A letter from the Pogladic Family Trio from Slovenia

First, please accept our warm greetings.

I learned of your organization thought the Slovenian Cultural Center in Lemont, IL, where we performed three years ago on New Year's Eve.  I have also visited your web site.  A little over a year ago,  we met Milan Ribic and I hope that he remembers us.  At this time, we would like to introduce our family band to you.  

With are a family  musical ensemble from Vojnik near Celje.  Our group consists of my father, Frank (diatonic accordion),my sister  Mojca (guitar, vocals) and myself, Milan (bass, guitar, clarinet, keyboards, and baritone vocals).   We all sing.  This year our group welcomed another member, Dani, who is replacing Mojca at the moment, as she is on maternity leave.  Due to his great vocals and playing, Dani will be staying on with our group.  We play national-pop (polka) and pop music, sing traditional folk songs and offer humor in our performances.  We have recorded and put out five independent projects which are well known among the Slovenian public.   During our 15 year activity, we have played abroad in Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and the United States.  We have been to the US three times, and performed at the Slovenian Parish in Fairfield, CT, and at the Slovenian Cultural Center in Lemont.    Recently, we returned from our third tour of Australia where we played around Sydney in December.  We have a lot of experience  performing abroad  and we always received great reviews.

More information about our band can found on our web site: www.trio-pogladic.com or on www.youtube.com (trio Pogladic).

I would imagine  that you receive many offers from performers who would like to play for the Cleveland Slovenian audience.  In the event that you may have some musical or cultural festival or any other performance opportunity this year, I  can guarantee good music and a great show by our group.

In hopes of future cooperation and friendship, best regards,

Milan Pogladic
Vojnik
February 23, 2009

Pozdravljeni, Slovenski rojaki !

Najprej prejmite prav prisrcne pozdrave od ansambla druzinski trio Pogladic iz Slovenije.

Za vaso uspesno organizacijo in aktivni klub sem izvedel od rojakov v Slovenskem kulturnem centru Lemont-Chicago, kjer smo pred 3.leti igrali pri njih na Silvestrovanju, ogledal pa sem si tudi vaso internetno stran. Pred dobrim letom dni smo se spoznali osebno tudi z g. Milanom Ribic in upam, da se me spominja. Sedaj pa bi se vam na kratko predstavili, da nas bolje spoznate.
Smo druzinski ansambel, ki prihajamo iz Vojnika pri Celju. V ansamblu igramo oce Franc na diatonicno harmoniko, sin Milan, (bariton, bas - kitara, klarinet, klaviature) ter hcerka Mojca, ki veselo igra na kitaro, vsi trije tudi pojemo. To leto smo pridobili se enega clana Danija,  ki trenutno  nadomesca naso Mojco zaradi porodniskega dopusta, bo pa zaradi dobrega vokala in igranja ostal v nasi zasedbi. Igramo narodno-zabavno in zabavno glasbo, zapojemo stare ljudske pesmi  in poskrbimo za humor, dokaz zato, da smo za vec mesecev naprej zasedeni je resnost in kvaliteta. Posneli in izdali smo tudi 5. lastnih projektov, ki so dobro poznani v slovenskih medijih in med publiko. Poleg igranja v nasi domovini, smo v nasem 15 letnem aktivnem delu preigrali ze veliko po tujini (Avstrija, Nemcija, Nizozemska, Svedska, 3 x USA-CT (Slovenska cerkev Fairfield), USA-IL (Slovenski kulturni center Lemont). Pred kratkim smo se tudi vrnili iz nase tretje turneje v Avstraliji, kjer smo pod okriljem Slovenskega drustva Sydney nastopali na vec mestih v decembru 2008. Imamo ze res dosti izkusenj z igranji v tujini in vsepovsod so bili odzivi zelo odmevni in dobri.

Vec o nasem ansamblu (turneje, video, slike,…)  si lahko ogledate na nasi spletni strani www.trio-pogladic.com    ali na www.youtube.com  (trio Pogladic).

Verjamem, da imate dosti ponudb ostalih glasbenih skupin, zato vam lahko kljub temu zagotavljam dobro glasbo in dober nastop nasega ansambla v slucaju, ce boste potrebovali glasbo za kaksen nastop oz. festival v letosnjem letu. Seveda se vam zato prav lepo tudi priporocamo.
V upanju na sodelovanju z Vami, vas vse prav lepo pozdravljam !

Milan Pogladic
V Vojniku, 23.2.09
Nasvidenje !