Music

Since the network's very beginning, music has played an important role for ARS BALTICA: the first edition of the festival today known as the famous JazzBaltica was the official start of ARS BALTICA in 1991.

Today, there are five ARS BALTICA projects dedicated to music. Click on the project descriptions below to find out more about these projects!

Current projects

BluesBaltica

BluesBaltica (Eutin, Germany) is one of the leading festivals in Europe and the biggest blues festival in Germany. This open air festival takes place each year in May.

folkBALTICA

folkBALTICA is an international festival of national und international significance taking place in the German-Danish border region.

NORDLICHTER Biennale for Nordic Music and Arts

NORDLICHTER, the biannual festival of Nordic music and art, presents classical and new music as well as experimental cooperation projects of Berlin-based and Nordic artists.

JazzBaltica

The festival JazzBaltica (Germany) is a melting pot of known Jazz musicians and creative newcomers from the Baltic Sea Region and from all over the world.

Sounds of the North

Sounds of the North (Poland) presents original folk performers and professional musicians who have found their inspiration in traditional music and in a specific atmosphere.

Projects

"ARS BALTICA is not a bureaucratic construction for political posturing, but a concept that stands for unconventional and committed collaboration in real cooperative projects." (Rainer Haarmann, former ARS BALTICA Coordinator, 1997)

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(!) New partners wanted

The ARS BALTICA granted "Virtual Baltic Sea Library" is looking for partners, sponsors and other co-financing, at the prospect of a planned application for means of the EU culture programme.

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