“Spring Will Return, Baronowo” — an evening with songs of “Kazik’s Dad”

About the event

On Saturday (25 April) the Białystok band Święci and musicians from the Poznań Quartet ProForma (known for collaborating with Kazik), who that evening will briefly return to their concert-entertainment activity, will perform on the same stage at Piwna Beczka. The occasion is an excellent one. Last year we celebrated the hundredth anniversary of Stanisław Staszewski’s birth, known as “Kazik’s Dad”. Meanwhile, an exhibition dedicated to Staszek was on display at the Warsaw Museum of Literature until 8 March. It seems that Stanisław Staszewski remains an undiscovered and little-known figure. Despite the great success of songs arranged in rock versions in the 1990s by the band KULT, his work remains in the shadow of poets contemporary with him. For several years, thanks to people engaged in popularizing Staszewski’s work, it has been possible to bring his complex figure closer. But to what extent is Stanisław Staszewski known? Has his work become only — as he himself used to say — “a bag for squeezing lard”? The concert performed by Przemysław Lembicz and Piotr Lembicz (musicians of Poznań’s Quartet ProForma, which suspended its activity in January) and violinist Emilia Pęgier will be an opportunity to recall Staszek’s most popular songs, such as “Celina”, “Baranek” or “Notoryczna narzeczona”, but also lesser-known ones — all seasoned with anecdotes about the circumstances of the songs’ creation and related to the Poet’s turbulent biography. The concert will be combined with the promotion of the recently published volume of the Poet’s collected works — there will be a possibility to buy the book on site. The concert will also feature the Białystok band Święci, which has in its repertoire a song to Stanisław Staszewski’s text titled “Klub Cynicznych Egoistów” and an original track about Staszek — “Piosenka o Tacie Kazika”. The band released an album last year, “Czarna Masa”, on which, among others, Kazik Staszewski and Przemysław Lembicz guested. Here are tracks to listen to: Święci feat Kazik Staszewski — Nasz dom: https://tinyurl.com/4w3k3ts3 Święci feat Przemysław Lembicz — Klub Cynicznych Egoistów: https://tinyurl.com/28mchshh Here the whole “Czarna Masa” to listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/3ydvpsbz And to buy on empik.com: https://tinyurl.com/b8km4zj8 or from the publisher: https://tinyurl.com/2kv3hz7s At the concert we play “for the hat”. We’re collecting for new strings.