POP/ROCK - Aug. 4, 1987

It may be decadent and oh-so-American, but that didn’t stop more than 15,000 Poles from yipping and yahooing their way through a country music “piknik” last weekend. The three-day music festival that ended Sunday at Mragowo, a lakeside resort, featured American and Polish country performers. “All roads lead to Nashville,” declared the show’s impresario, Korneliusz Pacuda, opening Saturday night’s program. Pacuda said tickets were sold out three months in advance, even before the program was announced--a tribute to the music’s burgeoning popularity in a land where lyrics like “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose . . . “ have decidedly political overtones.