Milan Tisoň

In the morning we ring at the folklore and singer Jozhka Hromník. We’ll catch him in the office, drill around the house. He hasn’t bloated anything, he doesn’t know who to write the award to. Luckily, next door is Milan’s neighbor and Joseph’s eyes light up. As long as my colleague Janka’s help goes to get the award ready, I’ll talk to Mr. Neighbor. He asks about the Trenčín project and listens with interest to our valuation experiences. Janka and Joseph will bring an award, we will wear a tartar, and the festive garden ceremony will begin in a very cheerful spirit.

The award-winning Milan Tison comes from Puchovska valley. He’s a trained engineer. Like Joseph, he ended up as a high school teacher at the Construction and Career Company. At first we think he’s a carpenter, because behind his house he has a very skillful roof over a garden grill. Milan is Joseph’s partner in singing and folklore. It works in two different choirs, in Sihotiar and Odevak. He’s been playing heligon since he was a boy. He’s already spent his keys on third. Not long to beg, run to the house for a tool, and immediately with Joseph Zanóti: “Around Trenčín, the green grass, reaped there, the psalm, the Anička…”

Milan’s daughter takes pictures of her father on her cell phone, and she’s giving us homemade desserts for a while. Cups made of fragile dough filled with currant jam and chocolate foam, decorated with raspberry. Delicious. We understand that for both guys, singing and harmonica are heart issues.

This is a deeply loss-making business, none of us do it for money. It’s satisfaction to see people having fun.

During the whole interview, Milan has a figliar look on his face Þ barely noticeable smile and sparkles in his eyes. I’m asking if it happens that somebody gets their songs to tears.

An elderly lady lives nearby. When we play one such song about Mommy, she always cries, and she answers and adds that for people, songs are often associated with specific memories of loved ones, and it’s the famous sensitive string.

In my mind, these are musicians with body and soul. Hearts. There’s no way they both like people. No wonder people like them, too.