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Regina Mänd
Regina Mänd is a fiddle player who is fascinated by the authentic solo tradition of past centuries, as well by mixing of different musical genres and author’s creations inspired by newer traditional music. Her…

Helle-Mare Kõmmus
Helle-Mare Kõmmus is a guardian and irreplaceable upholder of the tradition of Hiiumaa. For years, she has been searching for the origins of Hiiu dances and music, investigating historical records and occasionally sharing her…

Dance club 2
20:00 Maris Pihlap & students 21:00 Janusz Prusinowski, Andrzej Baran, Szymon Tadla, Fryderyk Kruczek (Poland) 22:00 Ekton Korka (Udmurtia) 00:00 Natali Ponetajev & Johan Kristjan Aimla 01:00 Edita Gumauskaite, Artiom Opperman, Martynas Vingrys (Lithuania)

Dance club 3
20:00 Duo Mänd/Krüsban 21:00 Juhász Zoltán, Juhász Réka, Németh Nóra, Babinecz Sándor (Hungary) 23:00 Duo Jansen/Jüssi (Norway/Estonia) 01:00 Emilija Vaiginytė, Jogintas Čepulis, Tomas Jurginas (Lithuania) 03:00 Tallinn Dance Club Band 04:00 Free stage

Dance club 1
20:00 Aivar Arak 21:00 Krista, Raivo & Mihkel Sildoja 22:00 Kadri Lepasson & students 23:00 Kristi Kool 00:00 Katariina Tirmaste 01:00 Ülo Saaremõts

Smetonos ūsai / Smetona mustache
Smetonos ūsai’s music is rooted the recordings from the beginning of 20th century: polkas, waltzes, foxtrots and marches from Lithuania’s towns and countryside. Most of these melodies originate from the region of Aukštaitija. Wanting…

Ülo Saaremõts
Ülo is a passionate dancer and musician in dance clubs. One can say even that a dance club will take place there where Ülo is with his garmoshka because sooner or later all people…

Emilija Vaiginytė, Jogintas Čepulis, Tomas Jurginas
Jogintas, Emilija and Tomas are already familiar to those who were at Sabatants last spring or who have found themselves at dance parties in Lithuania. A relatively new violon-bagpipe band has become well known…

Krista, Raivo & Mihkel Sildoja
Krista and Raivo Sildoja are the perfect example of village musicians. They are exceedingly knowledgeable about music and have studied their own culture as well as foreign, having travelled an seen quite a bit…