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Artist's or Band's Name: jen svoboda

City & State: Prague

Country: Czech Republic

Music Genre(s):: urban folk

Bio:: 1995 went to buy a type-writer and bought his accordion in Zlín, CS
1996 - 2004 Brno (CS) pub and street performances -
pubs and bars: "Zahrada" , "U Čápa", "Desert", "Skleněná louka", "Mýdlo", "Spolek" and on the street: busking at Poštovská and Česká street. His first and most favourite Brno busking place - the "St. Johns Church (kostel svatých Janů)"
1997 Malta, busking in La Valetta
1998 Zlín, recording at a hotel reception (10 months)
1999 Trip to Ireland, busking in Galway
2000 Trip to Scotland - playing on the farm, writing, shooting a super8mm movie.
2003 Tom Vtípil asked JS to form a street band with him and Vlad Červenka (the band's name is U-Bahn Band later Urban Band and later Urband),
2003-2005 - As UBB JS played in a club called "Prostor" in Břeclav (recording LIVE CD), streets of Wien (AUT), Zürich (CH), Luzern (CH) near the Blueball Festival in the summer.
2005
-Peckafest with Urband
-club "Updull Ibn Carculah", Prague, In concert: Urband and Cyrilov (CH)
2006
club "Exit" in Prague, Zizkov: showing of JS super8mm movies and concert of JS and Urband.
2007
"Brána pekel" - 8mm projections of JS movies and his solo performance in Bechyně
Myšmaš Party - the last concert with Urband.
Luzern (CH) - Blueballs festival with a magician (Šeklin - Lukas Jasek)
2008 - playing and video recording often on the "snail" rock above Valley of Daleje in Prague
-Luzern (CH) with Secmazec (JS and two drummers from Zlín)
-Zürich (CH): Cabaret Voltaire - video recoding of JS songs
2009 - playing at straw-bale construction workshops in Hostišová near Zlín by the fire, in the rain, until the morning came.
-HFK Festival with OPUKA, MOIRE and JNMX Teta Jewa and co.
2010
-playing at Jan Mikulčík's (Jnmx) opening exhibition in Prague
-HFK in Hostišová: JS playing with Jnmx, Teta Jewa and Šeklin, the magician, with special guest Miloš Dvořáček on drums.
-playing "Šustí" at his wife's opening exhibition in Galerie Makráč in Prague
2011
-playing in Brno on the street (St. Johns Church) again after years.
-playing outside the pub "U Vajů" (Kudlov) at sunset.
-Playing in the fields, on the hills and rocks (around Prague and Zlín)
2011 New song and video POD LIPAMA recorded 100 meters from the place of birth in Zlin-Malenovice (CS)