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Pol'and'Rock Festival, the Glossary

Pol'and'Rock Festival, formerly known as Woodstock Festival Poland, (Polish: Przystanek Woodstock; "Woodstock Station"; English-language materials often referred to it simply to the Woodstock Festival Poland) is an annual free rock music festival in Poland, inspired by the Woodstock festival.^[1]

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1995 establishments in Poland
Culture of West Pomeranian Voivodeship
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Music festivals established in 1995
Music festivals in Poland
Rock festivals in Poland
Summer events in Poland

Acid Drinkers

Acid Drinkers are a Polish thrash metal band formed in September 1986 in Poznań.

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Adam Bodnar

Adam Piotr Bodnar (born 6 January 1977) is a Polish lawyer, educator, human rights activist and politician who currently serves as Minister of Justice.

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Agnieszka Holland

Agnieszka Holland (born 28 November 1948) is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema.

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Akurat

Akurat is a Polish band formed in November 1994 in Bielsko-Biała.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.

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Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Witold Wajda (6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016) was a Polish film and theatre director.

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Animal rights

Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all sentient animals have moral worth independent of their utility to humans, and that their most basic interests—such as avoiding suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings.

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Żary

Żary (Sorau, Žarow) is a town in western Poland with 37,502 inhabitants (2019), situated in the Lubusz Voivodeship since 1999.

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Bogusław Linda

Bogusław Linda (born 27 June 1952) is a Polish actor known from films such as Psy and Tato.

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Broczyno

Broczyno (Brotzen) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czaplinek, within Drawsko County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.

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Bronisław Komorowski

Bronisław Maria Komorowski (born 4 June 1952) is a Polish politician and historian who served as President of Poland from 2010 to 2015.

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Carrauntoohil

Carrauntoohil, Carrauntoohill or Carrantuohill (Corrán Tuathail, meaning "Tuathal's sickle") is the highest mountain in Ireland at.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Clawfinger

Clawfinger is a Swedish rap metal band formed in Stockholm in 1989.

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Closterkeller

Closterkeller is a Polish gothic rock band from Warsaw.

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Czaplinek

Czaplinek (Tempelburg; Czôplënkò) is a town in Drawsko County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with 7,012 inhabitants as of December 2021.

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Czymanowo

Czymanowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Gniewino, within Wejherowo County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.

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Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama is a title given by Altan Khan in 1578 AD at Yanghua Monastery to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Dąbie, Szczecin

Dąbie (Altdamm, or Stettin-Altdamm) is a former town and current municipal neighbourhood of the city of Szczecin in Poland, situated on the Płonia river, on the south coast of Dąbie Lake, on the right bank of Oder river, east of the Szczecin Old Town and Middle Town.

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Dżem

Dżem is a blues rock band formed in Tychy, Poland.

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Decapitated (band)

Decapitated is a Polish death metal band formed in Krosno in 1996.

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Dorota Masłowska

Dorota Masłowska (Polish pronunciation:; born 3 July 1983) is a Polish writer, playwright, columnist and journalist.

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Electronic music

Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Gentleman (musician)

Tilmann Otto (born 19 April 1974), better known by his stage name Gentleman, is a German reggae musician.

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Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity

The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (GOCC, Polish Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy, WOŚP) is the biggest, non-governmental, non-profit, charity organization in Poland raising money for pediatric and elderly care.

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Greenpeace

Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists.

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Guano Apes

Guano Apes are a German rock band formed in 1994 in Göttingen.

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Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.

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Helloween

Helloween is a German power metal band founded in 1984 in Hamburg by members of bands Iron Fist, Gentry, Second Hell and Powerfool.

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Hey (band)

Hey is a Polish rock band founded in Szczecin in 1991 by guitarist Piotr Banach and lead singer Kasia Nosowska.

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Ira (Polish band)

IRA is a Polish rock band formed in 1987 in Radom by Jakub Płucisz (guitar), Wojciech Owczarek (drums), Artur Gadowski (vocal, guitar), Dariusz Grudzień (bass) and Grzegorz Wawrzeńczuk (keyboards).

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Janusz Gajos

Janusz Gajos (born 23 September 1939) is a Polish film, television and theatre actor as well as pedagogue and photographer.

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Jarocin Festival

Jarocin Festival was one of the biggest and most important rock music festivals in 1980s Europe, by far the biggest festival of alternative music in the Warsaw Pact countries. Pol'and'Rock Festival and Jarocin Festival are music festivals in Poland and rock festivals in Poland.

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Jerzy Buzek

Jerzy Karol Buzek (born 3 July 1940) is a Polish politician and former Member of the European Parliament from Poland.

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Jerzy Owsiak

Jerzy Zbigniew Owsiak (Polish pronunciation:; born 6 October 1953) is a Polish journalist and social campaigner.

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Jerzy Stuhr

Jerzy Oskar Stuhr (18 April 1947 – 9 July 2024) was a Polish film and theatre actor.

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Joachim Gauck

Joachim Wilhelm Gauck (born 24 January 1940) is a German politician who served as President of Germany from 2012 to 2017.

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Joanna Kulig

Joanna Kulig (born 24 June 1982) is a Polish actress and singer.

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Judas Priest

Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band formed in Birmingham in 1969.

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Kaiser Chiefs

Kaiser Chiefs are an English indie rock band from Leeds who originally formed in 1996 as Runston Parva, before reforming as Parva in 2000, and releasing one studio album, 22, in 2003, before renaming and establishing themselves in their current name that same year.

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Kamil Bednarek

Kamil Bednarek (born 10 May 1991 in Brzeg) is a Polish reggae and dancehall vocalist, songwriter, composer and musician.

