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Ponk goes to Womex

So, we can finally share some amazing news with you! We are proud and happy to announce that WOMEX expert jury have chosen us to play at the world´s biggest world music event! Ponk will be the only band from Central Europe, and the third Czech band in whole history, to play at World Music Expo (WOMEX) in Santiago de Compostela in October 2016.
The showcase & conference WOMEX is aimed mainly at music professionals. This means that we are going to play in front is several thousands of journalists, festival managers, promoters and label representatives.
We are so happy!

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Album Postfolkor, 2015

Buy our prize-winning album Postfolklor which has been awarded “Czech Grammy” Anděl award for the best world music record 2015. It has received positive reviews from all over the world. It was featured in Top 20 World Music Charts Europe and played by radio stations in Germany, France, Connecticut and Alaska. Buy CD.

We’ve got the Andel Award (Czech Grammy)!

We are happy to announce that the Czech Academy of Popular music awarded our album Postfolklor the best world music record of 2015.

We would like to thank all those who have been helping us to make this dream come true. We were a new, unknown band, and you still supported us because you believed in our work. Thanks to you, we can make good music without compromise. Thank you, we are so grateful. Watch the live programme here.

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Photo: Jakub, Michal and Ecson Waldes (mastering engineer)