For this week I selected a song called "Vrať se" (Come Back) by Robert Krestan and his band Druha Trava (Second Grass). Probably not so many people outside of Czech Republic know this band. Which

I have always been playing "Greensleeves" in normal tuning . But about week or two ago I started to experiment and tried to figure out how to play it in DADGAD tuning, in which I play everything

This week I will sing a Czech folk song "A Te Rehradice". It's one of my favoured melodies. Simple but it has an interesting chord progression. The lyrics are quite simple - the old broken heart

Hello Steemians, for this week's entry I will present my new instrumental called Aruna. Actually I wanted to sing one song, but my voice is not really behaving properly this week. Not really a cold but

Hello Steamians! This week's entry for Open Mic will be song called "Ruh Le Gaya". It is an Indian folk song. I first heard it from Shujaat Khan and I loved it very much. So I've learned it in

This is a same song I put in this week's Open Mic contest. Here we play it with our "band" in India. Just for comparison. Oleg - mandola Asakti - vocal Stefan - drum

Hello Steamians, it's been some months since I made entry for Open Mic. I have been trekking and travelling in India and Nepal for an extended period of time. I played a lots of music there (except when

This is a clip from live performance on a rooftop of a house of our friend Stefan (who joined us on the drum). The musicians with me are Asakti on vocal, Oleg on mandola and Stefan on drum . We made a

I will play an old gospel tune called "I Am A Pilgrim" for this week's Open Mic.It's a song I used to play some years ago in normal tuning. Then I sort of forgot about it for a while but recently

Hello, next week I am flying to India, so I want to play an Indian song for this weeks Open Mic. It is a bhajan made on the poem of Kabir, the beloved rebel saint of Varanasi, who lived there in 15th century.

Long, long time ago I was suppose to meet some friends at the Calgary Airport. Their flight was delayed for many hours. I had my guitar with me and was playing some tunes in one quiet corner when some

My dear friends of Steemit community, this week I will play an instrumental piece called Almora. Almora is a place in the foothills of Himalayas. There is a ridge just few km above it, from where you have

This week's entry is Czech folk song "Smrti" I am accompanied by my friend Vítek, who is a fantastic guitar player. We actually didn't have much time for this. We were just jamming for couple

One day I was planting some trees in Czech Republic. Couple of my friends happened to go by with their kids. So I asked them to make a quick video of me working on their mobile phone. Just 30 seconds of

Once upon a time I was playing in a group called Yamuna with Ivo Sedláček (violin, viola and flutes) and Sujata Kimiko (vocal, tampura). Sometimes we played with a guest tabla player Emil Heyrovsky. We

Last 2 weeks I was in Montenegro. We were exploring mountain range called Prokletije in Serbian language. It means Accursed Mountains in English. Every day we would go up to one of the highest peaks around

This week I wanted to play a song "Oh No, Not I" by Canadian singer, guitar player and songwriter Stan Rogers. Many of his songs sound like Irish, Scottish or English traditional folk music.

This is a piece by Turlough O'Carolan - blind Irish harpist from end of 17th and beginning of 18th century. He wrote many beautiful compositions and songs and by some is considered Irish national composer.

This week's entry will be an original instrumental piece called "Bottle Street Green". Bottle Street Green is a place in south of England where this composition came into life. It's again in

"Mezi horami" is a Czech folk song. Simple melody, simple lyrics. What I like about this song is a possibility of playing with the dynamics. Then off course there is the challenge of transposing