Vocals,Violin prim:

‍I think I'm a folklorist body and soul. I like violin, dulcimer band, singing, socializing with other folklorists and especially Wallachian dances.

And so it's no wonder that with the girls we sweep out of the music, any folklore event from Ostrava to Rožnov p. R and we always have a good party :-)

And something about me? I spent 8 years at the Vilém Petrželka Elementary Art School, VŠB TUO - Sports Management. I danced inensembles - Bebek (Lachia), Šmykňa (Slovakia), Moravia (Wallachia).I am the head of FS Morava and I cooperate with DFS Holúbek.
Now I am on maternity leave and I teach in a children's mini-kindergartenin Štramberk.

I like to participate in folklore events or we organize them ourselves - Wallachian Ball, Burning of Midsummer Fires. Come and see us :-)

Vocals, viola, dulcimer:
‍Hana Herberková or from a dancer to a musician… in other words folkloreis my life :) It is in my roots – my great-grandfather František Vozár was the chapelmaster of Vlčnovjanka, then my father sang and played in Duo Mirků... and mainly it was Folklore Ensemble of Ladislav Ševčík where I got to know not only the dance, folksongs, customs but also an excellent dancer and my future husband Vladimir with whom we then led this ensemble for many years.
After the renaming it to FS MORAVA /1997/ I led the „kids“ by myself and my husband took care of the bands /ŠAJTAR, CM IRŠAVA/.
As time went by, my daughters grew up, and I started to think about th ebeautiful instrument viola which became my passion and dance went into the background.
Due to health reasons I handed over the leadership of the ensemble to Venda Trčková/Šutová/ in October 2018.
We, 3 girls-dancers from FS Morava /Venda, Iva and I/, got together and here was the beginning of our band which has grown over the years and now is known as CM VESELKY.
The name was created by a funny story..."oh, look peasant woman in folk costume"...so instead of www.selky we combined cheerful peasants – VESELKY.
I am very grateful that I could learn the viola in CM Iršava, where my younger daughter Veronika played the dulcimer. Before she died/2013/, I thought - what about learning the dulcimer also.
Verunka was a great teacher so at least, in those 4 months, she devoted herself to me and I learnt a lot from her... then she told me, "Mommy, you're going to be the only one playing."
So I practice, play and enjoy playing with both music bands, Iršava and Veselky.

Vocals, viola:  

Zuzka Preisolová was born in Ostrava. I played viola in CM of ZUŠ Leoš Janáček and later in CM Šmykňa.

In my work I am engaged in hospice care. I like Slovak folklore and walks with Čips (three dogs) Hugo, Dača and Bíba.

Vocals, Double bass

I was born with folklore diapers, country of origin Slovakia and Hungary.

Realistically, dance folklore has accompanied me since I was 3 years old (kindergarten club, ensemble of Mrs. Bohumila Kratochvílová, FS Opavička, Silesian Song and Dance Ensemble of Helena Salichová).

In 1990 I moved to another genre of country dancing and clogging, and in 1997 I founded a successful country dance company Hazard – CDC in Ostrava, whose artistic and organizational director I was until 2020. I interrupted my membership in FS Morava in 1999-2000 with my return in 2015. Since 2018 I have been involved in leading the ensemble and dance rehearsals. In 2015, I also joined our music group as a bass player, although I originally graduated from the Music School in Ostrava-Poruba for 4 years of recorder and 7 years of flute.
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As an autodidact, I play the guitar, whose lower strings led me to playing the bass. Of the girls, I am the smallest, and that's why I play the biggest instrument, which with its deep tones best matches my alto to contralto voice.

Vocals, flute

Dance and music have accompanied me since my very childhood, when my parents enrolled me in the dance department at the Music School Bohumín at the age of 4.

I visited various classes there for 18 years and gained dance basics and rich practice in classical, folk and modern dance.
After this stage of life, for which I am extremely grateful, I started to get to know other dance styles such as zumba, flirt dance, belly dancing, poledance, antigravity yoga etc. Then my current husband, marriage and children came my way.

When my children were 1 year old, I was looking for new impulses into my life and fulfillment of "free time". In January 2022, my friend (and sister-in-law) lured me to dance trainings of the Folklore Ensemble Moravia and since then I have been part of this association.

Over the next few months, I understood that folklore is not only about dance (as I originally thought), but also about singing, music, lifestyle. Although I avoided singing, the girls from the ensemble supported me as much as possible and I could get on this folklore wave. To do this, I could dust off mine flute playing skills and it was done, the first rehearsals and then a performance with the CM Veselky.

