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XIII Viljandi Folk Music Festival July 28-31, 2005

The festival program this year focuses on bowed instruments.

A bow is an invention that supposedly about a thousand years ago made the sound of string instruments flowing and carrying. The bow then spread quite simultaneously from the Central Asia to China, the Java islands, North Africa, Middle East, Balkan Peninsula and Europe.

Well known in Estonia are violin, bowed harp, moldpill and bladder instrument (folkstyle bowed instruments), viola, cello, double bass, viola da gamba, viola da braccio, nyckelharpa and other bowed instruments.

• About 400 performers, a quarter from outside Estonia
• More than a hundred concerts in Viljandi and Viljandi County
• Three inside concert venues and five open-air stages in the town
• Traditional workshops, Handicraft Yard and Fairy-tale Chamber
• Green Stage program free during the whole Festival
• A week before the Festival there is the Young Folk Musicians Camp Estonian ETNO (participants are welcome!)
• Festival is free of charge for children up to 12 years of age (incl.)

Folk Music Study Camp Estonian ETNO 2005 is again inviting former and new music lovers.
The ninth Estonian ETNO begins on July 22 and concludes with Viljandi Folk Music Festival.

More information about the camp: http://www.rahvamuusika.ee/etno/yheksas.htm

Viljandi Folk Music Festival 2004 - here is also the previous news page and forum and RealVideo archive!
Viljandi Folk Music Festival 2003
Viljandi Folk Music Festival 2002

Forum 2004 is on Festival web page

NB! In order to trade Passes there is a Pass trading page

See also town map.

• Open-air concerts: Kirsimägi, Kaevumägi, Kultrahoov (Culture House Yard), Aura Tent and Green Stage.
• Inside Concerts: Suur Tuba (Black Box), the Theater Ugala and Jaani Church.
• You are most welcome at our Workshops, Fairy-tale Chamber, Handicraft Yard and Exhibition.
• In addition there are concerts all over Viljandi County.
• A week before the big event there is the Folk Music Study Camp - Estonian ETNO in Viljandi county.
• Green Stage is located at Viljandi Singing Ground this year!

Transmissions are performed by MTÜ Audiovisuaalne Meedia ASBL with the help of Matti Bürootehnika and Viljandi Culture Academy. This year, too, we are planning to have simultaneous transmissions of several concerts.

In order to see the transmission your computer must have at minimum Realplayer One. It is, however, advisable to instal the freeware version of Realplayer 10. Information on adjusting the program can be found at http://nadal.viljandi.ee/?html=nvtv (in Estonian, with screenshot instructions).

Contakt: Andreas Müürsepp andu@bumpclub.ee and Jaanus Toomsalu sys@folk.ee

• After each concert we kindly ask the audience to leave the concert ground
• You are not allowed to the concert area with drinks in glass containers, with weapons, fireworks or any other pyrotechnic or otherwise dangerous appliances and/or substances
• You are not allowed to bring along your own alcoholic drinks to the concert area
• It is forbidden to climb on the walls in the Castle Ruins
• It is forbidden to take along your pets to public events