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Right name spelling Ondřej Smeykal Ondrej Smeykal is a 31 year old Didgeridoo phenomenon from the Czech Republic, who has been playing for over 15 years. Until recently, Ondrej was quite unknown to the world Didgeridoo community. He started performing in the Czech Republic about ten years ago, teaming up with Australian Ian Wood, with whom he started the group Wooden Toys. It was during this cooperation that Ondrej’s philosophy of the instrument began to take shape, where he began to see the didgeridoo’s role as a rhythmical instrument with untapped potential. The more he played with other accompanying musicians,...

Ondřej Havelka (*10. october 1954, Prague) is the czech actor, film director, singer and dancer, frontman of the orchestra Ondřej Havelka a jeho Melody Makers, within he plays so much of songs and film music from interwar age of 20th century: jazz, boogie-blues, swing and other. At appearance and in clips he demonstrates dance figures and step. After graduation of dramatic art on DAMU in Prague he studied theather directing at JAMU. .

Czech swing and jazz orchestra of Ondřej Havelka with 20 musicians (15 instrumentalists and 5 soloists). Orchestra is using costumes, technics, instruments and also style of 20's-40's of 20th century. .

Ondřej Soukup (born on May 2, 1951 in Prague) graduated from the Prague National Conservatory in 1975. He has played in many jazz and pop groups (such as Pražský Bigband, Pražský výběr, Ladislav Štaidl Orchestra, Karel Gott Orchestra and with musician Jiří Stivín). Soukup has both written and arranged musical scores. After 1980 he devoted himself to composing, and he has since written many songs for several different vocalists. He has also started producing records. He has composed soundtracks for many short Czech and Slovak animated movies, and has worked with several TV stations, such as ZDF, ORF, etc. He...

Ondřej Pivec was born in 1984 in Brno, where he completed the seven year elementary music school curriculum in classical piano. In 1999 he moved to Prague and applied to the Summer Jazz Workshop, where he encountered jazz music under the tutelage of NajPonk, Kuba Stankiewicz, Michał Tokaj, Pavel Włosok and others. He was so taken with jazz that he attended another two summer workshops and put together his first quintet, Mantis, one year later. His first more significant engagement came in 2002 with Roman Pokorný and his band, thanks to which Pivec began to reorient himself from piano to...