"Jazz'stradą" - a programme where a team of great Lithuanian jazz musicians will invite you to hear well-known pop songs in a completely new way. The project's initiators - singer Eglė Vakarinaitė and saxophonist and programme arranger Karolis Šarkaus - met and formed a musical friendship two years ago. From it developed the programme, performed for the first time at this year's Kaunas Jazz Festival, for which as many as seven musicians have joined their talents and strengths. The leader of the septet, Eglė Vakarinaitė, is a professional jazz vocalist and vocal pedagogue, who studied at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and the Prince Claus Conservatory in Groningen, the Netherlands. The owner of a deep and memorable voice, she has performed in Latvia, Spain and Portugal, and with Lithuanian jazz legend Petras Vyšniauskas at Expo in Zaragoza, Kaunas Jazz Festival and other events. She has recorded songs with G&G Sindikatas (one of their most popular tracks is "1'as kraujoas"), electronic music stars Happyendless, Sinstation and other artists. She also took part in the TV music project "Singing Lithuania", last year she held a series of successful concerts with the chamber ensemble "Musica humana" and the string quartet "Archi Quartett", and performs at Lithuanian jazz festivals and clubs with her own group "Jazz Between The Sheets".