Roseye, a selection of young European talents, will play at Kaunas Jazz Festival: a Lithuanian in an international band

The largest jazz festival in Lithuania, Kaunas Jazz, announces another intriguing highlight of its programme.

On the first day of the festival, 24 April, the band Roseye, which brings together five young talented musicians from different countries, will perform at Kaunas' Volfas Engelman Galerija.

The Netherlands-based band are true genre-breakers, combining jazz, soul, electronic music, hip-hop and other styles.

The energetic and inspiring programme has received support from one of Europe's brightest saxophone stars, Dutch musician Candy Dulfer, who has been dazzling the world with her concerts and collaborations with some of the planet's most famous musicians for decades.

Roseye has already been broadcast by many of the most important radio stations in Europe, including the British BBC.

We are pleased to announce that this international team includes a Lithuanian name - Kasparas Petkus, a drummer studying in Amsterdam, who, by the way, performed with Amber Hunters at Kaunas Jazz two years ago.

"It's like a glittering curtain that you walk through and find yourself in another dimension," writes Dutch music journalist Luna Sterre van Heck about Roseye.

"Roseye has already had many successful concerts in Europe and the UK, and the band is a household name on the Dutch music scene.

The band has been invited to play at the legendary North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, and major festivals in Germany and France.

Roseye performs "Ayesha".youtube.com/watch?v=oO2a74Cp7rg

In January this year, the band received many compliments after performing at Eurosonic Noorderslag, Europe's biggest festival for emerging music talent, held annually in the Dutch city of Groningen.

Roseye was one of the Dutch bands chosen to perform not on the last day of the festival, which is dedicated to the country's musicians, but in an international programme, which also includes many of the world's most influential festival promoters and delegates from the music business.

The band is fronted by the excellent Scottish saxophonist and vocalist Tallulah Rose, who helps create the band's distinctive and fresh sound.

Roseye's work not only spreads inspiration and musical energy, but also touches on important themes for humanity as a whole, from political debate to spirituality, merging with nature, sexuality, pain, healing and love.

The band released their debut album Every Move last April, and will present their music live for the first time in Lithuania at Kaunas Jazz, a concert that will be an introduction to the festival's soundtrack of experiences, discoveries and the highest level of musicianship.

Roseye on the stage of the North Sea Jazz Festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgTk3Nv9BDU

Tickets for all concerts of the 35th Kaunas Jazz Festival are distributed by BILIETAI.LT.

As previously announced, the audience of the Kaunas Jazz Festival will be entertained by the US saxophonist James Carter at the National Kaunas Drama Theatre on 25 April, and by a duet between the stars of the famous US band Snarky Puppy, Michael League and Bill Laurance on 26 April.

Four more concerts - in Jurbarkas, Kaunas, Palanga and Joniškis - will be given by Swiss guitarist Heinz Affolter and his band Appletree, who performed at the first Kaunas Jazz Festival 34 years ago.

On 2 May, the festival will move to Vilnius, where the US jazz star and three-time Grammy Award nominee Jazzmeia Horn will give an exclusive concert at the LVSO Concert Hall.

You can follow all the news on the festival's website at www.kaunasjazz.lt and on the festival's accounts in social networks.