Festival news

"Skamba skamba kankliai" folklore festival has been held in Vilnius since 1973 and is one of the few authentic folk music festivals in Europe.

The international folklore festival "Skamba skamba kankliai", which took place on 23-26 May, gathered: Lithuanian folklore ensembles and...

The folklore ensemble "Dobryna" was formed in Bialystok, Poland, by a group of young traditional music lovers. The ensemble performs...

"Shlyakh-Dorizhenka", whose name means "little way, little road", is a youth folklore group that performs folk songs and traditional...

Volha Baryshnikava is a Belarusian ethnomusicologist, a singer and a teacher of traditional singing, instrumentalist musician (accordion,...

The Italian folk group "Radici a Sud", whose name means "south roots", since it is the origin of the musician who founded the group...

"Alutaguse rahvamuusikud" ("Alutaguse Folk Musicians") came together in the autumn of 2022 to take part in the Youth Song and Dance...

Folklore band Svātra came together in 1994 for the first time to regale folklore art lovers’ eyes and ears. In the songs of Svātra...

The Gruppo Terra del Sole cultural folk association was founded in Lodi in February 1998 at the behest of Miriam Catanese and Felice...

Aaron O’Hagan is a multi instrumentalist and renowned instrument maker from Co Antrim. Playing uilleann pipes and wooden flutes, he is...

The women's group Babskyi Kozachok (eng. Women's Cossack), initiated in 2009 by Irina Klymenko and Olena Honcharenko, presents a wide...

Nøringen is a fiddle duo from the west coast of Norway. Two young students of folk music Ingrin Sofie Midtbø Bruner(14) and Ida...

The ensemble plays ancient melodies such as mazurkas, obereks, kujawiaks, polkas, tangos and foxtrots, as well as Jewish melodies. This,...

The folklore group Banga was founded in 2016 by friends who grew up together in the families of participants of the Latvian neo-folklore...

The polyphonic group Chaonia was founded in 1996. Its name is related to the country name Chaones, where the polyphonic songs of the...

Once again, the international folklore festival Skamba skamba kankliai will invite you to flood the Old Town of Vilnius with beautiful...

Vilce is a folk group made up of young women from Kyiv. The singers perform traditional music without interpretations, loving it truly as...

The three founders of the group began playing together when they were given the opportunity to get acquainted with the musical tradition...

The children’s folklore and ethnography studio Amer-Imeri was founded in 1991 by the well-known ethnomusicologist, head of the Mtiebi...