Maria W Horn & Sara Parkman - live @ Kostel U Salvátora, Prague [Alternativa Festival 2025] - 14.11.25

If you're going to have an alternative music night in a church, with limited toilet facilities and an over-functioning dry ice machine, then you had better book an act that can fill the space convincingly.  Enter Horn and Parkman, with their guitarist.

The band take the stage adorned in Eastern European folk costumes, before delivering a set of thundering bass (that makes the pews shake) and fiddle, with ethereal vocals that drift up to the ceiling high above.  The Kostel U Salvátora looks nothing short of stunning, and the acoustics are unreal, elevating the singer's voice into something choral and grand.

Amateur photographers crowd around me, straining to get a shot of the dynamic trio, who are working hard to conceal the fact that they're not doing much.  I remember none of the music, but their outfits look great.  The poetry interlude is cringe-inducing, before the bassist taps spacebar on her MacBook and the music begins once more.  The singer begins waving around a stick of Palo Santo in a theatric fashion.  I find myself wondering where the guitarist got his suit from.

People stand up at the end to applaud, as I push my way past the band on their way back to the front of the church for their curtain call.  As I leave, I see the queue for the single lavatory is undiminished.

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Event info:  https://www.alternativa-festival.cz/en/maria-w-horn-sara-parkman-funeral-folk

Bootleg:  https://www.alternativa-festival.cz/en/maria-w-horn-sara-parkman-funeral-folk