Sąsiedzi

From the beginning of our activity, we have gone a long musical path, from fascination with contemporary sailing songs, through traditional “maritime folk”, including shanties – old seafaring songs of work, to folk music, mainly Celtic (Irish, Breton) and American folk music. We also draw inspiration from the native Silesian folklore and early music, successfully combining today various musical traditions – vocal and instrumental. Our strengths are well-sounding voices, rich, acoustic instruments as well as original songs and arrangements. We can play spontaneously and sing in a mood (in Polish, English, Russian and French). Over the years, we have developed our own, recognizable style, which we present at concerts in Poland and abroad, and on four of our albums.

Neighbors are regularly invited to major festivals, the so-called maritime folk in Poland, Europe and America. We are the only Polish band (and one of the few in the world) that performed at the most important ones: Białystok’s Kopyście, Łódź Kubryk, Wrocław Szantach w Wrocławiu, Gdańsk Szantach pod Żurawiem, Kraków Shanties, German Vegesack Maritime “, Dutch” Bie Daip “, Norwegian” Langesund “, Breton” Chant de Marin “, Norman” Traversées Tatihou “and the most prestigious” Sea Music Festival “at Mystic Seaport in the USA. Recently, we have also been noticed on the stage of author’s and poetry’s songs. Our music has appeared many times in the programs of Janusz Deblessem and Wojciech Ossowski on the Polish Radio 3, we also performed live on Radio Szczecin. We also pride ourselves on that we are so far the only representative of maritime folk who has received an invitation to the legendary Piwnica Pod Baranami in Krakow. There, too, on March 15, 2018, the premiere of our third album, “In the Pocket Dollar” took place.

The name of the band comes from the “U Sąsiada” pub in Gliwice, where we sang a lot during our student days, not only shanties. Our first repertoire was created there, from there we set off to “conquer” the Polish and foreign maritime folk scene. The first official concert took place in the Gliwice pub “Krypta” on October 16, 2001 We consider this date to be the official birth of the band. The name “Neighbors” appeared a week later, when we applied for our first festival competition.

We have won the most important awards of the sailing scene, incl. GRAND PRIX of the “Silesian Shanties 2001” festivals in Gliwice, “Raft 2001” in Katowice, “Szanty in Giżycko 2003”, “Szanty in Wrocław 2004” and the most important Krakow “Shanties 2008” (as the youngest group currently operating on the Polish scene the so-called “shanties”). But not the festival laurels, although we appreciate them very much, and the recognition of the public is our greatest success, and this has made us understand many times that they value what we do (Audience Awards: Festival “Kubryk” in Łódź – 2010 and 2017, Festival “Port of Labor Song” in Tychy – 2016).

From the beginning of our activity, we have gone a long musical path, from fascination with contemporary sailing songs, through traditional “maritime folk”, including shanties – old seafaring songs of work, to folk music, mainly Celtic (Irish, Breton) and American folk music. We also draw inspiration from the native Silesian folklore and early music, successfully combining today various musical traditions – vocal and instrumental. Our strengths are well-sounding voices, rich, acoustic instruments as well as original songs and arrangements. We can play spontaneously and sing in a mood (in Polish, English, Russian and French). Over the years, we have developed our own, recognizable style, which we present at concerts in Poland and abroad, and on four of our albums.

Neighbors are regularly invited to major festivals, the so-called maritime folk in Poland, Europe and America. We are the only Polish band (and one of the few in the world) that performed at the most important ones: Białystok’s Kopyście, Łódź Kubryk, Wrocław Szantach w Wrocławiu, Gdańsk Szantach pod Żurawiem, Kraków Shanties, German Vegesack Maritime “, Dutch” Bie Daip “, Norwegian” Langesund “, Breton” Chant de Marin “, Norman” Traversées Tatihou “and the most prestigious” Sea Music Festival “at Mystic Seaport in the USA. Recently, we have also been noticed on the stage of author’s and poetry’s songs. Our music has appeared many times in the programs of Janusz Deblessem and Wojciech Ossowski on the Polish Radio 3, we also performed live on Radio Szczecin. We also pride ourselves on that we are so far the only representative of maritime folk who has received an invitation to the legendary Piwnica Pod Baranami in Krakow. There, too, on March 15, 2018, the premiere of our third album, “In the Pocket Dollar” took place.

