The third year of the Czechoslovak Beat Festival is taking place in Prague today
Update: 16/10/2022 07:30
Issued by: 16/10/2022, 07:30
Prague – In the Great Hall of the Prague Lantern, the third year of the renewed Czechoslovak beat festival, whose organization was disrupted two years ago by the coronavirus pandemic, is taking place today. The highlight of the festival will be the performance of Michal Prokop, who was evaluated as the best singer at the 1st Czechoslovak beat-festival. The conclusion will belong to The Primitives Group.
Rock and roll singer Pavel Sedláček and his members Cadillac, Brno’s Synkopy 61, who are celebrating the symbolic 61 years since their founding this year, or the Flamengo reunion session group, who are celebrating 50 years since the release of the seminal record of the domestic big hit Chicken in the Clock, will also perform in Lucerne. Pavol Hammel and his band Prúdy will arrive from Bratislava.
The memory of the musical 80s of the last century will be the group Precedens associated with the musician, composer, painter and writer Martin Němec. For example, Bára Basiková and Petr Kolář passed through the group. Today, Precedens offers a concert project led by the voice of singer Ivy Marešová. “Precedence is the youngest of the performing bands, the group was a phenomenon only in the eighties, but today they already belong to the legends and undoubtedly belong to Lucerna,” said event organizer Ivan Rössler.
The first Czechoslovak beat-festival was held in December 1967. The atmosphere of the second edition in December 1968 was marked by the August occupation by Warsaw Pact troops, although no political protests took place there. The Prague Beat Festival in April 1971 was influenced by normalization, it was already carried out under the supervision of the Socialist Youth Union.
After 1989, several events took place that tried to continue the former Czechoslovak beat festivals. For example, in 1992, the Prague Rock Days were held in the nostalgic atmosphere of Lucerna, and later fans of big beat appeared here again at the Czechoslovak Beatfest. The tradition of festivals from the turn of the 60s and 70s was followed by the renewed Czechoslovak Beat Festival in December 2018.