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Birštonas Jazz festival
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Date: March 26-28
Location:Jaunimo str. 4, Birštonas resort.
In the cozy resort Birštonas the oldest traditional international jazz festival in Lithuania „Birštonas Jazz“ will start. The festival continues from 1980, because of that „Birštonas Jazz“ has earned the name of Lithuanian jazz Mecca. Here from all over Lithuania, and not only from here, come all jazz „pilgrims“.
Birštonas Jazz festival is not only the oldest but also the most democratic festival of Lithuanian jazz, which presents a diverse range of Lithuanian jazz elements, genres, trends and the diversity of styles, from dixilandjazz to contemporary experimental and innovative explorations. Birštonas Jazz Festival stage is open not only for professionals, but also to debutants, young musicians.
Program:
March 26 (Friday) 7.00 pm.
Kaunas dixiland DIXXBAND, soilist Kristina Svolkinaitė
Arkadijus Gotesmanas Quintet
Atūras Anusauskas
Klaipėda BigBand, soilists Monika Liubinaitė and Steponas Januška
Šiauliai BigBand
Ticket price 40 Lt.
March 27 (Saturday) 12.00 am.
Liudas Mackūnas NuClear and LMTA BigBand
Arvydas Jofe
Joint Vilnius and Edinburgh (Scotland) college student project (led by Vladimir Chekasin)
Ticket price: 30 Lt.
4.00 pm.
Ballads project „You‘ ve Changed“ of Vita Rusaitytė and Skirmantas Sasnauskas
BRUS SEXTET (Sweden)
Tickets price: 40 Lt.
8.00 pm.
Kadri Voorand group (Estonia) and saxophonist Juusi Kaanaste (Finland)
Project ODESSA 5 of Stefanas Pasborgas (Denmark, Finland, Lithuania)
Dainius Pulauskas sextet
Tickets price: 50 Lt.
March 28 (Sunday) 1.00 pm.
Kaunas BigBand (led by Skirmantas Sasnauskas)
Remy Filipovitch Quartet (Germany)
Latvian jazz band “Mirage” (led by Lauris Amantovas), soilist Jolanta Gulbė
Tickets price: 40 Lt.
6.00 pm.
Nicko Svarco ir Aurelijus Ščiukas Quartet (UK, Lithuania)
Kęstutis Vaiginis Quartet (Lithuania, Turkey)
Herbie Kopf Quintet SWILIT (Switzerland, Lithuania)
Tickets price: 40 Lt.












