We were introduced to the flute by the class teacher in the 1st grade and we formed a music class throughout the first grade. Music theory is not my strong point (the girls from CM Veselky will surely confirm it), but I am excited and hardworking, self-taught. I master the soprano and alto flute and thanks to CM Veselky I switched to the soprano flute.

Vocals

I jumped into this wonderful folklore group about 5 years ago, when it was literally a return to my roots.

As a member of the Folklore Ensemble Moravia, I began to soak up all the beauties of the folklore world - dances, bands, from folk costumes, songs, traditions to events.

I was brought up on Queens, I sang through my school years in various school ensembles, danced through puberty at discotheques, I traveled to adulthood and lived abroad for several years, getting to know other systems, culture and myself!

Home is home, in Podbeskydí how else and everything goes better with singing.

Hi there, I am Kája (but "hey you" is just fine) and even though I have lived in Ostrava all my life, I am originally from Znojmo- hence my love for wine, singing and tropical conditions.

As a little girl I dreamt about being a translator, so I went and studied English in business at the University of Ostrava. However, I found out that taming men and computers suits me better :)

I work in IT, at first I was telling my boys they are doing it wrong (tester), then I was instructing them how to do it right (analytic) and now I manage who will do what and for how much (project manager).And since, obviously, I have no self-preservation instinct, I have a husband, five kids and a cat at home to keep me busy.

Hi, I'm a woman in her prime. I like to dance and sing. I cook, of course. (Goulash is my favorite food). I play sports –swimming, volleyball and tennis. In the summer I sometimes go to the sea. In winter I don't disdain K2.

I like literature, I fall asleep with a book almost every night, if I'm not on duty. If there is time, cinema and theatre is my friend. I don't miss a concert of a good singer-songwriter like Jarek Nohavica. I like good quality red wine – I prefer the "André" brand.

I like to laugh and I like life in general.

Vocals

My path to our ensemble did not lead through art schools, but through random paths since my childhood. Despite the fact that I was born in Karviná, my blood origin has its origin in western Slovakia, near the Hungarian border. So it's not surprising that I've been gifted since I was a child temperament and musicality.

The beginnings of my singing "career" are connected with my grandmother on my mother's side, who taught me a lot of Hungarian songs. We sang together when I helped her with feeding her pets during the holidays, in the garden, in the floodplain forest on the banks of the Little The Danube, where a flock of our sheep grazed... Singing was part of my life later; I remember the timid attempts of my own accompaniment on the guitar, membership in the choir at elementary school, later during household chores and at the stove...

By a fateful coincidence, during a conversation with our neighbor, I found out that she was a member of the Morava folklore ensemble, where people dance and sing. After that, not much was missing; I decided to go and have a look and I stayed there, figuratively speaking. After years spent in the company, however, I realized that I should leave dancing to the younger, more flexible generation, but singing still entertained and fulfilled me.

That's why when I got an offer to join the CM Veselky, I did not hesitate and gladly accepted it.

started as a dancer in 1971 in the Mladí ensemble in Ostrava, in 1974 continued in the Ladislav Ševčík Ensemble. After passing the audition in 1977 for a period of basic military service, he joined the Army Military Ensemble of the Ministry of the Interior called Dunaj.

Throughout this time he was connected with the organisation in the above-mentioned groups. The logical consequence of this was the position of organizational manager from 1986 in the Ladislav Ševčík Ensemble, he was also a dancer and a choreographer there, that all until he was 40.Meanwhile, in 1995 he founded the International Dulcimer Festival in Valašské Meziříčí, which was under the artistic direction of Prof. Růžena Děcká.

With the Ladislav Ševčík Ensemble, he realized hundreds of performances in the Czech Republic – Strážnice, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm etc. He has also arranged productions abroad: Japan, Canada, Russia, China, Poland, Slovakia, Belgium, France, Denmark, Portugal, Sardinia, Romania, Italy.

In 1997 he founded the band Šajtar with Martin Gelnar and presented it at hundreds of productions in the Czech Republic and abroad: Ireland, England, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, China.

In 2003 he founded the band Iršava with Kateřina Bílá, which performed in the Czech Republic and abroad: Greece, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Slovakia, Switzerland, Poland, Ukraine, China.

In the meantime he started cooperation with Céline Bossu, 4Four Band, Oasis, Luky White, Tribute Rock Band. Currently he is starting to realize the Veselka project.

So much in brief.

Vladimír Herberk
+420 606 737 070
herberkv@gmail.com‍