Promoter at Roxy (Prague) and Heartnoize Promotion, journalist of Full Moon Magazine
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Marie Čtveráčková aka Mary C is a moderator at Radio Wave, journalist and coordinator of many projects - Kreaton, Czeching and others.
Founder, booker and fundraiser of the Karlovy Vary music festival Top RoofTop fest, founder of Wild Delfino Booking, booking agent of The Wild Roots and Seventh Passion, editor of Frontman.cz, Muzikantiakapely.cz and Plzenskekapely.cz, moderator of the Zkušebny program on MVTV.cz. PR and social media manager AMPromotions.
He has spent most of the last twelve years on the Prague club scene, where he has organized hundreds of events, co-founded the Žižkov Night Club and the anti-fascist open air festival Riot Over River. He used to be a band manager and booked Czech tours for foreign performers, currently he is booking concerts for the Holešovice Cross Club. It emphasizes varied dramaturgy, cooperation, reciprocity and cooperation instead of competition, regardless of the genre or origin of the band. An important criterion not only in music is overlap and message.
He’s been compiling the radio show Hudba na pomezí (Borderland Music) for the Vltava station at Czech Radio since 1988. Petr was a member of the jury at the Sajanskoje kolco festival in Siberia between 2003 and 2005 and was appointed as one of 7 Samurais at the Womex Fair in 2007. He has been the only Czech member of the radio panel for the World Music Charts Europe since 1992 and has been lecturing World Music Culture at the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University since 2002.
He’s been writing about music since the ’60s, is the author of the biography Šuplík plný Zappy (a drawer full of Zappa), having compiled and contributed to the Hudba na pomezí anthology while also contributed to the book Beaty Bigbeaty Breakbeaty (Beats, Bigbeats Breakbeats). He regularly writes for the magazines Rock & Pop and UNI. He runs the website kenhunt.doruzka.com together with his London-based colleague, Ken Hunt.
Since 2013, he has been the editor-in-chief of the online music magazine musicweb.cz, where he also started as an editor. Previously, he contributed articles for the web magazine topzine.cz. In music, he focuses mainly on jazz fusion, but he also loves rock music from art-rock to hard rock. All his life he has been fascinated by the work of composer Frank Zappa.
He worked in the Municipal Library in Prague, is a co-founder of the magazine HIS Voice and since 2015 editor-in-chief, writes for A2, Aktuálně, ČRo - Wave, Full Moon, Lidové noviny, Salon Práva, etc.
Organizer of Mladí ladí jazz festival and international jazz competition Jazzfruit for young musicians