music Academy in Krakow. The most famous session musician. He took part in over 60 recordings and music projects, i.e. with “Kroke”, group, “Piwnica pod Baranami”, cabaret. He permanently co-operates with such artists as: Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz, Grzegorz Turnau, Andrzej Sikorowski and Jarosław Śmietana.