In July and August, the Summer Festival of Trnava will dominate not only at the reconstructed Trnava Promenade (Korzo) but also Trojičné námestie (Holy Trinity Square), the City Amphitheatre and the relax zone Kamenný mlyn. In addition to concerts of the most various musical genres, dancing, singing and street theatre performances that towards each evening will liven up the new pedestrians zone  as part of the Summer on the Promenade programme, the traditional offer of cultural festivals and other events prepared by the city self-government will not be missing either. Everybody – from children to the seniors - will be able to choose to their liking. And for those who are eternally curious to know, regardless of their age, the favourite Wanderings through the Little Rome are prepared to discover a number of little known facts of the life and history of our city.

On Thursday, July 3, the official opening concert of the Czech Dreams 2014, a European project,  will take place in the Marianum concert  hall.  Josef Špaček, a top young violinist, was given the honour to play at this opening concert.

Warm summer evenings, chilled beer, and the best works of the Czech and Slovak film production – this irresistible triple combination is again brought by the Summer Bažant Cinematograph that, starting on Sunday, July 6, will gradually offer its fans  five movies in the open-air movie theatre.

In July, each Friday afternoon, parents and their children can take a walk to the Kamenný mlyn outdoor swimming pool not only to have a swim there but also to see some children theatre performances in the Amphitheatre. The same fairy tale performances will take place two hours later in the pedestrians zone.

Sunday afternoons are set aside for the Wanderings through the Little Rome, while Sunday evenings for traditional Promenade concerts of brass bands at the City Amphitheatre.

The fans of young, untraditional music and unconventional ideas will certainly be delighted by the fact that also this year, two July nights are devoted to the Proma Frajdej in the Sad Antona Bernoláka Park.

It will be the eleventh time this year that beginning August, we will use an international Trnava Jazz language,  Trnavský JAZZyk, to speak with stars of this genre. Shortly after that, the city Amphitheatre will host a special cultural event, the first one of this kind in Slovakia – two evenings will be devoted to a famous opera by Giuseppe Verdi, Giovanna d’Arco.

When speaking about the classical music, we must add that in Trnava, August is traditionally  the time of concerts of top organists who will sit at the precious Trnava historical organs to give concerts at the International Trnava Organ Festival.

In mid-August, the rule of the Trnava Summer Festival will be taken over by folklore when the 13th Trnava Gate International Festival will take place. During three days, the gates of our city will symbolically open to the folklore ensembles from the Visegrad Four countries. As always at the Trnava Gate Festival, also this year´s Festival programme includes top musicals. Now the Trnava citizens and visitors can look forward to the legendary musical about the best known highwayman,  Na skle maľované (Painted on the Glass), directed and choreographed by  Ján Ďurovčík, and the successful musical story about a forbidden love, Čiernobiely svet (Black-and-white World) performed by the Vranovčan folk group.

On August 31, we will say goodbye to this year´s Summer Festival at the concerts by Majko Spirit, Hex and others, but at the same time we can start to look forward to the Traditional Trnava Market, with the summer sun locked in the first burčiak, new half-fermented wine. The accompanying cultural programme mainly focuses on traditions of the important medieval market place.

JULY

July 4, 11, 18 and 25, 4:00 pm

THEATRES FOR CHILDREN AT THE KAMENNÝ MLYN

Street theatre performance for the youngest

July 3,  7:00 pm, the Marianum concert hall

CZECH DREAMS 2014

The official opening concert of the European project. About 120 concerts will be given by distinguished Czech musicians in nineteen European countries
Playing: Janáček Chamber Orchestra, with soloist Josef Špaček – one of the most notable world musicians of the young generation
For more information go to www.ceskesny.cz

July 6, 2:30 pm and 3:30 pm, at the Rotunda

Wanderings through the Little Rome:
REBIRTH OF THE SPIEGELSAAL ROTUNDA
(guiding in Slovak only)

