Three generations of 'Cultural hooligans' honoured at music festival in Warsaw

According to Dariusz Gawin, assistant director of the Warsaw Rising Museum which co-organised the event, the five-day festival would focus on three waves of music: jazz of the 1930s, rock and roll of the 1960s and hip-hop of the 1990s.

He said some musical genres started as low-brow but became part of the upper-class of culture with time, adding that jazz, rock and roll and hip-hop, each in its own hey-day, gave rise to rebellion and social expression through the arts.

“The heart of Polish music beats in the capital so we wanted to show three generations of artists who co-created the Varsovian and Polish music scene,” Gawin said.

The Warsaw Rising Museum’s director Jan Ołdakowski said the festival would close with a performance by Polish and world jazz legend Michał Urbaniak, who was the only Pole to ever play with Miles Davis.

The festival, named after Polish Director Andrzej Wajda's 1960's film Innocent Sorcerers, will also feature dance lessons, a photography exhibition and culinary workshops.(vb)

Source: IAR