The Folk Dance Group "Swojacy" was established in 2007 at the Association for the Development and Cooperation of the Villages of Moszczanka and Skrzebowa and since 2008 has been one of the sections of the Municipal-Community Cultural Centre in Raszków. It consists of two age groups (children and youth) and has a total of about 60 people.
The band's greatest successes include:
- Grand Prix for the youth group and 1st place for the children's group during the Review of Folklore Groups of Southern Wielkopolska in Brzeziny (2024),
- 2nd place for the children's group during the 4th National Festival of Folk Groups, Singers and Bands in Wymiarki (2024)
- 1st place at the 3rd Festival of Children's and Youth Songs in Toruń (2019),
- 1st place for both age groups of "Swojaki" during the Review of Folklore and Creativity of the Szamotuły Region "Jakżem jechoł do Szamotuł" (2021, 2022),
- participation in the 2nd National Folklore Festival "O Puchar Czarnech Diamentów" in Katowice (2016), where the children's group took 1st place and the youth group took 2nd place,
- 2nd place for the wreath group "Swojaków", representing the Wielkopolska Province at the presidential harvest festival in Spała (2018),
- 3rd place in the children's category during the 7th Castellan Folklore Meetings in Sierpc (2021),
- Laur Kultury Starosty Ostrowski (2013).
"Swojacy" performs about 25 times a year. The group is an ambassador of Polish folk culture and the Commune and City of Raszków during concerts in southern Wielkopolska and far beyond the region. Polish towns in which "Swojaków" performed include Warsaw, Częstochowa, Białystok, Katowice, Poznań, Leszno, Gołdap, Kostrzyn Wielkopolski, Kowary, Syców and Wołów. The dancers have also performed in France (2010, 2011, 2022), Serbia (2012), Moldova (2013), Romania (2014), Latvia (2015), Georgia (2016), Russia (2017), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2018), Great Britain (2019) and in the Czech Republic (2022), Slovakia (2023) and Portuguese Madeira (2024). The group is a co-organizer of the "Swojskie Spotkania z Folklorem" organized annually in Skrzebowa and Moszczanka, during which folk groups from southern Wielkopolska and abroad perform.
In 2024, the "Swojacy" Folk Dance Group became a member of the Polish Section of CIOFF (International Council of Folklore Associations, Festivals and Folk Art).
Children and young people perform:
- dances from Greater Poland: games and dances from the Raszków region, games and dances from Western Greater Poland, a suite of Szamotuły dances "Jak sie mocie" and a medley from the Biskupizna region "Domachowski Gościniec", national dances: krakowiak, polonaise, mazur, - dances from Lublin, - dances from Nowy Sącz, - dances from Rzeszów, - games and dances from the Żywiec Beskids, - grape harvest from Zielona Góra, - Greater Poland rituals: harvest festival "Wieniec Wielkopolski", staging "Podkoziołek u Biskupian", the custom of walking with a copse "Nowe lotko", wedding ritual "Oczepiny szamotulski", - carols and pastorals in dance form.
The ensemble's equipment includes original costumes from Greater Poland (Biskupia, Szamotuły, Western Greater Poland, Raszkowska Land), Lublin, Kraków, Rzeszów, nobility, Beskid Żywiecki and Beskid Sądecki.
During the dances, the ensemble is accompanied by a band consisting of: Klaudia Szubert (violin), Jacek Konopczyński (clarinet), Wojciech Zieleziński (bass) and a children's bagpipe band consisting of: Wiktor Marszał (Greater Poland bagpipes) and Cezary Bednarczyk (tied violin).
The instructor and choreographer of the ensemble is Jolanta Marszał - tel. 506 099 419.