Triskele

Estonia

This year Triskele shares with the festival audience a selection of folk hymns from the historical area of Mulgimaa in South-Estonia. These tunes are based on the manuscript choral book of the organist Gustav Swahn from Helme parish church dating back to the year 1774. This collection of hymns, the oldest one known in the Baltic States, offers a great joy of exploration as its arrangements take into consideration the one-time manner of singing that allowed free decorations and variations. Triskele, for their part, adds folk instruments and tries to guess in some cases also the atmosphere how these hymns might have sounded 230 years ago.

• Janno Mäe – drums, vocal
• Jaanus Roosileht – fiddle, bowed harp, rebec, vocal
• Toivo Sõmer – kannel, ud, vocal
• Tarmo Tabas – vocal
• Heikki-Rein Veromann – flutes, vocal
• Ergo-Hart Västrik – vocal

• Toivo Sõmer: +372 556 711 34 triskele2@hotmail.com