Hip Hop Kemp is the largest hip hop festival in the Central and Eastern Europe. Hip Hop Kemp is repeatedly included among the 50 best festivals in the world by CNN. It takes place at Festivalpark near Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. Every year over 20 thousand fans and rap stars from all over the world visit this feast of rap. Be part of it!
The prestigious international festival Jazz Goes to Town brings to the classical music concert halls and untraditional stages of Hradec Králové jazz in all its forms.
The dramaturgy of the festival features top local and foreign musicians, new jazz projects and beginning players. The 24nd edition wants to continue the high standards of this musical event and mediate the wide spectrum of jazz art to the city residents and visitors from outside. The diversity of jazz styles, the fusion with other artistic genres, and themed accompanying programmes are what make the autumn atmosphere in Hradec Králové so singular and enticing.
The festival programme is presented at various venues across the Hradec Králové city centre. In addition to concert halls, theatres and music clubs the performers will also appear in bars and cafés as well as in untraditional industrial or sacral venues.
Metronome festival Prague is international music festival, which takes place since 2016 annually on Prague Exhibition centre located in the wider city centre. Festival’s programme presents the most interesting international shows in combination with the very best from local Czech scene and connects various music generations and genres. Besides great music programme and excellent sound festival offers also amphitheatre with intimate atmosphere, high-quality food without queues, wifi and plenty of sitting space.
Since the first edition, which took place in 2016, Metronome festival Prague hosted such great music stars and acts as Sting, Kasabian, Gus Gus, The Chemical Brothers, Crystal Fighters, Faithless DJ set, Iggy Pop, John Cale, Massive Attack, Foals, The Kooks, David Byrne, Ella Eyre, The Pretty Things, Young Fathers, Walk of the Earth, DJ Solomun and many more.
From local Czech music scene, we would like to highlight for example Tata Bojs, David Koller, Monkey Business, JAR, Barbora Poláková, Ivan Král & Jiří Suchý, Richard Müller, Lenny, or Mydy Rabycad.
The festival has been spotting and highlighting foreign as well as local talent from the jazz and experimental scene since 2008 focusing mainly on contemporary jazz ((the name translates as The Youth Tune Jazz) and its bold crossovers to other genres. As well as concerts, it organises the Jazzfruit competition for young jazz bands, the jazz workshops for children, specialist workshops for musicians and the year-round Jazzbit club series.