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Žitnoostrovský jarmok
Žitnoosrovský fair
Event by: FATS JAZZ BAND
Location: Dunajská Streda, Dunajská Streda
Concerts
About event
Dunajská Streda, known for its rich history and cultural traditions, comes to life every year in September thanks to the Žitno -Spark Fair. This year, the Žitnoosrovský fair will take place 17. To 20 September 2025.
Fats Jazz Band will play a concert on 17.9. At 17:00 h.
FREE ENTRY. It was founded by Ladislav Fančovič, one of the best contemporary Slovak pianists. The orchestra plays the original hot-jazz swing music that will bring you to another world, flow in you blood and return you to a period of refinement, elegant robes and hot parties. The early swing period is referred to as "Golden Age" in America because it was characterized by a huge boom of science and technology, as well as the film and entertainment industry. The music is somehow encoded a sense of euphoria of happiness and ease of being. Therefore, you have a unique opportunity to hear exactly the arrangements as they have recorded jazz legends in their time. Also, the reconstructed musical instruments, the period clothing and the overall manifestation of the orchestra are in full match with the period they represent. FJB also interprets songs of other jazz legends such as Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, Clarence Williams, Gene Krupa, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee and others. Also Slovak compositions - foxtrota and thong, which became famous for the doyén of Slovak popular music František Krištof Veselý, Viera Racková and Dr. Janko Blaho and Czech compositions from the repertoire of Inca Zemánková, Jiřina Salačová or R. A. Dvorský. At the Swing dinner in Liptovský Mikuláš there will also be a unique premiere of the new study of the song František Krištof Veselý "even if you burst, a dear friend." Its author and lyricist of popular songs Adalbert Hudec, among others curative signed in the form of an exhibition of Slovak artists at the Venetian Biennial 1942.
FATS MEMBERS JAZZ Band are professional top Slovak musicians and singers who work in the leading orchestras and Big Bands as Slovak Filharmon, Orchestra, Orchestra of the Slovak National. Theater, Gustav Brom Big Band, Matúš Jakabčic CZ-SK Big Band and Bratislava Hot Serenaders. Fats Jazz Band regularly performs in the Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Germany, France, Croatia, Italy, Denmark or Georgia and played at the most important European jazz festivals. Matejka: guitar, Banjo
Ľubomír Kamenský: TRÚBKA, Kornet
Patrik Fičor: Drum Tools
Branislav Belorid: Trombon href = "https://dunstreda.sk/"> https://dunstreda.sk/
Fats Jazz Band will play a concert on 17.9. At 17:00 h.
FREE ENTRY. It was founded by Ladislav Fančovič, one of the best contemporary Slovak pianists. The orchestra plays the original hot-jazz swing music that will bring you to another world, flow in you blood and return you to a period of refinement, elegant robes and hot parties. The early swing period is referred to as "Golden Age" in America because it was characterized by a huge boom of science and technology, as well as the film and entertainment industry. The music is somehow encoded a sense of euphoria of happiness and ease of being. Therefore, you have a unique opportunity to hear exactly the arrangements as they have recorded jazz legends in their time. Also, the reconstructed musical instruments, the period clothing and the overall manifestation of the orchestra are in full match with the period they represent. FJB also interprets songs of other jazz legends such as Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, Clarence Williams, Gene Krupa, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee and others. Also Slovak compositions - foxtrota and thong, which became famous for the doyén of Slovak popular music František Krištof Veselý, Viera Racková and Dr. Janko Blaho and Czech compositions from the repertoire of Inca Zemánková, Jiřina Salačová or R. A. Dvorský. At the Swing dinner in Liptovský Mikuláš there will also be a unique premiere of the new study of the song František Krištof Veselý "even if you burst, a dear friend." Its author and lyricist of popular songs Adalbert Hudec, among others curative signed in the form of an exhibition of Slovak artists at the Venetian Biennial 1942.
FATS MEMBERS JAZZ Band are professional top Slovak musicians and singers who work in the leading orchestras and Big Bands as Slovak Filharmon, Orchestra, Orchestra of the Slovak National. Theater, Gustav Brom Big Band, Matúš Jakabčic CZ-SK Big Band and Bratislava Hot Serenaders. Fats Jazz Band regularly performs in the Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Germany, France, Croatia, Italy, Denmark or Georgia and played at the most important European jazz festivals. Matejka: guitar, Banjo
Ľubomír Kamenský: TRÚBKA, Kornet
Patrik Fičor: Drum Tools
Branislav Belorid: Trombon href = "https://dunstreda.sk/"> https://dunstreda.sk/