On Friday, May 15th, a meeting with the band Van took place during the 2009 Music Show Fair held in Sosnowiec's Trade Fair Expo Silesia. On the very same day a new studio single of this Silesian band playing progressive rock premiered. The meeting, which was held between 3 and 5 pm on the Band Factory stand, offered a chance to talk to the musicians, as well as to get their new single called Surfaces for free.

What to say..many thanks for support and having faith..thanks Megy Dark for everything,thanks Ola..and You know why...You are awesome..

" We are never alone, You can always find the persons ready to take a journey with You.." (Paulo Coelho)
So...we have started our new vans musical journey with : Karolina "Kara" Mazurska on voclas, dawid Nakonieczny -on bass guitar, Bikram Singh -on flutes (appears on acceptation of Haadia Galely-mantra moods), Marcin "Lisek"Skaba-on violins.You can listen to the results of this journey on our official myspace site: www.myspace.com/vanbarbarazielinska, the first track from the forthcoming in January 2009 studio single titled "Surfaces" is called "The Cliff".

Van on Gramy 2008 "Bujanka" brought us to the final! www.gramy2008.pl

Give us Your votes on: www.heiko.pl (unfortunately for english listeners the tracks are in polish... :/)

Attention! You can support us buying our tracks on: www.megatotal.pl/van

You can also visit our profiles at: www.streemo.pl/van, www.muzzo.pl/van, www.netfan.pl, www.band.amde.pl/van, www.nuta.pl, www.muzyka.pl

On 24th of November we take part at Grodkow festival and on 6th of december we support our friends who promotes new studio album at Korez Theatre.

Another attraction, we took part at mtv-rocking competition with Dust in the wind track of the Kansas band,the whole track at our myspace site.

Top 5 of Marka Wiernik (Radio For You) for Big Star festival bands: Manchester, Ploosh, Rockaway, Salumnesia i VAN - thank You.

On 15th of June the band we played at League of Rock edition in Jelenia Gora.

On first of May we plyed in Knurow at Na Jezykach Countryhouse.

Emergenza Festival, we played and won the first etap, so see You again on second part of Festival in 7th of April at VK Club, Molenbeek, Brussels.

Van supports the action feed the hungry children.

On 8th January we play at Emergenza Festival in Belgium, Kriekalaar Club.

Proszówki-Highway... we went, played and won the 3 rd place!!!

We kindly thanks for so big and fast interest on my space!: www.myspace.com/vanbarbarazielinska we cannot answer to all of You at once but one day...:).

On 3rd september the band will play at "Rock Highway" in Proszowki near Bochnia.

In July 2006 we went to Belgium for the press tour-thanks everyone for favourable reception!( Baasza-Johny You are great!)

On 15th of July- Van will perform at Hainaut Rock Festival in France.

On 3rd of June 2006 Van band will take part in Wave Gothic Treffen Festival in Germany, alongside bands like: Clan Of Xymox, Legendary Pink Dots and many many other artists.

February 2006: The new official Van single is available now. Contact us to order!

July 2005: the band line-up changes. A new version of demo material is recorded. It foreshadows the upcoming longplay album, to be entitled "Gate". The promo single will feature singer/violinist Tylda Ciolkosz, guitarist Pawel Szczubial and bassist Adam Harris (Hammer, Krzysztof Jaryczewski).

In the meantime, Barbara and Adam are working on a new project with the reknown Polish harpist, Anna Faber.

June 2005: the retrospective single entitled "I Fly" is out now. Featured are radio edits of two songs already known from live performances and one brand new composition.

March 2005: Van to perform during the "Baja Prog" Festival in Mexico. Other performers include Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer), Caravan, Taal-a, Ashtar and many more... It is the ninth edition of the festival. Other Polish bands who have previously performed there are Quidam and Ankh.

March 2004: Van on tour with a Russian band Romislokus. Venues include Progresja (Warsaw), Ucho (Gdynia) and Kuznia (Bydgoszcz). The material recorded during the last of the shows will be released as a bootleg. Van's live set includes both the material from "Miracles" and new versions of the songs from "Secret Garden". The manager of Romislokus assures that the band will return to Poland for more shows. Van is working on new live material, to be presented during the upcoming May shows.

"Miracles" can be purchased at the Varsovian club Progresja. Audio samples from the album can be heard at the club's website.

An interview with Barbara will apear in the March issue of the English "Sequences" magazine.

January 2004: The "Walking In Clouds" video clip to be presented on Polish TV 1, during "Teleexpress".

The new album by Barbara, "Secret Garden" can be ordered online at : vanband@onet.eu (attention: low price and a bonus CD included!)

August 2003: Van & Borner to perform during the "ZEF - Reaktywacja" Festival in Pisz. Other performers include: Wladyslaw Komendarek, Konrad Kucz, Krzysztof Scieranski, Jozef Skrzek, Robert Kanan and Marek Bilinski. The event will be hosted by Jerzy Kordowicz. More info can be obtained at the festival's website: www.zef.elmuzyka.pl.

15th March 2003: The new Van & Borner release, "Miracles" is out now! The premiere took place during the Electronic Music Fairs in Langenfeld, Germany. The album features guest performances by a bassist, a guitarist and a vocalist. It consists of eight unseparable songs. The material will be promoted by a composition entitled "Walking In Clouds" (a video-clip was also produced).

The album can be ordered online.

"Shadow Dancing", the opening song from "Miracles", was released on the "Sequences" magazine compilation CD. Other songs from the album are being aired in Poland, Canada, Brazil, Spain, England and the US.

The "EL-Projekt" 2CD album can be purchased at www.empi.z.pl.

The release includes compositions by Polish el-musicians and some cover-versions of songs by the most reknown artists of the genre, including J.M. Jarre, Vangelis, Klaus Schulze. All the featured artists performed together their own version of "Tubullar Bells 2".

2002: One of Barbara's compositions, "Antigravity 6" was presented during the "Synesthese 2002" Electroaccoustic Music Festival in Bourges, France. The composer herself took part in the performance.

2001: Barbara's composition, "5 Minut" was awarded during the "Synesthese 2002" Electroaccoustic Music Festival in Bourges, France.
The Polish Requiem Records placed "Nostalgia i Nadzieja", a mutual composition by Lukasz "Nemezis" Pawlak and Barbara Zielinska-Van, on their compilation CD entitled "City Songs".