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Don’t forget to check out our events for November 2008. Our list is growing every day and we recommend visiting this page frequently. CLICK HERE.

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Nezapomente se podivat na nase akce v listopadu 2008. Nas rejstrik akci roste kazdym dnem, a proto doporucujeme navstevovat tuto stranku opakovane. KLIKNETE ZDE.

Zapomneli jsme na vasi akci? Prosim, dejte nam vedet ZDE.

Our October calendar lists all activities for Czechs and Slovaks around the world. One of them is a concert of a Czech band called Plastic People of the Universe (PPU). We have to admit, at the time we were preparing our calendar of events, we did not know the band or its contribution to the freedom of all Czech and Slovak citizens.

A couple of days ago we decided to find articles about the band and to watch their video clips. What we found was great music and a remarkable life story of their pride and resistance to the Czechoslovakian Communist party.

The band was formed by bassist Milan Hlavsa right after the Soviet invasion on August 21^st, 1968 in attempts to stop the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia. The name was taken from Frank Zappa’s song entitled Plastic People. The same year Russians initiated a “normalization” program to reestablish moral and social behavior to make it more appropriate for a Communist country.

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Did we miss your event? Please, let us know.

We update our Events regularly; thus, for more recent updates, go to our page “Events (Akce)” or CLICK HERE.

Pro informace v CESTINE, kontaktujte CzechFolks (e-mail nebo komentar dole).

NOTE: Our Meetup Schedules are listed below. For more details about Czech Meetups CLICK HERE.

Concerts:

Jaromir Nohavica - details in October Schedule below

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Pro informace v CESTINE, kontaktujte CzechFolks (e-mail nebo komentar dole).

09/18/2008 and 09/19/2008 – Minnesota: Dozinky – Czech Harvest Festival

Time: 10 AM – 5 PM

Location: New Prague, Minnesota

More information HERE

09/18/2008 – New York: Czech New (Y) Dance!

Time: 7 PM

Location: Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73^rd Street, New York City

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Anna K is one of the recent shining stars of the Czech popular music. She was born in 1966 (4^th of January) in Spindleruv Mlyn and her real name was Lucianna Krecarova. Her first appearance in public was when she was just eight years old in a play Kytice. Her first alum called Ja Nezapominam (1993) was not very successful but she still sold over 20,000 copies. Her second album, Amulet (1995), was created together with P.B.CH (Wanastowi Vjecy) and Oskar Petr but it was still not a hit. Finally, her third album, called Nebe (1999), was nominated for three Grammies. Since then she won many Grammy awards, such as:

• - Singer of the Year (twice)
• - Album of the Year
• - Song of the Year
• - Video of the Year
• - Album Cover of the Year (twice)

For more information about Anna K on her webpage (click on “Hudba”), myspace or youtube.

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