July 6, 6:00 pm, in the City Amphitheatre

PROMENADE CONCERTS OF BRASS BAND 2014
Borovienka Krakovany

 

July 6 – 10, 9:30 pm,  Trojičné námestie Square

SUMMER BAŽANT CINEMATOGRAPH

Movie evenings in the open air – with the best works created by the Czech and Slovak film productions
July 6, Okresný prebor
July 7, Kandidát
July 8, Fair Play
July 9, Tigre v meste
July 10, eŠteBák

 

July 13, 3:30 pm, at the Town Hall

Wanderings through the Little Rome:
STREET NAMES IN THE PAST AND TODAY
(guiding in Slovak only)

 

July 13, 6:00 pm, the City Amphitheatre

PROMENADE CONCERTS OF BRASS BANDS 2014
Bojnice Band

 

July 18,  7:00 pm, Sad Antona Bernoláka Park

PROMA FRAJDEJ

Concerts of Trnava musicians and a number of interesting activities. Summer Friday night, good music, new horizons...
Landfil, OIT Band, Katarzia a jej frajeri.
„You throw your soul to the audience, and people accept it or chew it up as meat.“ Katarína Kubošiová, a daughter of actress and singer Eva Pavlíková, has only recently been brought to public notice. Already in her childhood, she enriched her artistic soul by experiences from the theatre world to which she would be brought, willy-nilly, by her mother. Her songs have a touch of nu-folk, and her lyrics are inspired by her own life. In addition to composing music, she studies film screenwriting. In a very short time, she has won  a lot of fans, which is confirmed also by the fact that her Mozgové sféry (Brain Spheres)  had been on the top of the Demovnica_FM charts for a long time.

 

July 20, 3:30 pm, at the Town Hall

Wanderings through the Little Rome:
A WALK THROUGH THE CENTURY ALONG HLAVNÁ ULICA STREET
(guiding in Slovak only)

 

July 20, 6:00 pm, the City Amphitheatre

PROMENADE CONCERTS OF BRASS BANDS  2014
Tatrachemka Trnava

 

July 25,  7:00 pm, Sad Antona Bernoláka Park

PROMA FRAJDEJ

Dreamfild, DEMO scéna, TRIOLA
Concerts of Trnava musicians and a number of interesting activities. Summer Friday night, good music, new horizons...

 

July 27, 3:30 pm, in front at the St. Nicholas Cathedral

Wanderings through the Little Rome:
HISTORICAL TRNAVA ORGANS
(guiding in Slovak only)

 

July 27, 6:00 pm, the City Amphitheatre

PROMENADE CONCERTS OF BRASS BANDS  2014
Bučkovanka from Nové mesto nad Váhom

 

AUGUST

August 1 and 2, 7:00 pm, the City Amphitheatre

TRNAVSKÝ JAZZyk
an international jazz open-air festival

Trnava is not only a city with its own specific - Trnava dialect,  but since 2004 it has had also another special language, the Trnavský JAZZyk (JAZZyk is a pun. Language in Slovak is jazyk) that is understandable to all the music lovers from both Slovakia and abroad.
RICHARD BONA, one of the greatest world musicians, a bass-guitarist, a singer and a composer, will be the top star of the 11th Trnavský JAZZyk Festival. Each of his previous concerts in Slovakia had one mistake – all of them were hopelessly sold out well in advance. His music includes elements of jazz, Brazilian music and African music. In Trnava, he will perform together with his band, THE RICHARD BONA QUINTET.

Members of the band: Richard Bona, bass (Cameroon), A.T.N. Stadwijk, keyboard (USA), Adam Stoler, guitar (USA), Tatum Greenblatt, trumpet (USA), Ludwig Afonso, drums (CUBA)
For more information go to: www.bonamusic.com

Other guests: Andrej Urminský International Quartet (SK/HU/GR/BRA), Bloom (SK), Radovan Tariška folklore to jazz  feat. Benito Gonzales (SK/CZ/VEN), Wlosok/Ševčík/Baroš Trio feat. Rick Margitza (CZ/SK/USA)...
Jazz, fusion, chill out, ethno, funk, soul, etc...

