The guests of the GOODFEST 2014 Festival, which will take place in Dębica in nine days only, will have the opportunity to see one of the first appearances of Dawid Podsiadło with his first band, Curly Heads. Moreover, the beginning of the Festival will be preceded by an experts’ discussion panel on the role of business in culture – the panel will be organised by the National Centre for Culture in cooperation with T.C. Dębica S.A. and Goodyear Dunlop Tires Polska Sp. z o.o.

This year’s festival will feature BRODKA, Kaliber 44, Dawid Podsiadło, KAMP!, BOKKA, Fismoll, Stara Rzeka, Rebeka, and Kari.

Surely, the major event of the Festival will be the performance of Dawid Podsiadło, who – for a part of the concert – will perform with his first band, The Curly Heads,. It will be one of their first concerts, during which the audience will hear a single promoting their fresh debut album, full of rock sound, artistic freedom and the recalcitrant vocal of Dawid Podsiadło. The album will be published in mid-October this year. Apart from Dawid Podsiadło, the band members are Tomasz Szuliński, Tomasz Skuta, Oskar Bała, and Damian Lis. Their music is sometimes referred to as very British – they sound like a combination of The Strokes with The Doors.



Even before the beginning of the third edition of GOODFEST, the National Centre for Culture, which is the patron of this year’s Festival, will conduct a discussion panel on the partnership between the culture and the business, without which a lot of artistic events would not have taken place. The guests who agreed to take part in the panel include Kazimierz Monkiewicz (Deputy Director of the National Center for Culture for Culture Development), Paweł Potoroczyn (Director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute), Piotr Rzeczycki (Universal Music Polska), Jerzy Kapuściński (Director of TVP2), and Radosław Bółkowski (Member of the Management Board of T.C. Dębica S.A., the representative of the organisers of the GOODFEST Festival, i.e. T.C. Dębica S.A. and Goodyear Dunlop Tires Polska Sp. z o.o.). The invitations to the discussion panel were distributed among journalists, representatives of state and local government institutions and of the business.

“The GOODFEST Festival is an important musical event for the Subcarpathia region and, at the same time, strongly marks its presence on the cultural map of Poland, and enjoys great recognition among critics of the music industry. There is no doubt that culture and business need each other. Even the most ambitious project will not exist without proper promotion and funding,” - said Jacek Pryczek, President of the Management Board of Goodyear Dunlop Tires Polska Sp. z o.o.

“It is natural that artists use the support of business, which understands how many talents and brilliant ideas Polish people have. Responsible approach to culture and business presented by both sides can bring a lot of positive effects. GOODFEST is an excellent example of that” - added Jacek Pryczek.



The artists of the GOODFEST Festival will appear in a unique visual setting prepared by brilliant graphic artists and multimedia technicians of Temporary Space Design. The previous projects implemented by this team include a lot of memorable events, for instance Sacrum Profanum, European Culture Congress, Barbican Centre in London or the Lincoln Centre in New York, as well as concerts of such stars as Jamiroquai and Wyclef Jean.

This year, the GOODFEST Festival will start on 30 August at 6.00 p.m. at the Dębica Stadium in Akademicka Street in Dębica. The concert will not finish before midnight. The catering area will be available to everyone.

Detailed information on the Festival is available at www.goodfest.pl and at our Facebook profile at https://www.facebook.com/Debica.Goodfest.

The partners of the GOODFEST Festival are: the National Centre for Culture, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Marshal’s Office of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, and the Dębica Town Council.