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A bagpiper from the Żywiec Beskid Mountains
A bagpiper from the Żywiec Beskid Mountains
A bagpiper from the Żywiec Beskid Mountains
Credit: Jan Mehlich
Przemysław Ficek, the leading member of the folk band Fickowo Pokusa, plays the bagpipes during the 43rd Beskidy Mountain Folk Week of Culture, a festival promoting the culture and lifestyle of the Gorals, or mountain folk, of the Beskid Mountains along Poland's southern border. Ficek represents an ethnic group known as górale żywieccy, living in the Żywiec Beskids around the town of Żywiec.