Trebunie-Tutki, one of the best known Polish folk bands from Podhale (the Polish highlands), has been invited to India by the Polish Institute in New Dehli and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. Their first concert will take place at 6.30pm on 14th October at Kamani Auditorium in New Dehli. The festival will feature also bands from Hungary, Israel, Russia, Great Britain and India. A second performance is scheduled for 8.30pm on 15 October at the Centre for Environment Education Auditorium (CEE), Nehru Foundation in Ahmedabad.
Trebunie-Tutki is a family of musicians from Biały Dunajec, near the southern Polish resort town Zakopane. Trebunie-Tutki have evolved from an ordinary highlander band to an ensemble performing at the biggest world music festivals in Europe, Asia and North America without losing any of its characteristic nature. The band has appeared in the top ten of the European Broadcasting Union’s World Music Charts Europe, the only one from Poland to do so.
Using traditional instruments and the highlander music scale, Trebunie Tutki create new highlander music by developing the indigenous music and enriching it with new melodies, contemporary lyrics and avant-garde arrangements. They also eagerly experiment with other genres. What brought the band their greatest popularity was their collaboration with Jamaica’s The Twinkle Brothers, which resulted in a courageous fusion of reggae and traditional Polish highlander music. The leader of the band is Krzysztof Trebunia-Tutka, accompanied on stage by Anna Trebunia-Wyrostek, Jan Trebunia, Andrzej Polak, and Andrzej Wyrostek.
The band has collaborated, among others, with producer Włodzimierz Kleszcz, Adrian Sherwood’s bands, and Kyrgyzstan’s Ordo Sakhna, as well as the Polish musicians: Krzysztof Ścierański, Michał Kulenty, Krzysztof Herdź, Katarzyna Gertner, Warsaw Inter-University St. Ann's Choir, Voo Voo, and Włodzimierz Kiniorski’s projects.
Click here to visit the band’s website.
Source: press materials, trebunie.pl, ed. km, transl. szm, October 2014