6.7 LIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL - Kolbuszowa

            Meetings bringing together authentic folk musicians from Podkarpacie have been held in Kolbuszowa since 2013. It is the "Festival of Live Music on Twelve Strings and Three Fiddlesticks" that attracts both mature and young performers of traditional music. They come not only from the Rzeszów region but also from Lesser Poland and the Lublin region. From the beginning, a large group of young people, passionate about playing authentic folk music and learning from the masters themselves, competed on a par with the older ones.

            Festival competitions are always preceded by seminars with experts in the traditional approach to folk music. Lectures on old music-making and contemporary folklore are delivered by both theoreticians and music practitioners. Musicians participating in the festival present an exceptionally high level. Therefore, the meeting of the best traditional musicians in Kolbuszowa is a qualifying round for the "National Festival of Folk Bands and Singers" in Kazimierz Dolny on the Vistula River and for "Sabałowe Bajania" in Bukowina Tatrzańska.