''Tribute to Václav Havel'' (Czech: Pocta Václavu Havlovi) was an event held in memory of

Václav Havel Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last List of presidents of Czechoslovakia, president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissol ...

, the last Czechoslovak and the first Czech President, writer, playwright and human rights activist. The concert took place in

Lucerna Music Bar Lucerna Music Bar is a music venue, concert club in Prague, Czech Republic. It is housed within Lucerna Palace. Lucerna Music Bar is one of the stages used in the Prague International Jazz Festival and the AghaRTA Prague Jazz Festival. It was u ...

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on 23 December 2011, five days after the death of Havel.

Main organisers of the event

* David Gaydečka (Manager of the Goe's Garage) * (Former Secretary to President

) * Jakub Mejdřický (PP Production) * Lubomír Schmidtmayer (Director of the Palace Akropolis) * Jindra Zemanová ( Meet Factory)

Stages

Lucerna Great Hall

Moderator: * 5:30 pm - * 6:30 pm -

Tata Bojs Tata Bojs is a Czech pop rock band, formed in 1988 by bass-player Mardoša and drummer/singer Milan Cais. The band plays electronic pop music. The band is famous for its creative lyrics and word play. The current line-up of the band includes gui ...

* 6:50 pm -

Dan Bárta Dan Bárta (born 14 December 1969 in Karlovy Vary) is a Czech rock singer. He's a founding member of Alice in 1990 (this band disbanded in 1997). Later he was a member of the short-lived band Sexy Dancers. He also released many solo albums and alb ...

and

Robert Balzar Robert Balzar (born 11 May 1962) is a Czech jazz bassist and composer who was born in Náchod. Robert Balzar studied bass at academy of music in Brno. After working with various groups, he founded ''Robert Balzar Trio'' in 1996. The collaboratio ...

* 7:00 pm -

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& Tony Ducháček * 7:45 pm -

David Koller David Koller (born 27 September 1960) is a Czech musician and record producer. Career Music Koller started his career in the early 1980s as the drummer of Jasná Páka and has also played in various other bands, including Žentour, Pusa, an ...

and

Ivan Král Ivan Král (12 May 1948 – 2 February 2020) was a Czech Americans, Czech-born American composer, filmmaker, guitarist, record producer, bassist, and singer-songwriter. He worked across genres including pop music, punk rock, garage rock, Rock mus ...

* 8:10 pm - Jasná Páka and Hudba Praha * 8:40 pm -

Radim Hladík Radim Hladík (13 December 1946 – 4 December 2016) was a Czech guitarist, composer and producer. He was known primarily for his trademark rock and jazz-fusion electric sound, although his early style was more blues-oriented, and Hladík also ...

and

Vladimír Mišík Vladimír Mišík (born 8 March 1947) is a Czech musician and politician. He is the founder or co-founder of the bands The Matadors, Matadors, Blue Effect, and Etc (band), Etc.... Career Music Mišík founded his first band, Uragán, as a teena ...

* 8:50 pm -

Štěpán Rak Štěpán Rak (born 8 August 1945) is a Czech classical guitarist and composer of Ukrainian origin. He is well known for the technical innovations that he uses in his compositions. Biography Štěpán Rak was born as Štěpán Slivka in Prague ...

* 8:55 pm - * 9:15 pm - , and * 9:30 pm - () * 9:45 pm -

Suzanne Vega Suzanne Nadine Vega ( Peck; born July 11, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter of Folk music, folk-inspired music. Vega's music career spans 40 years. In the mid-1980s and 1990s she released four singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the ...

* 9:50 pm -

and Jan Ponocný * 10:30 pm -

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* 11:10 pm -

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Revival Band * 11:30 pm - End of concert

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Moderator: * 6:00 pm - Máma Bubo * 6:40 pm -

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& Southern Cross * 7:30 pm -

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* 8:30 pm -

Toxique Toxique are a Czech musical group performing electronic pop music. History The group was founded by five graduates from Prague's Institute of Chemical Technology in early 2007, and the same year they played their first live show. Toxique's debut ...

* 9:35 pm -

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* 10:35 pm -

Lucerna Cinema

Documentary films: * President Václav Havel (Dir. V. Bojanovský, 1990) * President and Director (1996) * Havel to the Castle (Dir. P. Koutecký, 1998) * American in Prague or Partnership for Jazz (Dir. P. Koutecký, 1994) * "An American Tribute to Vaclav Havel and a Celebration of Democracy in Czechoslovakia" held in St. John the Divine, New York (Dir. Caroline Stoessinger, 1990) ;Live performance * Václav Havel: Garden Party - Theatre Divadlo na tahu, Dir. Andrej Krob

Lucerna Cinema Café

Photographs of Václav Havel
Curator: Kateřina Blažková-Bajzíková
Photographers: *

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* * Bohdan Holomíček * * * Oldřich Škácha

References

External links

Official website of concert

Documentary film on the event by Metropol TV with English subtitles

Prague Post: Painting the Town / Lucerna to host evening of tribute to Václav Havel
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