Daytime programme

Passengers arriving by train from Vilnius will be welcomed at the station by an extraordinary character — inventor and alchemist of music and forms Hassan Alp Çelikel.

El Brujo — Latin American rhythms and the live sounds of flute, vocals and drums.

Vilius Jasaitis is a performer who never knows what his performance will be like. Drawing on the good old wisdom of a looper, he will try to surprise himself and everyone passing by!

Ignas iš Ignalinos is the creator and performer of the most positive Lithuanian regional reggae, playing music and warming listeners’ hearts for over ten years! His music leaves no one indifferent and brings a smile to listeners’ faces in an instant.

Ignas iš Ignalinos

A street musician and multi-instrumentalist who studied piano before turning to traditional instruments from the East. He weaves the sounds of Turkey, Iran and Armenia into his improvisations.

Rustamas Ibadulaevas

Garma is a rock band from Kaunas, combining rebellious hard rock with elements of American dark country and blues. For the Kaunas Blues audience, the band has prepared a special acoustic performance — a gentler sound, but the same energy and direct, no-nonsense lyrics.

Garma

Algis Fediajevas is an acoustic guitar shaman who describes his music as acoustic psychedelia.

Algis Fediajevas

No Lip Bush plays live, gritty and heartfelt blues that takes you to the Mississippi Delta while sounding firmly rooted in the here and now. On stage, old Delta blues, slide guitar and a sound inspired by blues legends meet the distinctive style of No Lip Bush.

No Lip Bush

A group of senior musicians performing their own distinctive local blues, passed down from generation to generation. Here, music comes not from learned scores, but from life experiences, emotions and playing together.

This group of young, professional and passionate musicians, performing klezmer, Balkan and Eastern European music, will appear with its full line-up. Their concerts are like a journey into a colourful street celebration where standing still is impossible. Rakija Klezmer Band guarantees a dose of good spirits!

Rakija Klezmer Band

Eugenijus Raugas is a blues and rock musician well known in Kaunas, whose performances combine blues tradition, improvisation and lively, heartfelt playing.

Eugenijus Raugas

Paulius Arlauskas. Psichodeliniai runkeliai.

Paulius, known by his artistic name Puka, is a painter and musician born in Šiauliai who is not afraid to experiment and break established boundaries in his work.

This blues guitar project brings together experienced musicians from Lithuania and Poland: Aleksandr Belkin (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Bogdan Topolski (Suvalkai, Poland). They have been collaborating in various blues ensembles and projects for more than ten years.

Aleksandr Belkin / Bogdan Topolski

Afrodelic makes music where African rhythms meet hip-hop, funk, dub and electronica. Frontman Viktoras Diawara brings his West African roots and many years of experience on the Lithuanian music scene to this sound. The result is rhythmic, pulsating music with a particularly powerful live impact that never lets the audience remain mere spectators.

Arklio Galia is a creative collective of several foul-mouthed men who have been blasting their insistent music into Lithuanian ears for more than two decades. These musicians can write songs about absolutely anything and change their minds more than once during a single concert about which musical style they are playing. Over the years, they have recorded more than a dozen albums and made several music videos. In their unpredictable performances, a noisy guitar gives way to a noisy saxophone, followed by noisy drums, all topped off with distinctive and not always politically correct Lithuanian lyrics. In short, an Arklio Galia concert is an experience better heard than explained.

Cabbage soup and a jam session.