Popular Music of Czech Republic

The English speaking visitors listening to the Czech radio may be surprised at the occurrence of the familiar tunes, and with the song sung in Czech. These foreign pop standards apart from the rock and roll have taken over, often with the influences and instrumentations taken from more of the traditional Czech style.

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Currently, the Czech Republic has been a breeding ground of the punk, punk rock and metal bands and some of the include the brutal death, goregrind, black and similar patterns of extreme metal. The 1960s saw the American bluegrass music gain wide fame, and the first European festival were held in 1972 (the annual Banjo Jamboree in Kopidlno). In the year 1964 and 1982, Pete Seeger move around the country, inspiring generations of the Czech bluegrass and the American style folk musicians. One important instance of the band of Poutnici, whose early success helped preserve the bluegrass music in the Czech Republic. Many former members of the Poutnici have listed or toured with the band Druha Trava, and has brought the Czech bluegrass to the recent world music performance.