VISI
The venerable and renowned Lituanian traditional folklore ensemble, known since 1980. The leaders of the ensemble are famous folk nurturers – Daiva and Evaldas Vyčinas. From the very beginning, the ensemble broke the old stereotypes of stage image and folk singing and influenced other ensembles. VISI is particularly fond of the songs of southern Samogitians, […]
ŪTARA
The group of sutartinės (ancient Lituanian polyphonic chants) singers met 35 years ago in the folklore ensemble Ratilio at Vilnius University, and later took part in the folklore group Vydraga. When they reunited in 2012, the singers chose the name Ūtara for their group. “Ūtaroti” means to talk, to chat, to tell stories, which is […]
SMETONOS ŪSAI
Traditional dance lovers are familiar with this band from Lituanian Uplands, and their centuries-old dance tunes: polkas, waltzes, foxtrots and figure dances. The first time we saw Smetonos ūsai in MJR under the name ByTikZyz. Although the group has changed its title, their love for dancing and the festival has not changed. The heart-tugging violin, […]
RATILAI
“We like it and we do it” – that’s one sentence to describe what unites the musicians of the instrumental folk group Ratilai (Ripples in eng.). The group’s youthful energy and good mood is infectious, captivating the audience and turning them into active fans of traditional songs and dances. Ratilai are among most active traditional folk […]
ZPOAN VTENZ
Big news!!! – legendary pagan folk metal band Zpoan Vtenz will perform on stage of the final MJR! This project, founded by Ramūnas Peršonis – Mūnius in 1994, has been creating the beginnings of the Lituanian pagan underground scene together with other bands from Utena: Poccolus, Ha Lela, Sovijus. The incendiary sound of Zpoan Vtenz […]
Vytautas V. ir Jonas LANDSBERGIAI
The well-known Lituanian bard Vytautas V. Landsbergis and his son Jonas will enchant the audience with a new programme “Fly over the top of the trees”. This is a live arrangement of native folk ballads and poems from V. V. Landsbergis’s latest book “DIENANAKTIS”, set to acoustic and electronic music. As the title says, we […]
ROMOWE RIKOITO (Prussia)
It is a dark-folk enchanted journey along the secret path of Baltic eternity – prābutiskan – towards the legendary Ramawa shrine. The magical music of Romowe Rikoit spreads ritualistic meditation and Baltic mantras, opens the wild silence of intertribal wastelands with glowing fields, and paves the path of post-Baltic invisibility on a journey of constant […]
N A H A S H
Cult Lituanian band, known since the very beginnings of our black metal scene. Like the Mėnuo Juodaragis festival, Nahash has been spreading the mist of dark art for three decades. Once again, the venerable metal originators will rise to the stage to present a full retrospective of the band’s path – from the occult and magic of […]
WELJAR (PL)
We sang songs as we sowed.We sang songs as we baked bread.We sang songs as we hunted.We sang songs as we celebrated.Songs were sung as we were born and as we passed away.When the day was long and the night was long.Old songs have been forgotten.We write new ones. The Weljar band is a project […]
t A n g e r i n e c A t (Wales)
Duo of Zhenia Purpurovsky and Paul Chilton produce and perform ultra dark electronic music that rose out of the bare realities of life. It’s a witchy mixture of underground resistance brewed in a cauldron of many genres like punk, metal, techno, contemporary DnB, industrial, with the special charm of Purpurovsky’s Ukrainian heritage. Currently based in […]
