Pohoda 2008 Around the Corner

This year's Pohoda music festival, will take place on the 18th and 19th of July at Trencin airport. Pohoda began in 1997 and is now Slovakia's largest open-air summer music festival. It also acts as a venue for theatre, literature workshops, classical music, and dance.

This year's festival features a wide variety of acts including bands from Slovakia and other countries in the region. International highlights this year include: Fatboy Slim, The Streets, Editors, Matthew Herbert Big Band, Unkle, The Wombats, Brazilian Girls, Mr. Oizo, The Gossip, and Joan Baez.

A special guest at Pohoda this year is former Czechoslovakian and Czech president Vaclav Havel, who will sign a collection of his essays to be published for the series Pohoda do knihovny (Peace of Mind in Library).

The town of Trencin is only an hour and a half drive away from Bratislava, so it's a great break away from the city for visitors and locals alike.

For more info, check out the Pohoda website