Dikanda is a World Music band formed in Szczecin in 1997. In its almost thirty-year history, the band has released 8 albums, given about two thousand concerts from the USA to Bangladesh, from Sweden to Morocco and won many awards and honours.
Dikanda's concerts, focused on meeting and relating to the audience - are a fiery, emotional journey through sounds, places and feelings. They are constantly looking for new means of expression, drawing from musical encounters which result in unobvious, bold combinations and sounds, inspired by the music of the sources of the Balkans, the Middle East, the Carpathian Arc, but also Africa or the Orient, as well as everything that surrounds them. They express their universal message by drawing on traditional songs, but above all by creating their unique musical story, not only through sounds, but also through seemingly meaningless words - in an invented language of emotions and the heart - 'dikandish'.
The team consists of:
Anna Witczak-Czerniawska - vocal, accordion
Kasia Bogusz - singing
Dominik Bieńczycki - violin
Daniel Kaczmarczyk - percussion instruments
Piotr Rejdak - guitars
Grzegorz Kolbrecki - double bass
Szymon Bobrowski - trumpet