My brother Pepa plays saxophone in Big Bang Žerotín, and they had a concert last week in Jazz club in Olomouc. The first band was Jana Koubková who is actually quite famous singer and after them the biggest star of the night – Big Band Žerotín.

Jana Koubová

She was always singing with closed eyes

Pepa is preparing for the concert

Mira, the finishing the song…

Pepa and his while of the fame…

Tonda

Mira

Tonda is talking, talking, and talking…

As every year, in Olomouc holds the army music band festival – celebration of marshal Radecký (wikipedia article about marshal Radecký is here). This festival hosts 6 to 8 army bands from all around the Europe. As usually, there are comming guests from Austria, Belgium, Romania, Lithua, and two Czech orchestras – Representative orchestra of Czech Army from Prague and Olomouc army orchestra.

Austrians

There is always a funny actor that plays marshal Radecký. He always wears costume and a hat with green feather.

Actor

All orchestras together

Poles

Romanians

Belgians

Romanians

Romanians

Olomouc

Belgians

This is time, there is a really long time delayed post. It is from a music festival – Mezi ploty (Among the fences). It takes part in the hospital for mental diseases in the north of Prague. Beautiful area, beautiful girls, great music, what else can I wish? Just alcoholic beer… [-; Anyway, some pictures follow.

Panorama of the second stage

View on the church from the main stage

Someody on the main stage

In the afternoon, when we were listening at the second stage, there was quite heavy rain. So we were wet and cold at the end…

Bobík after the rain

Always full of people…

The smaller stage

Sto zvířat

I was there with Shama and Bobik, but as every year, I met my here friend Iva with her boyfriend.

Iva

Bobik and Shama

Vuřt Guláš

Shama eating Vuřt Guláš

One of the best things that day was Torr – metal band. Not because they are so good, but because the security let me go infornt of them, and take pictures.

One headbang, please

Photographer and singer’s boots

Some water for the fans

Who is the king?

Cheering the band at the end

Like every year, there is a celebration of Maršál Radecký, one of the best army generals of Austrian monarchy. The celebration are concerts of garrison bands. Bands came from Olomouc, Prague, Greece, Poland, Austria, Germany and Romania. We watched two small shows during the day, and some promenade concerts.

Polish army band

Polish army band

Austrian army band

Austrian army band

Greeks

Band from Olomouc

Garrison band from Prague

Romanian band

German garrison band

Germans marching out of the field

Promenade concert

Elvis

I like brewery open days. They bring so much inspiration to my ordinary life. The inspiration is not only alcoholic and hallucinogenic, but I can also meet lot of other ordinary, yet interesting people who are looking for a such inspiration as well. And thus I went this weekend to the brewery open day in Litovel.

Litovel is a town near Olomouc, and it has a great local brewery with the same name – Litovel (www.litovel.cz). So this brewery opened gates on sunday, and made an open day with lot of music, and lot of beer, of course [-;

They can’t let us only drink, so there was a lot of music as well. Significant bands were just two – Fleret with their 80 years old lead singer Jarmila Šuláková, and Buty.

Jirka must be beaten

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Elvis

František Straka

As the last band, there was some Bruce Willis revival from Uničov or how are they called. And they had awesome dancing girls.

Dancing and singing girls from local band