About festival
The aristocratic family of Bavor had built its seat at the confluence of the Otava and Volyňka rivers in 13th century. This seat had changed into an impressive castle. Around this castle, Strakonice, called the city of bagpipers started to arise. The legend about bagpiper Švanda and bagpipe tradition of many years still kept by new young musicians make an atmosphere good for regular meetings of bagpipers, bagpipe music and dancers from many countries of the world. These meetings are held since 1967 and they are called International bagpipe festivals of Strakonice. It is one of the most important folklore festival in the world. It has the CIOFF status (Conseillnternational des Organizations de Festivals de Folklore et ďArts traditionnels, Statut B auprés de ľUNESCO) since 1995 and it has been a member of the international organization for folklore IOV (Comité international des Arts et Traditions populaires) since 1997. The festival is also the member of Folklore association of The Czech Republic, which is the most important folklore association in our country. Every festival is an opportunity for meetings and mutual understanding amongst the groups and individuals with original bagpipes, their reconstructions and replicas and with the other folk instruments. They play for dancing and also for listening. They make great atmosphere of the festival for the Czech and foreign visitors every second year. Fondness for tradition and folk connects both the visitors and the participants. Stakonice will welcome everyone who will visit the International bagpipe festival.
We are looking forward to seeing you!!
Preparatory committee of IBF 2010
Cultural centre of city Strakonice
Eva Dresslerová---------manageress of IBF
Dana Skoupilová---------secretary of IBF
Ing. Lenka Hůlková-----economist of IBF
Municipality of city Strakonice
Ing. Pavel Vondrys - Strakonice chief magistrate
PhDr. Ivana Říhová - Strakonice vice chief magistrate
Lucie Štěpánová
Josef Krček
Festival program council
Josef Režný
honorary program council head
Josef Krček
program council head
Eva Dresslerová
Zdeněk Bláha
Jaroslav Bašta
Zdeněk Vejvoda
Irena Novotná
Tomáš Stavěl
Josef Kuneš
Petr Suchopárek
Karel Krasnický
Zdeněk Tofel