JAZZ IN POLAND
Festival Network is new light over Polish jazz — 10 events, 27 artists, 8 months of one tour.
A SPARK FROM THE ASHES.
Polish jazz was concrete — a row of signed names, filled halls, the same venues as a decade ago. Beneath that concrete, something else rises. Something that doesn't ask permission.
Grzech Piotrowski and World Orchestra chose a different trajectory. Instead of a single festival — a network. Instead of a one-off gathering — an eight-month tour that starts in Gostomia and ends in Kąty Rybackie.
“The network is the product. The same artists circulating through successive stages build a shared sonic arc — one for the entire year.”
Amphitheaters, churches, open-air museums, mills, spas. Each venue different. The musicians the same. Buy one ticket — hear the entire season.
GRZECH PIOTROWSKI
World Orchestra · Artistic Director
Grzech Piotrowski is the common denominator of all ten editions. Drummer, arranger, artistic director — the man who decided the Polish jazz scene wouldn't end in a single hall once a year.
Together with World Orchestra, he is building a trajectory no one in Poland has attempted before: a tour instead of a festival, a network instead of an event, a season instead of a weekend. From the Baltic to Busko-Zdrój — same man, same sounds, a different sky each time.
Futurism and retro-70s. Star Wars and WALL-E. ORWO and turquoise. A spark from the ashes.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
NETWORK PRINCIPLES
SAME ARTISTS, DIFFERENT STAGES
The network effect. When the same musician plays Gostomia, Warsaw and Busko-Zdrój — each place becomes part of something bigger. Not a festival, but a tour. Not an event, but a movement.
FROM THE BALTIC TO BUSKO-ZDRÓJ
The geographic reach of the network is a deliberate choice. Jazz does not belong to one city. Kąty Rybackie, Rawa Mazowiecka, Gostomia, Warsaw — every place deserves New Light over Jazz.
MAY TO DECEMBER
Not one weekend. Eight months of commitment — a full, unbroken season. The network lives as long as the artistic year. A year-round commitment, not a one-off.