The PIECUCHY Children and Youth Folk Ensemble from Nawojowa will be doing the honours concerned with the role of the Festival’s host ensemble this year. To paraphrase the Polish bard, we can say that “by age and by virtue of the office they deserve this honour...." By age - because in two years’ time the ensemble will be celebrating its 30th anniversary. By virtue of the office - because after all the ensemble from Nawojowa represents the Lach ethnographic group.
In their activity, the PIECUCHY ensemble are acutely aware of the mission they embraced the moment they were established in 1995. Into successive generations they have been sowing the seeds of not only traditional singing and dancing, but also of Christmas and Easter customs, as well as handicraft.
Thanks to their activity the memory of the Sącz Lach culture is sown. It would be difficult to list here all the competitions, festivals or contests attended by PIECUCHY. Let us only mention that they have already participated in the FESTIVAL OF THE CHILDREN OF MOUNTAINS four times.
The tradition of Maytime praying and singing at Marian wayside shrines will serve as the pretext and social background for this year’s main performance. BEFORE ATTENDING THE MAY DEVOTIONS, the musicians (young instrumentalists who were dancers in the ensemble until a few years ago) stopped, or rather will stop, to make children's ordinary workday more extraordinary. While the games and dances performed by our great-grandparents, when they were still kids, taught work and referred to work, they provided a respite from everyday toil.
And so we can expect such dances as KOWOL or SZEWC, as well as SZUROK and a number of POLKAS. At any rate, we can surely expect to see a child’s everyday life filled with hard work.
Thanks to their activity the memory of the Sącz Lach culture is sown. It would be difficult to list here all the competitions, festivals or contests attended by PIECUCHY. Let us only mention that they have already participated in the FESTIVAL OF THE CHILDREN OF MOUNTAINS four times.
The tradition of Maytime praying and singing at Marian wayside shrines will serve as the pretext and social background for this year’s main performance. BEFORE ATTENDING THE MAY DEVOTIONS, the musicians (young instrumentalists who were dancers in the ensemble until a few years ago) stopped, or rather will stop, to make children's ordinary workday more extraordinary. While the games and dances performed by our great-grandparents, when they were still kids, taught work and referred to work, they provided a respite from everyday toil.
And so we can expect such dances as KOWOL or SZEWC, as well as SZUROK and a number of POLKAS. At any rate, we can surely expect to see a child’s everyday life filled with hard work.