On February 13, we invite you on a musical journey through old Europe!

For the program „Senosios Europos tautų melodijos“, singer Renata Dubinskaitė has gathered the most beautiful Spanish, Portuguese, Sephardic (Spanish Jewish), French, Italian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, German, Norwegian, English, Irish, and other traditional melodies—folk songs and works by unknown authors that closely echo the spirit of folk music. The concert will begin with the oldest surviving melody, carved into stone during the days of Ancient Greece. Other songs were transcribed and included in musical collections published between the 16th and 18th centuries, though many endured simply by being passed from lip to lip, generation to generation. Having survived for centuries, some of these songs have crossed geographical boundaries and are now widely known throughout Europe.

This concert is a musical journey across the old continent, a chance to acquaint yourself with melodies unique to different nations and the stories of love and war, life’s joys and hardships, and faith, handed down through song. In this program, early and folk music is interpreted through a fusion of different styles. Alongside R. Dubinskaitė, this program will be performed by classical guitarist, composer, and singer Chris Ruebens (Belgium / Lithuania), who prepared the song arrangements, while Remis Rančys (saxophones, flutes, melodica, percussion) will enrich the performance with jazz improvisations.