International Music Festival Dobrsska Brana

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The International Music Festival Dobršská Brána will again offer a refreshing insight into the world of contemporary music without dramaturgical compromises and a formal genre classification of performers. In their work they present, they freely switch between genres and combine elements of folk music with jazz and chamber music. This corresponds to the specific dramaturgy of the festival and its motto “The Gate to the World of Music”.

The festival continues and fits into the global trend of searching for new connections between traditional, classical and contemporary music and thus creates a unique musical event that would hardly find a comparison on the Czech music scene. At the same time, the festival gives a new impulse for meeting of world musicians and the Czech audience on the spot for many visitors unusual, yet with a long musical tradition, outside the Czech metropolis. The success of the past years is supported by musical responses from the audience and critics’ reviews by proving that the focus of the festival has been a step in the right direction. During the two-day period, the each year presents performers from all Europe and overseas, it considered to be the event with a truly wide world overlap.

The focus of the seventh year of the festival this year is the violin. We will hear this instrument in various combinations, including in free improvisation. There will be a variety of jazz in all forms and colors, as well as compositions inpired by national folklore and compositions tailored to specific performers.

Program 2023:

Friday August the 18

festival opening 15:30 Main second stage Dobrs Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary

Stano Palúch Quartet / PREMENY  /SVK/ 16:00 Second stage Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary
2 Alois Zatloukal Quartet /CZE/ 19:00 Main stage Dobrs Château
Adam Bałdych & Agata Szymczewska / LEGEND /POL/  20:30 Main stage Dobrs Château

Saturday August the 19

0 exhibition opening  / 11:00 Château_ gallery Co Co
Scott Tixier WORKSHOP /USA/ 09:00 Pub Hall U Draznych
Paul Giger Duo /CHE/ 13:30 Second stage Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary
Vít Nermut Duo /CZE/ 15:00 Second stage Dobrs Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary
Anna Romanovská Trio & Látalová /CZE/ 16:30 Outdoor stage - Chapel
Alexey Aslamas _SVA5 /CZE/ 18:00 Main stage Dobrs Château
Scott Tixier Duo  /USA, FRA19:30 Main stage Dobrs Château
Yilian Cañizares & Resilience Trio /CUB, CHE/ 21:00 Main stage Dobrs Château

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The Dobrš´s Recovery Association (hereinafter referred to as the Association) is a voluntary civic association whose purpose are educative and cultural activities in relation to Dobrš as an exceptional village location.

Association also raise funds for the projects, expert opinions and related documentation for the reconstruction, operation, repair and maintenance of the castle and fortress area, the other cultural monuments and other buildings and spaces in the village and its intravilan. The basic idea of operating and using this locality is to restore its social function and interconnection of its individual parts in order to create a space for coexistence of people of different interests, age, education and convictions, focusing on artistic activities, meeting, teaching, learning, sharing and alternative culture. This program will be implemented in the sense of the Government’s Architectural Heritage Rescue Program, with an emphasis on the authenticity and unmistakable context of the historical monuments, together with the search for a new current use of the castle area and its surroundings.

The Association has been expanding its operating range in terms of content and location for the second year now.  The Association’s activities are proven throughout years, yet they always bring something new  every time, annually attracting a wide array of famous artists, professional and amateur alike, in many  genres, and now they include a unique music festival whose specific focus (second to none even in the varied offer of music festivals) draws an entirely new type of visitors, musicians and fans to Dobrš in South Bohemia.

The festival project seeks to revive those roots and restore the traditional rural cultural and social customs; as part of the event, the former traditional pub surviving in its original guise is open and accessible, and as the former cultural centre of the community, it regains its purpose while getting a new, contemporary and attractive content, especially for the local citizens who sorely lack a venue for social events at present.The multi-spectrum activities targeting the widest possible audience seek and form the new cultural identity of the rural environment reflecting the needs of contemporary man in the 21st century in the European context.

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