Wed, 30 Oct 2024, 18:00
Price:
13.59 €
Honeypaw is a duo formed by Jurgita Žvinklytė and Matti Palonen after Jurgita moved to Toronto, Canada in 2019. Since then, they have been performing traditional songs in Lithuanian, Finnish and Karelian on recordings of the kanklé, kantele and jouhikko instruments in Canada and Europe. Their music is intertwined with Finnish Kalavella myths, Lithuanian contrapuntal collisions and the rhythms of the city of Toronto.
On this tour of Lithuania, the group will be presenting a new repertoire based on the phonograph roller recordings of the Finnish folklorist A.R. Niemi made more than a hundred years ago. Niemi's plan was to carry out comparative research on Finnish and Baltic folk lyrics, but he realised that there was not enough material in Lithuania at that time. So he travelled to north-eastern Lithuania to collect and publish the first printed samples of Lithuanian polyphonic songs and sutartnias, and later visited the Dzūkija region, but the songs he collected there were never published. In 1912, he visited the same places to record songs and sutartines on phonograph reels. On a trip to Finland in May 2023, Honeypaw visited the archives of the Finnish Literary Society and obtained copies of the unpublished wax roller recordings made by Niemi. Based on the songs selected from the recordings, they have created a new repertoire "Songs from Wax", which they will present in Nemunas Radviliškis, Valkininkai and Marcinkonys, where the songs were recorded. Kaunas will be the first and last stop of the Honeypaw tour in Lithuania.