Folk ensemble "Arinushka"

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11th October, Wednesday
Lithuanian National Philharmonic (Ausros Vartų str. 5)
19.00 FOLKLORE AND PRESENT. Festival Opening
Part 1: Composer Zita BRUŽAITĖ “COLLAGES” (premiere)
Participants:
LITHUANIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, artistic director Sergej KRYLOV
Folk ensemble ARINUSHKA
Conductor Modestas BARKAUSKAS
Part 2: LIVING TRADITION
Participants:
Folklore ensembles from Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, China,
Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine

"Pokrovskye Kolokola" (Pokrov Bells) is an international festival, which in a short time managed to gain great authority not only in Lithuania, but also outside it and became one of the most prestigious festivals in Lithuania. It seems like it was yesterday. The first International Folklore Festival Pokrovskye Kolokola declared itself, trying to gather professionals from different countries, broke mistrust of skeptics, won the sympathy of Vilnius discerning audience. And now the festival is celebrating its tenth anniversary.

Group "Arinushka" called "Bell Russian Lithuanian." It was formed in Vilnius, the efforts of Nicholas and Irene Zakharova as a team, in which children and adults could undertake the work of folk songs. Because backbone of this team has developed a musical group, which received a well-deserved reputation over time in the former USSR and abroad. "Arinushka" has won many folk festivals and shared the stage with well-known artists, conducted ethnographic work, produced films and record albums. "Dual citizenship" was good for the band: in his work, they combine history and culture of the peoples of Russia, Lithuania and Belarus, focusing on the Old Believers, collecting grains of their heritage and carefully preserving it, giving new life to old regional dialects, "accent" .