 

August 3, 3:30 pm, at the parking of the Kamenný mlyn outdoor swimming pool

Wanderings through the Little Rome:
THE ORTHODOX JEWISH CEMETERY
(guiding in Slovak only)

 

August 3, 6:00 pm, Hlavná ulica Street

PROMENADE CONCERTS OF BRASS BANDS  2014
Šarfianka from Blatné

 

August 6 and 9, 8:30 pm, the City Amphitheatre

Giuseppe Verdi: GIOVANNA D’ARCO

Viva Verdi, the first and only project of this kind in Slovakia brings opera Giovanna d’Arco to Trnava – a famous story about love, fighting spirit, determination and faith in God as well as in oneself, amplified by the atmosphere of summer night and music by immortal Giuseppe Verdi

 

August 10, 3:30 pm, at the Town Hall

Wanderings through the Little Rome:
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Trnava´s justice system and Trnava´s headsman
(guiding in Slovak only)

 

August 10, 6:00 pm, the City Amphitheatre

PROMENADE CONCERTS OF BRASS BANDS  2014
Križovianka from Križovany nad Dudváhom

 

August 12, o 20.30 h the City Amphitheatre

Giuseppe Verdi: GIOVANNA D’ARCO

Viva Verdi, the first and only project of this kind in Slovakia brings opera Giovanna d’Arco to Trnava – a famous story about love, fighting spirit, determination and faith in God as well as in oneself, amplified by the atmosphere of summer night and music by immortal Giuseppe Verdi

 

August 15, o 21.00 h the City Amphitheatre

NA SKLE MAĽOVANÉ (PAINTED ON THE GLASS)

the legendary musical about the most famous highwayman. Full of humour, dancing and popular songs, starring Janko Slezák. Directed and choreographed by Ján Ďurovčík

 

August 15, 16 and 17,  Trojičné námestie Square and Hlavná ulica Street

TRNAVA GATE

The 13th International Festival of Folk Ensembles, one of the most important events in Slovakia dedicated to presenting the folk culture 

 

August 16, 9:.30 pm, Hlavná ulica Street

BLACK-AND-WHITE WORLD

The story of a forbidden love, full of laugh and tears, as presented by the Vranovčan folk group, reflects the atmosphere of contrasts of day and night, light and darkness, joy and sadness, and life and death. And last but not least, it is also a picture of life of Gypsies and and Gadjos

 

August 17, 3:30 pm, at the Town Hall

Wanderings through the Little Rome:
THE ESTERHÁZYS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE TOWN
(guiding in Slovak only)

 

August 17, 6:00 pm, Trojičné námestie Square

PROMENADE CONCERTS OF BRASS BANDS  2014
Ištvánci Šardice, Czech Republic

 

August 24, 3:30 pm, at the main entrance of the railway station

Wanderings through the Little Rome:
TRNAVA RAILWAY YESTERDAY AND TODAY
(guiding in Slovak only)

 

August 24, 6:00 pm, the City Amphitheatre

PROMENADE CONCERTS OF BRASS BANDS  2014
Krásinka Dolná Súča

 

August 31, 3:30 pm, the Calvary

Wanderings through the Little Rome:
TRNAVA CALVARY
(guiding in Slovak only)

 

August 31, 6:00 pm, Hlavná ulica Street

PROMENADE CONCERTS OF BRASS BANDS  2014
„11“ from Ivánka, Ivánka pri Dunaji

 

August 31, 6:00 pm, the City Amphitheatre

GOODBYE TO SUMMER – at the concerts by Majk Spirit, Hex...

 

Programme subject to change.
Tickets for the Wanderings through the Little Rome can only be bought at TTI (The City Tower) from June 26. The number of tickets for each tour is limited.