Zdzisław Marczuk was a well-known folk musician from Zaklinki, a village located at the lubelskie, podlaskie and mazovieckie voivodeship border, near the border with Belarus. His private homemade recordings immortalized family celebrations and events such as baptism, New Year’s Eve, Christmas Eve, musician’s wedding and music that was a big part of those. The recordings are a way of getting to know life and versitality of the musical family and the artist himself – multiple times winner of Baszta (Grand Prix) during Folk Bands and Singers Festival in Kazimierz Dolny. Zdzisław Marczuk – folk accordion player, fiddler, drummer, trumpeter, folk and choir singer – was also a regional teacher. He was well aware of the need of preserving the repertoire as he knew it. Recordings on the reel tapes have been made from 70s to 90s. They’ve witnessed the time of transformation, but they are also the author’s „musical mirror”. Repertoire varies from traditional songs sung by the musician’s mother and old dance melodies performed by the family band on traditional instruments, through newer recordings of brass instruments and multi-vocal arrangements for a church choir (for the one Marczuk was a part of), to very contemporary pop songs, performed by the musician’s children on a synthesiser. Those are very important examples of how the musical focus changed among the Polish country dwellers.

Zdzisław Marczuk’s recordings have been digitalized and developed by Magdalena Bill-Kunce and Katarzyna Wińska within the Polish folk music – phonographic heritage project.