Rainbow Strings 22. - 29. juni 2008 i Petrozavodsk
Her er foreløpig informasjon fra Anatoli:
Hi, everybody!
We have been investigating possibilities for holding Rainbow Strings 2008 in Petrozavodsk.
We have found a nice youth and children hostel place and already made preliminary agreements with the managers of the hostel. Maria was there with inspection and she liked what she saw. The conditions are very good, newly built or newly repaired.
The specifications as follows:
- 500 RUR a day per person
- 3 people per room
- 5 meals a day
- two concert halls for rehearsing
- 17 km from Petrozavodsk by lakeshore
- at that time there will be no people outside RS project
- there are places for 120 people but they say it would be ok if we have min 70 people
- time is week 26, with arrival on Sunday June 22
We have just been to a folk festival of Finno-Ugrian nations and made contacts with some interesting groups from Udmurtia and Komi. They also want to come.
Our request is:
- please, let us know as soon as possible how many people may come;
- please, discuss ways of joint financing.
BR
Anatoli Stikhin
Post Box 27
185002 Petrozavodsk Karelia Russia
Cell phone +7 905 299 56 66
Rainbow Strings 25.06.-01.07. 2007
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Rainbow Strings 2007 i Lycksele. Deltakerne kommer fra Sverige, Norge, Estland og Russland Lycksele feirer 400 år. Konserter på Hedlunda Gård, Lycksele kirke, Gammalplatsen, buekorps gjennom sentrum, spillemannstreff og buskspill. Alt kjempebra organisert av våre svenske venner og musikere Siw Burmann og Ole Berggren
Se også http://www.lycksele400.se/
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Også i 2006 vil Toppen Sommermusikkskole være
vertskap for Rainbow Strings
Program follows the schedule of the whole course.
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Rainbow Strings – ”The musical bridge of the Blue Road”
Øst-Finland 3.-10. juli 2005
Rainbow Strings ble arrangert for 4. gang i 2005. Denne gangen foregikk det i Finland, som er med i samarbeidet for første gang. Kajakka, en finsk paraplyorganisasjon som organiserer ulike kulturaktiviteter, tok på seg Rainbow Strings i år. Det ble framføring av musikk bl.a. på den samtidige store folkemusikkfestivalen Kihaus, og ellers i byen Joensuu og omegn med unge deltakere fra Finland, Nordland, Västerbotten og russiske Karelen. Det er svært gledelig at et slikt samarbeid mellom musikkinteressert ungdom i nordiske naboområder og Nordvest-Russland har fått utvikle seg på en så fin måte. Utgangspunktet er Rana og Vefsn kommuners vennskapssamarbeid med kommunene Petrozavodsk og Lycksele. Etter hvert har det utviklet seg til å omfatte både venner og venners venner – innen Nordland, og nå i Øst-Finland.
Toppen Summer
School of
Music
in Mosjøen in the county of Nordland, Norway is an international summer school of music being organised every year for 90-100 children and youth during one week, from about 15th August. The participants usually are 8-20 of age, playing string instruments or piano. There are rehearsals in various orchestras, chamber ensembles, individual lessons and master classes, improvisation workshop, music theory, and folk music from the participants’ countries.
The last years about 30 have come from abroad, most of them from abroad, from Sweden, Finland, Russia, The Netherlands, Scotland, South Africa and Serbia & Montenegro. The Netherlands and Serbia-Montenegro. The conductors and teachers of music are Norwegian and from the participating countries. They are amongst the best available teachers for young people. They also work very well together and wish to come back, year after year.
Rainbow Strings
is the beautiful name of a festival, arisen from a close friendship between young people playing folk music and classic music in the Russian republic of Karelia, North Karelia in Finland, Västerbotten län (county) in Sweden and Nordland fylke (county) in Norway. They mainly play string instruments and traditional folk music instruments, and also sing and dance.
Small festivals have been arranged by turn by a network of voluntary working enthusiasts in the four countries: In Lycksele in 2002, in Mo i Rana and Petrozavodsk in 2003 on the occasion of the 300 year anniversary of Petrozavodsk, in Mosjøen in 2004 as a part of Toppen Summer School of Music, and in Joensuu/Rääkkylä in 2005 as a part of
Kihaus, ’s second biggest folk music festival.
The aim of Rainbow Strings is primarily to gather in joint orchestras making as many performances as possible for people. For the Rainbow Strings “movement” music also is a gateway for better knowledge and appreciation of the compound culture within the four adjacent countries – for the participants and their creative teachers. Rainbow Strings also represent a “school” of co-operation, respect and friendship amongst young people, forming the basis of public and voluntary efforts and a closer neighbourhood.
Nobody should be astonished by our good results so far – culture bearers often lead the way in the direction of ordinary people’s contact internationally, and it’s a good idea and a rewarding task indeed to start with the coming generation!
In 2006
Toppen Summer School will be arranged 14th-20th August, with the Rainbow Strings festival as an integrated part of it. We expect participants from all the above-mentioned countries. The orchestras and ensembles for string and tangent instruments will be maintained, and of course folk music from the Nordic countries and
Karelia will be paid particular attention to this year. Like 2005 we also expect a group from
Fort
William ,
West Highland in , playing classic music and Scottish folk music.
The foreign participants will bring with them their music and teachers, and make performances, but mostly they will rehearse and play each other’s music together. This year we for the first time also invite youth playing wind instruments, trying to put together a symphonic orchestra. There will be at least 12 concerts totally. The big final concert will be on 19th August. On 20th August everybody will be invited to attend a music cruise to the
island of
Vega , which is now on Unesco’s list of world inheritance.
Thanks to the Barents Secretariat.
The very most of the participants at the Toppen Music School of Music and the Rainbow Strings Festival belonging to this, live within the Barents region, or close to it. The most faithful contributor has been the Barents Secretariat. We are sincerely grateful for their decisive financial grants, making the participation from all the countries possible, regardless of individual financial ability.
(Knut Solber
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