Ruky na dudy

Beskydy Mountains old time music

Ruky Na Dudy band

​- ​has been playing an archaic form of traditional music from the Lachian-Wallachian border region in the Moravian-Silesian Beskydy Mountains since 2004

-​uses archaic musical instruments such as different kinds of folk flutes, horns, monoxylic fiddles, bagpipes, small dulcimer

- ​has released 4 profile albums: Songs of the Hukvaldy Beskydy (2014), Song of the Earth (2019), Hands on the Shoes (2021), Happily and Merrily!

- ​she has participated in a number of scenic and trans-genre projects /appears e.g. on the albums Beránci a vlci (2016) and 11 PODOBOBOB LÁSKY (2020)

​​WHO WILL PLAY FOR YOU

Marian Friedl

vocals
 small dulcimer
 folk flutes
 sheperd horn

Vlastimil Bjaček

vocals
bagpipe

Petr Domčík

vocals
​viola accompaniment
​monoxylic fiddle accompaniment

Jiří Pospěch

vocals
violin
monoxylic fiddle

Lukáš Mrkva

vocals
​jingle stick
​ritual ax
​Jew´s harp

Martin Kocián

vocals
small bass

about us

Písně hukvaldských beskyd
2014

Hapilly and merilly
2021

Photo

Marian Friedl / ​bandleader

​It is dedicated to reviving the playing of forgotten instruments of the Beskydy, music production, music creation, popularization of folk music and improvisation. He performs on double bass, clarinet, folk flutes, bagpipes, kobza, small dulcimer and other instruments in genres ranging from classical music, folk music, world music and jazz.

His lifelong passion is the flute instruments of Wallachian shepherds, in which he found the forgotten sound of the Beskydy hills. Since the age of fifteen, he has gathered his experience in this field by visiting producers and players on the Czech-Slovak-Polish border, researching museum and private collections, listening to recordings, studying literature, and creating his own instruments and music.


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