The year concluded with a concert on 21 December 2017 at St Thomas More Catholic church in Mt Maunganui. Performing were three professional musicians from Poland who are part of the six-strong folk cross-over group Tekla Klebetnica: Anna Adamowska (violin), Zygmunt Czupryn (accordion) and Stanislaw Dudek (double bass).
The band’s line-up depends on local circumstances. Sometimes they include local musicians. Sometimes, especially if the band travels, they perform as a trio because of logistical challenges due to size and weight of their instruments. One of their core team, Jenő Lisztes, plays the Hungarian cimbalom (dulcimer) – a huge and heavy, table-like instrument. Even the double bass, while not as heavy as the cimbalom, is too bulky for air travel and had to be sourced on loan from a Tauranga school.
Tekla Klebetnica means “country gossip” and was taken from the local Silesian dialect of the Cieszyn region. The band performs native folk music mostly from the Carpathian mountain range with an addition of a few Balkan melodies. This fusion of traditional folklore with elements of gypsy, classical and jazz music is called folk crossover.
The musicians started to play as a band in 2006, and regularly cooperate with various musicians and professional dancers. In 2013 the band skyrocketed to fame when they came in second at the "Mam Talent" TV show, the Polish version of the New Zealand's Got Talent show.
Tekla Klebetnica band gives around 250 concerts a year all over the world. In November/December 2017 they were touring Australia and New Zealand.
After their return to Poland Tekla Klebetnica sent a letter to their contacts in all places they had performed. To read the letter (in Polish), click here.
The band’s line-up depends on local circumstances. Sometimes they include local musicians. Sometimes, especially if the band travels, they perform as a trio because of logistical challenges due to size and weight of their instruments. One of their core team, Jenő Lisztes, plays the Hungarian cimbalom (dulcimer) – a huge and heavy, table-like instrument. Even the double bass, while not as heavy as the cimbalom, is too bulky for air travel and had to be sourced on loan from a Tauranga school.
Tekla Klebetnica means “country gossip” and was taken from the local Silesian dialect of the Cieszyn region. The band performs native folk music mostly from the Carpathian mountain range with an addition of a few Balkan melodies. This fusion of traditional folklore with elements of gypsy, classical and jazz music is called folk crossover.
The musicians started to play as a band in 2006, and regularly cooperate with various musicians and professional dancers. In 2013 the band skyrocketed to fame when they came in second at the "Mam Talent" TV show, the Polish version of the New Zealand's Got Talent show.
Tekla Klebetnica band gives around 250 concerts a year all over the world. In November/December 2017 they were touring Australia and New Zealand.
After their return to Poland Tekla Klebetnica sent a letter to their contacts in all places they had performed. To read the letter (in Polish), click here.
