Kapela Drewutnia

Polish Folk band.

Kapela Drewutnia consists of:

Olga Iwanicka - vocals, reco-reco (Brazilian scraper instrument), triangle
Anna Różycka - violin, Bilgoray suka (vertical folk fiddle), mandolin, mazanki (old Polish fiddle), vocals
Dariusz Banul - sądecki region basolia
Grzegorz Mazur - accordion
Piotr Michalski - sopilkas (Ukrainian fifes), volhynka (Belarusian bagpipes), gajdica (Slovak hornpipe), dzholomyga, fujara (Slovak shepherds' fipple flute), vocals
Dariusz Mikułowski - balalaika, domra, vocals
Mariusz Wołkowicz - guitar, mandola, mandolin, doshpuluur (long-necked Tuvan lute), vocals
Piotr Ziółek - Hutsul drum, tambourine, vocals, band management

They play compositions inspired by traditional music from the territories of the Second Polish Republic, where various cultures and traditions met and merged. Thus, their repertoire includes Lemko, Ukrainian and Rusnak pieces as well as songs from the Lubusz Land, Silesia or Małopolska...
Coming from different corners of Poland, we were united by shared musical interests and also by the unique atmosphere of the city that has become the group's permanent home: Lublin.
The aim of Kapela is to acquaint modern audiences with our own rendition of old-time folk songs and ditties. The instrumentarium of the band is made up of traditional instruments present in Polish folk music, such as the accordion, the drum, the clarinet, the mandola, the mandolin, the violin, the tambourine and others, used in the music of the regions whose culture we draw on: the Ukrainian sopilka, the Hutsul drum, the Russian volhynka or balalaikas.