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In
this year, we are waiting for performers from Hungary, United
Kingdom, Poland, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania.
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Istvánfi
Balázs and Németh András
duo
Hungary
Istvánfi Balázs
and Németh András
met four years ago when studying at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music
in Budapest where they are now working as teachers. Their duo started
playing in 2010. They stand out from the others as these masters of
bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy are playing the specific own invented music
style which is based on Hungarian musical tradition. Duo plays own
compositions as well as the arrangements of historical pieces.
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Wild
Troupe - United
Kingdom
Wild Troupe
was formed in 2011 in Bristol. The playing and singing trio comprises
of Alan Kennedy
(guitar, harmonica & mandolin), Aoife
Sullivan
(flute, whistle, clarinet, accordion & ukulele) and Georgie Asser
(accordion, keyboard & percussion).
Musicians play an upbeat, foot-stomping Irish melodies, contemporary
covers and original songs. Although they are not professionals, they
successfully teach Irish dancing, and are already known abroad.
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Ales
Los trio - Belarus
Ales Los is a Belarusian folk researcher,
performer,
graphic artist and a craftsman of music instruments. He helped to
restore several important traditional Belarusian instruments such as
bagpipe, harp and bass.
The band has been established in 1995. A group then decided to be a
part of the recording and studies of an authentic instrumental
Belarusian folk music. The band which is still the only one in Belarus
still playing the folk instruments in traditional manner comprises of
three members: fiddle teacher Alona
Meleshko, bard and director Olesya
Sivochina,
and the founder Ales Los.
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Kapela Bornego z Podzamcza (The Borny Ensemble from
Podzamcze) - Poland
The Ensemble was created in the spring of
2012. Its core repertoire features traditional dance music, but the
musicians also perform folk lyrical songs. Their signature instruments
include: fiddle, suka biłgorajska, bass, frame drum. What interests the
Ensemble the most is traditional music from the Roztocze region. Their
repertoire draws on the folk masters of the genre. Also, what interests
the Ensemble is the human touch first-hand encounters with fellow
musicians and dancers. Partial to Podzamcze the grounds adjacent to
the Lublin Castle, they are fascinated by close interaction with
audiences and with the raw sound of music. For that reason, they can be
frequently heard at urban and rural dance parties all over the Lublin
region.
Mateusz Borny suka (folk vertical fiddle)
Piotr Deptuła fiddle
Bartosz Gajdzik frame drum
Robert Miedziocha - bass
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Karmen
Juhkam, Karolin Härm, Leanne Barbo - Estonia
This trio of kannel players is from North-Estonia. Two of
them are the students of the most honorable guest of Griežynė Leanne Barbo. Girls
perform both together and separately, they also are interested in
different instruments. You will hear them playing not only kannel but
also a bagpipe, buckhorn, singing some traditional songs.
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Asnate
Rancāne, Aurēlija Rancāne, Ēriks
Zeps - Latvia
Although all three members of this trio have
different musical backgrounds, their taste of music is greatly
influenced by a traditional Eastern Latvian folk music. They mostly
enjoy playing and singing the energetic Latgalian region songs.
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Harmonica players` duo - Vytas Rimkus ir Dainius Maslauskas
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Lithuania
Harmonica players` duo started playing
together one and a half year ago when encouraged by their teacher and
inspirer, one of the best harmonica players` Algimantas Mieliauskas.
Moreover, both love playing, petersburgian harmonica. Soon enough
they had a debut performance in the festival Pamituvio armonika 2013.
Later in the fall they became laureates in republican harmonica player
duo competition.
Dainius Maslauskas a young harmonica player,
laureate of different
competitions.
Vytautas Rimkus an older harmonica player, a musician
since he was 5 years old. Not only a master of playing but also of the
instruments themselves he has raised a number of harmonicas for the
second life.
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Folklore group "Ritingo" - Lithuania
Cozy and exquisite
musical
harmonies, gentle
guitar sounds and a folklore treasure spread through the calm vocals, a
never
ending thread between the modern and folk music it is only a part of
what can
be felt when listening to the performances of the ensemble from Mykolas
Romeris
university Ritingo.
For a
number of years the creative pieces written by the
leader of ensemble Arvydas
Kirda
and a member of ensemble Marius
Kačiulis are
being loved and memorized not only by the members of Ritingo but also
by
those who have listened to them. The ensemble hopes that their
performance in
this festival will be unforgettable, and will allow to experience an
even
stronger and more intense harmony and coherence between the old folk
treasure -
folklore and folk - and the modern world music.
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