Vlasta Grycová

Hradiště – with him and with Hradišťan she recorded her first profile album, the LP Písně moravsko-slovenského pomezí (Supraphon, 1985). In 1964 she married Josef Gryc (1940–2005); together they brought up two daughters. One of them, Anna Přikrylová (*1964) is a violin teacher (she taught e.g. many members of the Dulcimer Band Strýci with whom Vlasta Grycová recorded the album CM Strýci a Vlasta Grycová ze Strání in 1994). Together with her father, the violinist Josef Gryc, the daughters – violinist Veronika Přikrylová (*1986) and a bassist Helena Přikrylová (*1988) – they founded a family Dulcimer Band Husličky, where she continues in the family music tradition as a bandmaster until today. Vlasta Grycová recorded her second profile album with this band – the CD Pod Javorinú – Lidové písně ze Strání (Gnosis, 2003), which is her true singer’s portrait. She participated in many recordings by the Dulcimer Band Olšava (in-cluding Kytice z Uherskobrodska, 1998), starred in many TV shows (including. Zpívánky, Vonička z domova). In her native village of Květná she co-founded Women’s Choir with which she sang on her second album.
-Helena Bretfeldová-