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Daily concert-meetings are back
06.10.2010
The daily concert-meetings which started in January and are organized in cooperation between Estonian Traditional Music Center and Viljandi senior citizen's organizations continue in October with Katrin Karisma as the guest.
Rannar Raba, who is the Head of Public Relations at Estonian Traditional Music Center and the host of the concert-meetings, said that the cooperation with the Viljandi Senior Citizen's Union and Viljandi Senior Citizen's Association during the last season was successful and their collaboration will continue for the months to come. At the same time, he emphasized that the meetings were not meant only for retired people and music friends of all ages are welcome.
"We believed that there is a demand for daily concert-meetings and we were proven to have been right. We saw hundreds of wise people in the Traditional Music Center who are sharp-witted and active consumers of culture but who do not want to attend events which start late in the evening. Thus, afternoon events fit perfectly into their schedules," said Raba.
The first concert-meeting of the season will be held on October 7 at 13.00 and the guest will be the beloved singer and actress Katrin Karisma whose role as Pippi Longstocking has become a legend. In November, the instrument-maker, teacher and the master of Torupillitalu (Bagpipe Farm) Ants Taul will take the stage together with his daughter Anu Taul who is a musician.
According to Rannar Raba, they will try to keep to the tradition of half of the performers being traditional musicians and the other half representing some other music genres. "Regardless of where the centre of attention is positioned in the works of the guest, I will try to find out where he or she comes from and what is his or her relationship with traditional music. Our experience so far shows that people are influenced and connected to traditional music in different interesting and surprising ways." The guests of the daily concert-meetings during the previous season were Ivo Linna, Antti Kammiste, Indrek Kalda, Tarmo Noormaa, Heino Tartes, Voldemar Kuslap and Ike Volkov.