A tune I wrote for our daughter. I first recorded it a year ago for Mandolin Mondays #173. This arrangement reflects how she’s changed during the year 🙂 Ondra KozákI’m a musician, organizer, and tutor who likes asking Why? and talking with clever people. You can learn about what I’m doing now here or … Read more
I know Peter Mečiar for years but this is the first time I hear him sing. Check out or cover of the Lonesome River Band song: I wrote about the first virtual project here. Ondra KozákI’m a musician, organizer, and tutor who likes asking Why? and talking with clever people. You can learn … Read more
We are long time friends with Peter Mečiar who helps me with our bluegrass workshops and with the program “Monthly Challenge“. We both also love Western swing. “Make a western swing record with Mečiar” has been on my Plans&Dreams list for a while. I love pedal steel guitar and Peter plays it so great! He … Read more
All my five brothers-in-law are talented musicians. The youngest one studies jazz guitar and due to closed schools, he had a long time at home. So he came to visit us on Maundy Thursday to have a little bluegrass jam. Here are two videos from it. Ondra KozákI’m a musician, organizer, and tutor who … Read more
In the “Bluegrass Beyond Borders” column of Bluegrass Today, Lee Zimmerman writes about my recent projects and gets my answers to his questions. Here’s his article Bluegrass Beyond Borders: Ondra Kozák makes his strings sing. Ondra KozákI’m a musician, organizer, and tutor who likes asking Why? and talking with clever people. You can learn about … Read more
Brian Dowdall and Andreas Schulz write about my project Overtones in British Bluegrass News and German journal Akustik Gitarre, respectively. Ondra KozákI’m a musician, organizer, and tutor who likes asking Why? and talking with clever people. You can learn about what I’m doing now here or from occasional e-mails (subscribe). Ondra Kozák www.ondrakozak.com
I’m very excited about the nice review of my album Overtones in the Bluegrass Unlimited magazine. It is a big reward for me. Ondra KozákI’m a musician, organizer, and tutor who likes asking Why? and talking with clever people. You can learn about what I’m doing now here or from occasional e-mails (subscribe). Ondra Kozák … Read more
Besides teaching at several workshops, I organized a few “guitar parties” this fall (workshop+concert+jam session). Here’s a video from Bratislava where I was joined by my guitar hero and a long-time friend Mišo Vavro. Ondra KozákI’m a musician, organizer, and tutor who likes asking Why? and talking with clever people. You can learn about what … Read more
I can’t wait to have my new home studio ready. Thanks to plenty of Rockwool and high ceiling it has good acoustics already (BTW, I organized a few house concerts there in the past). So I decided to record my new video there. It’s a song we used to play with Petr Brandejs Band but … Read more
The life of a freelance musician brings me long periods of work and short moments of relaxation and joy of achieving the goal. I am currently experiencing the second phase. The guitar album I’ve been preparing for the past year and a half has just been released. Its concept is described in the article published … Read more
My project Overtones – 12 Songs • 12 Vintage Guitars is not just about music. You will find photos and information on every song and guitar in the booklet. If you play guitar, you can even learn the songs from a TAB book. The graphic material is designed by Slávka Franclíková (by the way, a … Read more