OPENING

Estonia

“A musician must be so that he plays always so that there is something in his music, not so that I take the instrument and just plain play the piece.”
/Estonian diatonic accordion player Karl Kikas/

“Well, they say that a musician is a wedding party clown. Indeed, he isn’t anything else. He has to run all the time. The others are nicely sitting at the table, eating, but the musician has to push’n’pull all the time, can’t, mustn’t drink vodka, you’ll be drunk then, can’t eat any more either and so it is that you play your instrument all the time.”
/ Estonian diatonic accordion player Alfred Teemo/

Võrumaa people say about the instruments made by the legendary August Teppo that their sound “got blood boiling and foot frolicking”. Festival opening commemorates old Estonian diatonic accordion players and instrument makers.

“I’d say, you can’t be at this work for a long time really. Especially when they come with tuning and suchlike. I’d say that then it sometimes drives you up the wall, you escape and do something else and then go back and then it begins to work out again.”
/Instrument maker Johannes Keder on making diatonic accordions/

Opening directed by Siim Pede

Welcomers

Performers

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Thursday13:00Kaevumägitasuta