embassy events 2009

Tomasz Stańko Performs in Warsaw to Promote "Jam Session" and "American Dream" Exhibits

29 June 2009

Tomasz Stańko performs in Hoover Square in Warsaw. Photo by Zygmunt Druzbicki. (photo gallery)

Tomasz Stańko, the world-famous trumpeter, composer and Polish jazz ambassador, gave a special performance at Warsaw’s Hoover Square on Sunday, June 28 to promote two very special American exhibitions, announced Cultural Attaché, Chuck Ashley.  Stańko has frequently performed and recorded with American jazzmen all over the world and in the US at such legendary venues like Birdland in New York City, Blues Alley in Washington, DC, and Hothouse in Chicago to mention just a few. The concert and the two exhibitions it promoted are offered in celebration of the 90th anniversary of the establishment of U.S.-Polish diplomatic relations. Photos from the Hoover Square concert are available here. 

Jam Session will highlight how American jazz musicians shared a vital American form of expression with the rest of the world during the tense period of the Cold War and American Dream will present visions of America as seen through Polish eyes during that same period. Details:

Jam Session: America’s Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World
Skwer – Filia Centrum Artystycznego Fabryka Trzciny 
Krakowskie Przedmieście 60A – Skwer Hoovera, Warsaw
June 27- July 26, 2009
http://www.meridian.org/jazzambassadors/

American Dream
National Museum in Krakow
Main Building, Al. 3 Maja 1
July-October 2009
http://www.amerykanski-sen.pl/

The National Museum in Krakow and the US Embassy in Warsaw have jointly organized this concert with the generous financial support of the City of Warsaw and the Krakow Festival Office.

Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, President of Warsaw is the honorary patron of the exhibition and accompanying events.