"SALDUVA" since 1974 has participated in all Republican Song Festivals, World Lithuanian Song Festivals (1994, The Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, the Lithuanian National Centre of Culture and the World Lithuanian Song Festival Foundation named the collective "The Best Folk Band and Leader" and awarded the "Golden Bird 2008" statuette. Participant of the Lithuanian Millennium Song Celebration "Amžių sutartinė" (2009), the 2014 Lithuanian Song Celebration "Here is My Home" to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Song Celebration, and the 2018 Lithuanian Centenary Song Celebration "VARDAN TOS...", participant of the "Tree of Life" evening of ensembles of the Lithuanian Centenary Day Celebration "Kad giria žaliūtu" (To Make the Grove Green" in 2024). The group won the fifth place in the Republican Song Festival, being among the top ten best bands of the Republic.
1977-1979 Winner and graduate of republican and regional competitions, festivals, festivals "Gaudžia trimitai" (Vilnius), "Žemaitiškas Violin" (N.Akmenė), "Nemuno vingiai" (Prienai).
1980 - concert tour to Bulgaria. In 1981 the collective was awarded the title of the folk collective "SALDUVA".
1984 In the competition "Trakų pilis" (Trakai castle) it won the grand transition prize.
In 1990 Algimantas Jonas Bartašius began to lead the band.
A.J. Bartašius's concert programmes are dominated by instrumental and vocal works professionally arranged or composed by the band leader himself.
The band "Salduva" accompanies a vocal duet, the women's vocal ensemble "Melodija", the seniors' folk dance group "Diemedis", and a joint choir - the band leader composes the instrumentations for the accompaniment. A.J. Bartašius.
"Salduva" has been a participant of all the Lithuanian folk music band festivals "Griežk, violin" held for 23 years in the Kuršėnai Culture Centre, and its leader A.J. Bartašius is the chief conductor of the festival.
The band "Salduva" has been a participant of all the Šiauliai region's festivals of song and dance that have taken place in the Kuršėnai Daugėliai pine woods for almost six decades.
