WOWAKIN: Classic Tunes. New Energy. A concert as part of the 9th Festival of Revived Music

Sunday, August 23, 2026 7:00 p.m. Helena Majdaniec Summer Theater 2 Juliana Fałata St., Szczecin Season passes and tickets: www.redita.art Paula Kinaszewska – violinist, singer Bartłomiej Woźniak – composer, multi-instrumentalist Mateusz Wachowiak – accordionist, pianist Marta Maślanka – cymbalist, instrumentalist Kazimierz Nitkiewicz – trumpeter Nina Kodorska – vocalist The Festival of Restored Music is an event dedicated to music that, for various reasons, has disappeared from our concert halls, our memory, and our everyday cultural experience. We bring forgotten works, old performance traditions, unknown composers, and musical worlds back to life—worlds that for years remained hidden in archives, manuscripts, or local memory. Alongside rediscovered masterpieces, we also present artists who creatively develop old traditions and give them new meaning. Why Szczecin? The history of our city is a history of constant encounters, migrations, and the intermingling of cultures. Here, every kind of music can feel at home. We are kicking off this year’s edition with a concert by the band WoWaKin & Friends—artists who demonstrate in a unique way that reviving music doesn’t have to mean merely rediscovering forgotten notes in archives. During the concert, we’ll hear, among other things, songs prepared by the band for the hit Netflix series “1670,” as well as songs, dances, and melodies rooted in traditional folk culture. We get the impression that in recent years, fascination with the Polish countryside has been breaking all records. The stigma of the old “Cepelia” has been forgotten; the fascination with global culture is waning; it seems that once again, in search of what is valuable, we are reaching back to our roots, to nature, to a simple life guided by an uncomplicated philosophy. Much like Aniela Adamczewska, we are casting aside rigid conventions with relief to live life to the fullest. At last, we can clap when we truly enjoy something, dress casually, and stomp our feet! The music builds a panorama of authentic emotions, the lyrics bring out the weight and poetry of everyday life, and the distorted mirror in which we see ourselves allows us to look differently at our own, contemporary concerns as well.