The name of the band comes from the “U Sąsiada” pub in Gliwice, where we sang a lot during our student days, not only shanties. Our first repertoire was created there, from there we set off to “conquer” the Polish and foreign maritime folk scene. The first official concert took place in the Gliwice pub “Krypta” on October 16, 2001 We consider this date to be the official birth of the band. The name “Neighbors” appeared a week later, when we applied for our first festival competition.

We have won the most important awards of the sailing scene, incl. GRAND PRIX of the “Silesian Shanties 2001” festivals in Gliwice, “Raft 2001” in Katowice, “Szanty in Giżycko 2003”, “Szanty in Wrocław 2004” and the most important Krakow “Shanties 2008” (as the youngest group currently operating on the Polish scene the so-called “shanties”). But not the festival laurels, although we appreciate them very much, and the recognition of the public is our greatest success, and this has made us understand many times that they value what we do (Audience Awards: Festival “Kubryk” in Łódź – 2010 and 2017, Festival “Port of Labor Song” in Tychy – 2016).

From the beginning of our activity, we have gone a long musical path, from fascination with contemporary sailing songs, through traditional “maritime folk”, including shanties – old seafaring songs of work, to folk music, mainly Celtic (Irish, Breton) and American folk music. We also draw inspiration from the native Silesian folklore and early music, successfully combining today various musical traditions – vocal and instrumental. Our strengths are well-sounding voices, rich, acoustic instruments as well as original songs and arrangements. We can play spontaneously and sing in a mood (in Polish, English, Russian and French). Over the years, we have developed our own, recognizable style, which we present at concerts in Poland and abroad, and on four of our albums.

Neighbors are regularly invited to major festivals, the so-called maritime folk in Poland, Europe and America. We are the only Polish band (and one of the few in the world) that performed at the most important ones: Białystok’s Kopyście, Łódź Kubryk, Wrocław Szantach w Wrocławiu, Gdańsk Szantach pod Żurawiem, Kraków Shanties, German Vegesack Maritime “, Dutch” Bie Daip “, Norwegian” Langesund “, Breton” Chant de Marin “, Norman” Traversées Tatihou “and the most prestigious” Sea Music Festival “at Mystic Seaport in the USA. Recently, we have also been noticed on the stage of author’s and poetry’s songs. Our music has appeared many times in the programs of Janusz Deblessem and Wojciech Ossowski on the Polish Radio 3, we also performed live on Radio Szczecin. We also pride ourselves on that we are so far the only representative of maritime folk who has received an invitation to the legendary Piwnica Pod Baranami in Krakow. There, too, on March 15, 2018, the premiere of our third album, “In the Pocket Dollar” took place.

The name of the band comes from the “U Sąsiada” pub in Gliwice, where we sang a lot during our student days, not only shanties. Our first repertoire was created there, from there we set off to “conquer” the Polish and foreign maritime folk scene. The first official concert took place in the Gliwice pub “Krypta” on October 16, 2001 We consider this date to be the official birth of the band. The name “Neighbors” appeared a week later, when we applied for our first festival competition.

We have won the most important awards of the sailing scene, incl. GRAND PRIX of the “Silesian Shanties 2001” festivals in Gliwice, “Raft 2001” in Katowice, “Szanty in Giżycko 2003”, “Szanty in Wrocław 2004” and the most important Krakow “Shanties 2008” (as the youngest group currently operating on the Polish scene the so-called “shanties”). But not the festival laurels, although we appreciate them very much, and the recognition of the public is our greatest success, and this has made us understand many times that they value what we do (Audience Awards: Festival “Kubryk” in Łódź – 2010 and 2017, Festival “Port of Labor Song” in Tychy – 2016).