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BeatIt report: Drums Fusion Festival 2024

BeatIt report: Drums Fusion Festival 2024

Drums Fusion is a festival with a long history, which (during over a dozen editions) has hosted such great artists as Urszula Dudziak, Cindy Blackman Santana, Ania Rusowicz, John H. Beck, John R. Beck, Richard Bona, Stewart Copeland, David...
BeatIt report: DrumFest Slovakia 2024

BeatIt report: DrumFest Slovakia 2024

On April 13, 2024, the 15th edition of the DrumFest Slovakia festival was held in the tiny Slovak town of Pezinok (not far from the country’s capital Bratislava). Courtesy of the GEWA company, we were able to participate in this event, which...
BeatIt Report: Silesia Drum Festival 2023

BeatIt Report: Silesia Drum Festival 2023

On Sunday, October 29, 2023, we witnessed yet another edition of the Silesia Drum Festival, which was organized, as in the previous years, by the Silesia Drum Store at the Chorzów Culture Center. The main attraction of this year’s edition...
BeatIt Report: Meinl Drum Festival 2023

BeatIt Report: Meinl Drum Festival 2023

There were several questions associated with the first post-pandemic edition of the Meinl Drum Festival. After all, it is common knowledge that the entire world economy was hit hard by the spread of the virus, let alone the music industry. As a...
James Stewart presents his drum kit

James Stewart presents his drum kit

Back in the old days, when hanging out with people was still legal, we went down to the U Bazyla club in Poznań, Poland, to see the Polish legends of Death Metal, Vader. As fans of the genre all over the world know, the man behind the drums for the...