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1. Harmony time. First concertina players - field research by Andrzej Bieńkowski
Legendary concertina player from Łowicz, Leopold Talarowski with his son Jan. Czatolin 1960 [photo from author's archives]
2. Mety grają! Band from Glina - field research by Andrzej Bieńkowski
ra kapela metów. 1987

3-7. End of bases. Kraśnica. Opoczyńskie - field research by Andrzej Bieńkowski
3. Władysław Kosylak (violin player) and Stefan Watczyński (drums player) had created children band. Children from the neighbourhood have been learning how to dance with it. Brzustów 1942 [photo from author's archives]
4. Wedding guests and band of a violin player - Michał Wijata. Buczek 1942 [photo from author's archives]
5. Leon Głąbiński, with bases, wearing wig. Clowning as in wedding theaters.
Violin players (left: Tadeusz Skorupa, Rigth: Michał Wijata) anxious, stopped recordings. Dęborzeczka 1985
6. Władysław Koperkiewicz band from Buczek. 1986
7. Wedding in Bukowiec, near Kraśnica. 1985

8-12. Polesie Singing. Ukraine - field research by Andrzej Bieńkowski
8. Village at the end of the world, Saturday market, old women gather to sing. 2005
9. Kupała holiday, singing and dancing around the fire. Rokitne neighbourhood 2005
10. Women from ensemble of Maria Dub singing kupała songs. Recording around Brucz 2006
11. Walking Undines to the cemetry ritual, displaced people from Czarnobyl. 2005
12. Beautifull, dying village at the lake. Women gather to sing. Dubrowica area 2005