04/15/22

28th Pol’and’Rock Festival’s message: NO WAR


The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation shares details on the next edition of the Most Beautiful Festival of the World. There is also the announcement of the first band – the representatives of the French hard-core music – Tagada Jones.


The Most Beautiful Festival of the World changes its location again, but remains within the borders of the West Pomeranian region. This year the festival will be held between April 4-6, 2022 at the Czaplinek – Broczyno airport, ca. 7 km from Czaplinek.


Last year’s moving to a new destination in Makowice – Płoty and building the whole new festival infrastructure from scratch was the best proof that, if planned ahead, such event can be organised practically anywhere, also in the times of the pandemic.


Czaplinek-Broczyno – Pol’and’Rock Festival area, photo: Łuaksz Widziszowski


The festival will be open to everyone and free – there will be no entry tickets that were obligatory during the last year’s edition.


The event will be a form of a peaceful manifestation.


The very core of our Festival is based on people meeting in an atmosphere of peace, filled with friendship, kindness and tolerance. The Festival created a true community, a vibrant civic society, which enthusiastically welcomes all artists and is vocal in expressing their opinions. This year's edition of the festival is going to be genuinely exceptional. We are no longer holding a festival - let's all come together in a massive peace manifestation, a meeting of like-minded people who take a stance against the war. Let the world hear about our message - NO WAR! The writing on my T-shirt from 15 years ago seems dangerously up-to-date. Together with the artists, we will shout out loud – NO WAR! We are back to the form of an open and free festival. The area will be enclosed to vividly mark the land, leased to the Foundation. The gates around will be open to everyone who wants to join our Festival. Once we prepare the Festival’s map, that is the location of each and every element, we will be able to share the exact plan of the ground with the campsites, parking lots, music zones, food hauls, sanitary zones and Rock Camp. Please, keep in mind, that we are in a new spot and the organization of the Festival is determined by many circumstances – we must drill a water well, provide electricity, think of waste disposal, and post-festival cleanup in the area. Our new destination – Czaplinek – equals facing new challenges that we take as a lesson to build the Festival’s future editions. We do count on all the participants’ help and keep spreading our very promising Eco Initiative. We will kindly ask all festivalgoers to save water and clean after themselves. The Peace Patrol will maintain order, but just as it was in the previous editions, the festivalgoers will take care of the festival grounds themselves – they, unlike any other festival community, understand the idea and the message that was broadcasted for the past three decades. We will keep you up-to-date with the information on the train connections, functioning of the campsites and parking lots. The line-up is 90% ready and confirmed, however, as it was said earlier - we want to ensure wonderful music, and fantastic guests at the festival, but the most important element of this year’s festival will be us with our great message at full volume: NO WAR!  I believe that the words of our oath will once again build our piece of land: "This is my piece of land that I shall care for and respect. It is my home, filled with love, tolerance, brotherhood and friendship. So help me rock’n’roll, rock’n’roll, rock’n’roll!"
-Jurek Owsiak, Chairman of the Board of the GOCC

The first announcement of the line-up revealed that Tagada Jones, the representative of the French hardcore music, would play at the Festival.


Further announcements will follow every Monday during Jurek Owsiak’s programme “Zaraz Będzie Ciemno” on Antyradio.



Pol'and'Rock Festival & top 8 events making a positive impact in 2022

Pol'and'Rock Festival was listed by National Geographic among eight music festivals making a positive impact in 2022. 

Pol’and’Rock uses its mammoth platform to promote ideals of love and friendship, thus forging a refuge from some of the more conservative aspects of Polish society. One of the event’s traditions is unfolding a huge Polish flag over the main stage audience to show that everyone has a place underneath it.
-reads the article by Lisa Henderson, National Geographic

On 27th Pol’and’Rock Festival

27th Pol’and’Rock Festival was held between July 29-31, 2021. It was the first edition in the history with a limited number of people and entry tickets to cover the costs of the protective measures taken against the coronavirus pandemic. Moreover, it was the first edition held in a new place – within the area of the former military airport in Makowice (Płoty Gmina), where the Most Beautiful Festival in the World moved after 16 years of playing in Kostrzyn nad Odrą (Lubuskie Voivodeship).


The 27th Pol'and'Rock Festival took a hybrid form, which means that the festival-goers were everyone who also joined us online during the almost 50 hours of live streams! On-site there were nearly 25 thousand people (including those who purchased special entry tickets, local community, services and volunteers), while the event online was followed by hundreds. Facebook and YouTube channels alone were followed by 836 thousand viewers, who played the published materials 1 252 951 times, which technically means they spent at Pol’and’Rock Festival as many as 306 thousand hours or else… 12 750 days!

Anna Libertowska