Balkanese music group Svirki Svirjat was founded in the late 1990s for the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival, as a project by an international group of musicians

Since then the group has played at a large number of gigs, festivals and on Albanian and Bulgarian TV. Concert moods vary from melancholy Southern Slavic ballads to angry and complex Bulgarian rhythms.

Club Evening, Fully licensed bar. Doors open at 18.30. Duration 120 min., with intermission.

Ivanka Capova � vocals, Markku Luotamo � saxophone, tin whistle, Teija Niku � accordion, Antero Reinist� � guitar, Juha Levo � contrabass, Murat Ermutlu � drums

Organised by Helsinki City Cultural Office and Taiteen edist�miskeskus/Uusimaa