| Folk music in Poland varies widely from region to region and is closely associated with festivals and celebrations. Weddings, Christmas commemorations, and harvest festivals are all occasions for processions and songs. In most rural areas musicians are amateurs, picking up their instruments only after putting in a full day’s work in the fields. In this example, a group of rural musicians from the Rzeszów region of southeastern Poland play a polka on two violins, a clarinet, a contrabass, and a cymbaly (a hammer dulcimer that is played throughout Poland). |
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