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10th international
instrumental folklore festival GRIEŽYNĖ 2010
events:
Wednesday, September 8th
4 p.m. Opening of the exhibition Lithuanian Folk Music Instruments
and concert
at The National Museum (Arsenalo str. 1)
The National Museum has become a frequent holder of Griežynė events.
The exhibition in the museum displays the old and newly made Lithuanian
folk music instruments that have been collected by The National Museum,
Panevėžys Regional Museum, Ukmergė Regional Museum, and Povilas Stulga
Museum of Folk Music Instruments. You will hear the sounds of the
instruments in the concert.
7 p.m. Folkjazz music evening at Vilnius Teachers House (Vilniaus
str. 39). Participants: Vydraga, Arūnas Šlaustas, Adelė ir Emilija
Vaiginytės, Matas Macevičius
The evening concert presents the composition Skamba, skamba by
Algirdas Klova. The composition was created a short period of time ago
for the festival Skamba skamba kankliai (2010). The composition holds
10 parts that integrate various Lithuanian melodies and songs among
which the main are youth-love and wedding songs.
The axis of the composition is the instrumental folklore group
Vydraga. At present Vydraga plays various folk music of Lithuania
and other countries, interprets it in an original manner, takes part in
various projects with representatives of other music genres. Among these
projects the most outstanding are folklore music projects and CD with
Roger Watson (England) and Tatsuya Okabayashi (Japan), jazz musicians
Vladimiras Čekasinas, Skirmantas Sasnauskas and others. This time, a
great jazz pianist, master of improvisation and composer Arūnas Šlaustas
takes part in the composition.
In the concert you will also hear three schoolchildren from Vilnius
B.Dvarionas Music School, folklore class: Adelė ir Emilija Vaiginytės,
multiinstrumetalist and the winner of Tramtatulis contest Matas
Macevičius.
Thursday, September 9th
5 p.m. Opening of the photo exhibition Griežia GRIEŽYNĖ by
Virgilijus Usinavičius
at Vilnius Teachers House (Vilniaus str. 39)
Photographer Virgilijus Usinavičius has been recording the moments of
Griežynė since the first its event. Hundreds of memorable pictures
have been made and the most vivid of them are displayed in the small
exhibition.
6 p.m. Childrens folk concert The Little Fiddlers
at Vilnius Teachers House (Vilniaus str. 39)
It is adorable when children play music. It is fantastic when they play
authentic folklore music. Fortunately there is a great number of the
young folklore musicians and that was proved in the contest
Tramtatulis. Let us admire them playing!
Friday, September 10th
6 p.m. Concert by traditional intrumental music groups, the winners
of Aukso paukštė
at Vilnius Teachers House (Vilniaus str. 39)
There are nine winners of Aukso paukštė. The following groups will
take part in the concert: Dziedukai, Vydraga, Duja, Rataa,
Salako muzikantai, Sutaras and Kriščiūnai family band.
8 p.m. Folk Party and Dances at Vilnius Teachers House (Vilniaus
str. 39)
The folk party invites everyone who grumbled about the lack of dance
parties in the festival. Just dance and the greatest Lithuanian bands,
the winners of Aukso paukštė will play for you.
Saturday, September 11th
3 p.m. Folk workshop at the parlour of Vilnius Teachers House
(Vilniaus str. 39)
In this traditional event of the festival the guests will present
instruments of their region and will tell about how the instruments are
made and what music playing traditions they have, they will also
demonstrate the manner of performance and typical repertoire.
6 p.m. The big GRIEŽYNĖ concert in the Main Hall of Vilnius
Teachers House (Vilniaus str. 39)
This is the main event of the festival in which the guests as well as
musicians from Lithuania will demonstrate the most beautiful and
precious pieces of their repertoire. It is a great chance for the
listener to hear and see all the musicians of the festival on one stage.
The big concert often holds some pleasant surprises. This year we will
hear many of them.
Sunday, September 12th
2 p.m. Concert of refined folk instruments The Sounds of Kankles
and Reed-pipes
at Vilnius Teachers House (Vilniaus str. 39)
Kankles is an old string Lithuanian folk music instrument which
alongside with reed-pipes originated in the times of shepherds. Still
the time flies. In the concert you will hear pieces by composers of
Lithuania and other countries performed by refined kankles and
reed-pipes. The compiler of the programme is Kastytis Mikiška.
2 p.m. Concert by bagpipers
at A. and J. Juškos ethnic culture museum in Vilkija (Kaunas distr.)
Bagpipe is called the pipe of Labanoras forest by folk people. It is
popular in Lithuania as well in some other neighbouring countries. In
the concert you will hear bagpipers from Lithuania, Latvia, Poland,
Belarus and Ukraine.
4 p.m. The final GRIEŽYNĖ concert at Zalensai homestead, Gegužinių
valley (Padubysys village, Vilkija eldership, Kaunas distr.)
The festival traditionally closes at hospitable homestead of Romas and
Eimantas Zalensai. Right there, in Padubysys village, Gegužinių valley
, in this wonderful shelter of nature and open air museum of folk
sculptures, on timbered stage the guests of the festival will perform
for the last time. Lithuanian musicians will join them as well. The
harmony of the concert will also be enriched by the melodies performed
by musicians from our neighbouring countries.
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