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Dear friends of Meltingpot. We are very sorry, but this July we will not meet in person in the Dolní Vítkovice area. The 19th year of
the Colours of Ostrava festival, which we host every year, has had to be postponed to next year due to the coronavirus pandemic. See you on 14th - 17th July 2021.
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Simon Broughton (GBR)

journalist and filmmaker, editor in chief of Songlines magazine

 

Simon Broughton is a freelance journalist and film maker based in London. Since he first visited the Czech Republic as a student in 1978, he has often been back for radio, TV and journalism work - and for fun. He has written a lot about the music in Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania.

  He co-edited the Rough Guide to World Music (Penguin), which in its first edition in 1994, included the first popular guide to Czech folk music in English. He is now the world music critic More…