Station Narva: ‘The language of music and tradition is common’ | Information

The 2022 Station Narva competition kicks off on Thursday, September 8 at 17:00, with a BAZAR public dialogue, the place locals and visitors of town alike are invited to a dialogue in regards to the metropolis, entitled “Narva – what and who’s it?”

The theme appears particularly well timed, contemplating the current nationwide and worldwide focus positioned on the japanese Estonian metropolis. Nevertheless, as Anna Markova, a member of the competition’s organizing crew wrote in an ERR opinion piece earlier this week, Narva is a lot greater than a “single-issue metropolis,” with a bunch of recent and thrilling issues to find.

Displaying Narva’s range, in addition to reminding everybody, that there’s a lot extra that connects town to the remainder of Estonia, than separates it is among the key goals of this 12 months’s Station Narva, in line with the competition’s head of PR and communications Ingrid Kohtla.

“Though nearly all of the native inhabitants speaks Russian as their mom tongue, the language of music and tradition is common,” Kohtla advised ERR. “The time we spend along with one another, singing and dancing in unison, is our immunity in opposition to each division and indifference,” she mentioned.

Kohtla additionally revealed that, for her, the “not-to-be-missed decide” from the competition’s free program could be the distinctive ‘Kvartirnik’ (house live performance) efficiency by beloved troubadour Jaan Pehk, on the “cozy, bohemian house” of native journalist Mihhail Komashko.

Komashko returned to stay in Narva final 12 months, following a fireplace at his “fancy, newly-renovated house” in close by Narva-Jõesuu. Taking it as a “trace from the universe,” he determined to open up his new house, which is positioned in a “typical Stalinist venture within the post-industrial Kreenholm space,” to the general public “in all its contradictions.”

Pehk, whose music is described as “rock, with out the heartbreak, poetry with out the bloated earnestness,” is ready to play 4 units, between 11:40 and 13:00 on Saturday, September 10. In any case, Kohtla explains “the house just isn’t fairly the dimensions of a live performance corridor.”

This 12 months’s Station Narva lineup options music from an array of worldwide performers, together with Ukrainian electro-folk band ONUKA, British instrumental acid jazz trio Crimson Snapper, alongside lately reformed Estonian hip-hop legends A-Rühm and prog-rockers Mahavok.

Whereas ONUKA warmed up for Station Narva with pre-party present at Tallinn’s Sveta Bar on Wednesday, for Crimson Snapper, this will probably be their first ever efficiency in Estonia, with the band posting on saying on Instagram, that they cannot wait to play in Narva.

There’s additionally a ‘Enterprise Day,’ hosted by the OBJEKT Artistic Middle on September 9, with a deal with co-creation. These attending the occasion will probably be greeted by Minister of Public Administration Riina Solman, and a gap speech from politician and inventive entrepreneur Heidy Purga.

Different audio system on the enterprise day embody Liina Laas (associate at The Higher Fund and head of growth at Deel), Coca-Cola HBC’s head of public affairs and sustainability Darja Saar, head of the Narva Artwork Residency (NART) Johanna Rannula and Sirli Rosenvald, crew chief at Funky Meals.

The competition wraps up on Sunday September 11, when a conventional “Narva-style” breakfast will probably be served on the VitaTiim non-formal studying middle.

You’ll find out extra about Station Narva, together with ticket info and this 12 months’s full program on the competition web site here.  

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