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Center Begins the New Season
01.09.2010
The party which takes place on Friday, September 10 starts with the performance of one of Estonia's most charismatic traditional musicans Mari Kalkun who, with her friends Triin Norman, Silver Sepp, Siim Soop, and Karoliina Kreintaal, will play songs from her second album which will be released in September. The second half of the concert will consist of music from the band Lindpriid who are famous for their war songs . As usual, the Traditional Music Center does not just provide a concert when celebrating important landmarks such as the beginning of a season but also offers a chance for the audience to dance too. For this reason, there will be a performance by energetic youngsters Jalmar Vabarna, Maarja Nuut, Karoliina Kreintaal, Eeva Lindal and several others.
According to the producer of the Traditonal Music Center, Janne Suits, the aim while organising the launch party of the season was to offer performances by both young and fresh and renowned musicians. "Mari Kalkun is without any doubt an outstanding young singer whose timbre cannot be confused with anyone else's. The same can be said about Jaan Sööt, Toomas Lunge and Inderk Kalda who form the band Lindpriid. Their songs are meaningful and appropriate for embracing the beginning of the dark winter period," said Suits. During this season, the Traditional Music Center will organise tens of single concerts in addition to several series of events, which are already known to the friends of traditional music. For example, Annika Mändmaa will continue organising family mornings which are aimed at families with children but, for the first time, the smell of pancakes cooked on site will be added. OurCulture Academy which is organised in cooperation with Viljandi Culture Academy will concentrate on the topic of "BODY" during the next few months as a continuation of the theme from this year's folk festival which focused on dance. The daily concert-meetings organised in conjunction with the senior citizen's organisations will also continue. The guest for October will be Katrin Karismaa.
The traditional two-day Harvest Festival will take place during the first days of October. The audience of this festival will probably be more international than usual because the delegates of the European World Music Festival Forum will gather in Viljandi at the same time.
The Traditional Music Center was opened in the spring of 2008 in the Viljandi Castle Hills. Starting from this autumn, the center will have seasonal sponsors: A Le Coq Ltd. and LHV Bank.