Skaldowie

Polish rock group formed in Summer 1965 in Cracow. Many of their compositions included references to folk music from the region the Polish Podhale region in the Tatra Mountains. References to classical music can also be found in their compositions.

Founding members:

Andrzej Zieli?ski - leader (the composer of most of their songs)
his younber brother Jacek Zieli?ski
Zygmunt Kaczmarski
Janusz Kaczmarski
Feliks Naglicki
Jerzy Tarsi?ski

The band was touring the USA when martial law was declared in Poland. With some of the members staying overseas and two others (Jacek Zieli?ski, Konrad Raty?ski) returning to Poland, the band was dissolved. It did not exist in the years 1982-87.

In spring 1987 Jacei Zieli?ski re-activated the band.

Members of the re-activated band:

Jacek Zieli?ski – vocals, violin, trumpet
Konrad Raty?ski – bass guitar, vocals
Jerzy Tarsi?ski – guitar, vocals
Wiktor Kierzkowski – percussion
Grzegorz Górkiewicz - keyboards (he used to play with Ewa Demarczyk)
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Andrzej Zieli?ski, since 1990

Skaldowie were rewarded the Polish medal for Merit to Culture, Gloria Artis.

Albums

Skaldowie (1967)
Wszystko mi mówi, ?e mnie kto? pokocha? (1968)
Ca?a jeste? w skowronkach (1969)
Od wschodu do zachodu s?o?ca (1970)
Ty (1970)
Wszystkim zakochanym (1972)
Krywa?, Krywa? (1973)
Szanujmy wspomnienia (1976)
Stworzenia ?wiata cz??? druga (1976)
Rezerwat mi?o?ci (1979)
Droga ludzi (1980)
Nie domykajmy drzwi (1989)
Po ?niegu, po kol?dzie (1994)
Podró? magiczna (1996)
Moje Betlejem (1997)
Harmonia ?wiata (2006)
Skaldowie dzieciom (2007)
Oddycha? i kocha? (2009)
Z biegiem lat (2010)

Albums issued abroad

Od wschodu do zachodu s?o?ca – Supraphon, Tchechoslovakia (1970)
Skaldowie Kraków – Amiga, former German Democratic Republic (1971)
Skaldy – Melodia, Soviet Union (1973)