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Kontrust

Kontrust is an Austrian crossover band formed in 2001.

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Korpiklaani

Korpiklaani (Finnish for The Backwoods Clan) is a Finnish folk metal band from Lahti that was formerly known as Shamaani Duo and Shaman.

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Kostrzyn nad Odrą

Kostrzyn nad Odrą(translated literally as Kostrzyn upon the Oder;; Küstrin) is a town in Gorzów County, Lubusz Voivodeship in western Poland, on the border with Germany.

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Kuba Wojewódzki

Jakub Władysław "Kuba" Wojewódzki (born 2 August 1963), is a Polish journalist, TV personality, drummer, and comedian.

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Lębork

Lębork (Lãbòrg; Lauenburg in Pommern) is a town on the Łeba and Okalica rivers in the Gdańsk Pomerania region in northern Poland.

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Lech Wałęsa

Lech Wałęsa (born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the president of Poland between 1990 and 1995.

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Lessdress

Lessdress is a Polish glam metal / hard rock band originally formed under the name Ferrum in Warsaw in 1984.

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Leszek Balcerowicz

Leszek Henryk Balcerowicz (pronounced; born 19 January 1947) is a Polish economist, statesman, and Professor at Warsaw School of Economics.

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List of jam band music festivals

This is a list of jam band music festivals.

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Magdalena Środa

Magdalena Środa (née Magdalena Ciupak, b. January 7, 1957 in Warsaw) is a Polish feminist politician and philosopher, extraordinary professor of ethics at the University of Warsaw, and a feminist author.

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Makowice, West Pomeranian Voivodeship

Makowice (Mackfitz) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Płoty, within Gryfice County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland.

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Marek Belka

Marek Marian Belka (born 9 January 1952 in Lódź) is a Polish professor of economics and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Poland and Finance Minister of Poland in two governments.

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Marek Kondrat

Marek Tadeusz Kondrat (born 18 October 1950) is a former Polish TV, film and theatrical actor, director.

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Maria Peszek

Maria Teresa Peszek (born 9 September 1973) is a Polish singer, songwriter and actress.

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Michael Lang (producer)

Michael Scott Lang (December 11, 1944 – January 8, 2022) was an American concert promoter, producer, and artistic manager who was best known as a co-creator of the Woodstock Music & Art Festival in 1969.

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Myslovitz

Myslovitz is a Polish rock band.

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Nigel Kennedy

Nigel Kennedy (born 28 December 1956) is an English violinist and violist.

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Non-governmental organization

A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.

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Northern Exposure

Northern Exposure is an American comedy-drama television series about the eccentric residents of a fictional small town in Alaska, that ran on CBS from July 12, 1990, to July 26, 1995, with a total of 110 episodes.

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Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual.

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Papa Roach

Papa Roach is an American rock band from Vacaville, California, formed in 1993.

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Płoty

Płoty (Plathe an der Rega) is a town in Gryfice County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with 4,035 inhabitants (2010).

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Polish Humanitarian Action

The Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH, pl. Polska Akcja Humanitarna) is a Polish non-governmental organisation which operates in Poland and other countries.

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Polish language

Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.

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Punk rock subgenres

A number of overlapping punk rock subgenres have developed since the emergence of punk rock (often shortened to punk) in the mid-1970s.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Riverside (band)

Riverside are a Polish progressive rock band from Warsaw.

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Rock festival

A rock festival is an open-air rock concert featuring many different performers, typically spread over two or three days and having a campsite and other amenities and forms of entertainment provided at the venue.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Sabaton (band)

Sabaton is a Swedish power metal band from Falun.

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Shaggy (musician)

Orville Richard Burrell (born October 22, 1968), better known by his stage name Shaggy, is a Jamaican-American reggae recording artist who scored hits with the songs "It Wasn't Me", "Boombastic", "In the Summertime", "Oh Carolina", and "Angel".

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Skunk Anansie

Skunk Anansie is a British rock band whose members include Skin (lead vocals, guitar), Cass (bass, guitar, backing vocals), Ace (guitar, backing vocals) and Mark Richardson (drums and percussion).

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Szczecin

Szczecin (Stettin; Stettin; Sedinum or Stetinum) is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland.

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Szeligi, Warsaw West County

Szeligi is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ożarów Mazowiecki, within Warsaw West County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

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Szymon Hołownia

Szymon Franciszek Hołownia (Polish:; born 3 September 1976) is a Polish politician and television personality currently serving as Marshal of the Sejm since 13 November 2023.

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Tadeusz Mazowiecki

Tadeusz Mazowiecki (18 April 1927 – 28 October 2013) was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime minister since 1946, having held the post from 1989 to 1991.

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The Analogs

The Analogs are a Polish street punk band.

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The Prodigy

The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music band formed in Braintree, Essex, in 1990 by producer, keyboardist, and songwriter Liam Howlett.

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The Stranglers

The Stranglers are an English rock band.

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Ugly Kid Joe

Ugly Kid Joe is an American hard rock band from Isla Vista, California, formed in 1989.

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Urszula

Urszula is a given name.

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Włodek Pawlik

Włodek Pawlik, Włodzimierz Pawlik (born 4 October 1958 in Kielce) is a Polish composer and jazz pianist.

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Within Temptation

Within Temptation is a Dutch symphonic metal band founded in April 1996 by vocalist Sharon den Adel and guitarist Robert Westerholt.

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Wojciech Pszoniak

Wojciech Zygmunt Pszoniak (Polish:; 2 May 1942 – 19 October 2020) was a Polish film and theatre actor as well as theatre director and pedagogue.

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Woodstock

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, southwest of the town of Woodstock. Pol'and'Rock Festival and Woodstock are Free festivals.

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