Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:28:31 +0200https://english.radio.cz/singer-and-academic-katerina-garcia-spain-czech-republic-and-ireland-are-all-8291530© 2026 Radio Prague International One of the more interesting bands performing around the Czech Republic this summer are Kon Sira, who play traditional songs of the Sephardic Jews as well as Balkan music. The group’s Kateřina Garcia herself has an unusually interesting background: Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha was her great-grandfather, while one of her grandfathers was a Spanish Civil War veteran who fled to Russia. Kateřina has lived in Spain and here in the Czech Republic but is now based in Dublin, where she teaches at Trinity College. When we met, I first asked where her surname had come from. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/garcia_katerina.jpg?timestamp=1590769441 https://english.radio.cz/singer-and-academic-katerina-garcia-spain-czech-republic-and-ireland-are-all-8291530 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9