One of the most interesting world music groups from Poland. They mixed many musical traditions. Beltaine has personalized its music giving it a fresh, original, catchy texture.
Its distinctive sound is the result of completely different members’ personalities and musical experiences meeting together. They are mainly inspired by broadly defined traditional music (world/celtic), but it just makes them follow their own path. They experiment and blur the boundaries between traditional folk music and contemporary one.
Beltaine was brought to life in 2002 in Katowice and it shaped up into a group of seven musicians. Its discography consists of four studio and two live albums. The live album was the result of the tour featuring the German harpist Jochen Vogel. Each of the studio albums have achieved the title of The Best Folk Album of the Year in the "Wirtualne Gęśle" voting, coorganized by Polish Radio S.A.
Since the very beginning Beltaine’ s concerts offered an exciting, vibrant, uplifting sound that has the audience enthralled all over the world. They’ve been touring Mexico, Malaysia, the USA, Canada; they regularly perform at the most important festivals in Europe.
Band:
Adam Romański – fiddle
Grzegorz Chudy – low whistle, vocal, accordion, bombard, bansuri
Łukasz Kulesza – acoustic guitar
Bartłomiej Dudek – bass guitar
Jan Kubek – tabla, cajon, djembe
Jan Gałczewski – irish bouzouki, electric guitar, galician bagpipes, bodhran
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