Events in January 2008
New Year Fireworks
January 1, Monday, 0:15 AM, Kupkovo náměstí (Main Square)
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Dance
Dance ball season 2008
- TJ SOKOL Ball - January 11 (Friday), Hotel Holub, 8 PM 50 Kč
Music:
- Fire Brigade Ball - January 25 (Friday), Hotel Holub, 8 PM 50 Kč
Music: RELAX with Pavel Fulka
Evenings Illuminated by Candles - Fridays, Hotel Holub, 7 PM
Disco - Saturdays, Restaurant Jordánek, 9 PM
Theatre plays
OTESÁNEK (Hewed Boy)Puppet play for children
Ensemble Batole, director ...
January 13 (Sunday), Kodymův národní dům, 3 PM, 20 Kč
Aleš Palán: PROLETÁŘSKÉ HAIKU - Author's Reading
Preceded by Photo Exhibition (Jaroslav Hřebík - Hřebíček) and followed by Concert (Draga Banda)
January 19 (Saturday), Čajovna za stromem, 7 PM, Entry 80 Kč
JEDEN A JEDNA JSOU TŘI (Run For Your Wife) - Comedy by Ray Cooney
Ensemble SemTamFór from Slavičín, director Jan Julínek
January 20 (Sunday), Kodymův národní dům, 7 PM, 100/50 Kč
Concerts
DRAGA BANDA - wild music of the Balcans, Ireland and Scandinavia
Matěj Kolář - violin, bagpipes, didgeridoo, drum, harp, mbira, chomej, vocal;
Predrag Duronjič (BiH) - vocal, guitar, saz, kaval, mandolin, low whistle, brumle;
Michal Kulheim - saxophon, bombard, whistles, vocal;
Milan "Prdík" Tvrdík - djembe, darbuka, drum, percussion;
(Pavlína "Pája" Machová - accordion - not present in Opočno)
Matěj Kolář and his friend from Bosnia, Predrag Duronjič are founding members of the band DRAGA BANDA.
We play mostly traditional folk songs from our home lands - Czech, Moravian, Bosnian...BUT!
We have met on Irish music - so we are now also playing Brittony, Spanish, Slovakian...BUT!
We need not play these songs in orthodox traditional way - we like fusions and mixtures that means "World Music" for us.
Ireland, Brittony, Czech, Moravia, Slovakia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Tuva, Aborigins and Gypsies...
That’s no folklore. You just play with folk song with all your feelings, power, thruth and mistakes. Just now, just in this moment.
Music, based on ethnic, traditional or folk roots, leads into meditative and maybe even exstatic mass of instrumental noises.
Preceded by Photo Exhibition (Jaroslav Hřebík - Hřebíček) and Author's Reading (Aleš Palán)
January 19 (Saturday), Čajovna za stromem, 7 PM, Entry 80 Kč
Opočno School of Arts
Pupils sing and dance.
January 28 (Monday), Kodymův národní dům, 6 PM, Entry voluntary
Exhibitons
Jaroslav Hřebík - Hřebíček - Photo Exhibition
Followed by Author's Reading (Aleš Palán) and Concert (Draga Banda)
January 19 (Saturday), Čajovna za stromem, 7 PM, Entry 80 Kč
Dance ball season 2008
Aleš Palán: PROLETÁŘSKÉ HAIKU - Author's Reading
DRAGA BANDA - wild music of the Balcans, Ireland and Scandinavia
Jaroslav Hřebík - Hřebíček - Photo Exhibition