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Wernyhora is a unique folk band from Sanok. The exceptional music played by the group has brought Wernyhora numerous accolades and awards. In 2023, the band was nominated for the Best New Talent Award as Discovery of the Year by the European folk and world music festival UPBEAT platform. In 2021, Wernyhora won first place in the Folk Music Competition at the New Tradition Festival. In 2020, the band received both the Grand Prize and the Audience Award at the Mikołajki Folkowe Festival. The band’s two CDs, ‘Bojkowski głos Bieszczadu’ (2021) and ‘Toloka’ (2022), have each received second prizes in the Folk Phonogram of the Year Competition (2022, 2023). In their current musical explorations, the group mainly reaches towards the traditions of the Polish-Ukrainian borderland, especially music from the Boyko Region.
Between 2021 and 2023, the group performed on the most important folk and world music stages in Poland and abroad. These included the Rudolstadt Festival (DE), the World Music Festival Bratislava (SK), the Folkest International Folk Music Festival (IT), the Balkanik Festival (RO), the EthnoPort Festival in Poznań, and EtnoKraków Rozstaje in Kraków. At almost 70 concerts, the band’s music was enthusiastically received by listeners, enchanted by the beauty of the instrumental arrangements and the exceptional sensitivity of the Wernyhora vocalist.
The band has two albums to its credit, with the second CD released by Polish Radio as part of the Dwójka Polish Radio award at the New Tradition Festival. The albums mainly feature songs from the Boyko Region, which the band approached originally and uniquely. The latest album closes with the song ‘Żurba’, the band’s musical commentary on the ongoing war in Ukraine. The released albums have received critical acclaim from music critics in Poland and abroad.
Wernyhora is made up of three exceptional musicians:
Daria Kosiek – a singer with a unique voice and a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Her exceptional vocal skills earned her the Czesław Niemen Special Award at the New Tradition Festival (2021). She also won first prizes at the Sabałowe Bajania Polish Folklore Festival in Bukowina Tatrzańska (2019), the 56th National Festival of Folk Bands and Musicians in Kazimierz Dolny (2022), and a second prize in the 8th True Musicians Tournament (2022) in Szczecin.
Anna Oklejewicz – a multi-instrumentalist with a love of string instruments, plays in pagan metal and dark folk projects. She collaborates with the KSU band and, in Wernyhora, is responsible for string instruments, including the vielle and viola da gamba.
Maciej Harna – a hurdy-gurdy player, Wernyhora’s exceptional arranger, musicologist, educator, and creator (founder and composer) of the multi-instrumental One Mountain Orchestra Matragona. He collaborates with the bands KSU and Karpaton (Slovakia) and is a Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship holder. He is also the creator of the Open Art Workshop near Matragona.
Between 2021 and 2023, the group performed on the most important folk and world music stages in Poland and abroad. These included the Rudolstadt Festival (DE), the World Music Festival Bratislava (SK), the Folkest International Folk Music Festival (IT), the Balkanik Festival (RO), the EthnoPort Festival in Poznań, and EtnoKraków Rozstaje in Kraków. At almost 70 concerts, the band’s music was enthusiastically received by listeners, enchanted by the beauty of the instrumental arrangements and the exceptional sensitivity of the Wernyhora vocalist.
The band has two albums to its credit, with the second CD released by Polish Radio as part of the Dwójka Polish Radio award at the New Tradition Festival. The albums mainly feature songs from the Boyko Region, which the band approached originally and uniquely. The latest album closes with the song ‘Żurba’, the band’s musical commentary on the ongoing war in Ukraine. The released albums have received critical acclaim from music critics in Poland and abroad.
Wernyhora is made up of three exceptional musicians:
Daria Kosiek – a singer with a unique voice and a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Her exceptional vocal skills earned her the Czesław Niemen Special Award at the New Tradition Festival (2021). She also won first prizes at the Sabałowe Bajania Polish Folklore Festival in Bukowina Tatrzańska (2019), the 56th National Festival of Folk Bands and Musicians in Kazimierz Dolny (2022), and a second prize in the 8th True Musicians Tournament (2022) in Szczecin.
Anna Oklejewicz – a multi-instrumentalist with a love of string instruments, plays in pagan metal and dark folk projects. She collaborates with the KSU band and, in Wernyhora, is responsible for string instruments, including the vielle and viola da gamba.
Maciej Harna – a hurdy-gurdy player, Wernyhora’s exceptional arranger, musicologist, educator, and creator (founder and composer) of the multi-instrumental One Mountain Orchestra Matragona. He collaborates with the bands KSU and Karpaton (Slovakia) and is a Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship holder. He is also the creator of the Open Art Workshop near Matragona.
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