For organisers
Everything you need to promote a concert, in one place.
Photos
Print quality, free to use – we only ask that you credit the photographer, whose name is under each one.
- Stage plan Stage layout, microphones and monitorsDownload PDF
- Logo SVG and PNG, light and dark versionsDownload ZIP
Playlist for OSA
The list of works reported to OSA, the Czech collecting society, after the concert. The works and their authors are filled in – add the details of the event and download the finished PDF. It is our usual programme, and the works may change. The form is in Czech. For a concert outside the Czech Republic, your own society takes the setlist in its online portal, and this sheet lists every work with its composer and lyricist to copy from.
- Koncert 20 worksDownload PDF
- Na prahu Vánoc 23 worksDownload PDF
Biography
Use whatever suits you – you need not ask us to shorten or adapt it. If you do change it, we only ask that it stay true.
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Harafica is a cimbalom band from Uherské Hradiště. It grew up on the songs of the Dolňácko around Uherské Hradiště and went on to take in Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, its own writing and film music. Led by first violinist Martin Melichárek and cimbalom player Petr Gablas, it has recorded four albums, performed its Harafica Symphonic project with five orchestras and toured the United States three times. It plays concerts, festivals and celebrations, balls, weddings and village feasts, in concert halls from the Rudolfinum to the Besední dům in Brno as much as in rock clubs. Its name means one of the underskirts of a woman's folk costume in the Dolňácko, and in the Wallachian hills the state a person is in after a very good party.
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Harafica began in 1999 as a children's cimbalom band at the school of arts in Uherské Hradiště, under Pavel Štulír – first their teacher, later their friend. Since 2005 it has gone its own way under the name Harafica, which in the Dolňácko means one of the lowest underskirts of a woman's folk costume and in the Wallachian hills the state a person is in after a very good party – and neither meaning was unfamiliar to the musicians. It is led by first violinist Martin Melichárek and by artistic director Petr Gablas, cimbalom player and author of most of the arrangements. Its foundation is the songs of the Dolňácko, joined over the years by Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, original writing and film music.
The band has recorded four albums; the most recent is an illustrated Christmas songbook with a CD, featuring fifteen guest singers and narrators. With Petr Gablas's Harafica Symphonic it has played with five orchestras, from the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava to the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic. The #HaraficaTour concert series took it from Metro and Fléda in Brno through La Fabrika and Malostranská beseda in Prague to the Klub Mír back home. It has performed for Czech communities in the United States three times, most recently in Texas, where it played in a town called Moravia. At home you will find it at the Slovácko Wine Festival, at the Summer Film School, at the Rudolfinum and the Besední dům in Brno, and every Advent with its Na prahu Vánoc programme.