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Tomáš Kelar swaps tough UK music bizz climb with Mountaineers for mega (and tiny) crowds with Midi…
Musician Tomáš Kelar’s career began as drummer with the Welsh band Mountaineers, who rubbed shoulders with some big names when they signed to Mute Records. Now living back…
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Czech guitar great Radim Hladík looks back on 50 years in spotlight
Radim Hladík is regarded as one of the greatest Czech guitar players – if not the greatest – of the 1960s generation, the local equivalent of an Eric Clapton or Jeff Beck…
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Gary Lucas, Part 2: Bernstein, Beefheart and Buckley
The leading US guitar player Gary Lucas may be best known for his work with the cult musician and artist Captain Beefheart (real name Don Van Vliet). His biggest…
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Dagmar Andrtova Vonkova - guitarist, singer and songwriter who follows her own path
This week’s Sunday Music show profiles a respected name on the Czech music scene -Dagmar Andrtova Vonkova. A self-taught guitarist, singer and song writer Vonkova seeks…
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Marek Toman: The Special Meaning of Pancakes
The work of the novelist Marek Toman is diverse. It takes us from Jewish Prague in the 16th century all the way to the drama of the Velvet Revolution four hundred years…
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Jaroslav Foglar and his “Rapid Arrows”
Writer and youth movement activist Jaroslav Foglar left a deep trace in Czech popular culture. Besides more than 25 novels for children, Jaroslav Foglar is also the father…
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Czech TV to make local version of The Office
The hit BBC series The Office has been remade in many countries including the US, France Germany and even Chile. Last year, the first ever stage version of the comedy was…
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Czech art market most likely to hit a record this year
This year is shaping up to be the second record year in a row for art auction houses in the Czech Republic. Although no single painting surpassed the top selling price…
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Special: Tribute to Lubomír Dorůžka
Lubomír Dorůžka, who sadly died on Monday at the age of 89, was one of the all-time great Czech music writers. He started out during WWII, producing a clandestine magazine…
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Lou Reed tribute highlights links between Velvet Underground and Velvet Revolution
US musician Lou Reed, who died in October, is set to be remembered at a special tribute concert at Prague’s Archa Theatre on Wednesday featuring local acts such as the…
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Gary Lucas, Part I: The Czech connection
Much travelled musician Gary Lucas was in Prague last week to provide live accompaniment to a screening of the cult 1930s horror movie known as Spanish Dracula. Described…
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Theater performance helps single mothers find their own voice
The Czech family has changed in many ways in the past two decades, with new values and gender models entering the homes, and Communist-era mentality and standards partly…
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