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Estonian Music Week’s December 4th Live-Stream: Celebrating Mutual Nordic Heritage with Lithuanian-Finnish Folk Duo Honeypaw

nov. 20, 2020 Estonian Life No. 47 2020


Estonian Music Week is continuing to present music of many varieties for audiences through its Live-Stream Concert Series. On Friday December 4th at 7:00 PM, on the Estonian Music Week Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/EstonianMusicWeek/) or the VEMU YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/VEMUESC) the series will take a slightly different angle, through an exciting collaboration with the Finnish Studies Program at the University of Toronto. The event also acknowledges Finnish Independence Day on December 6th.

The live-stream will encompass lectures, talks, and comments from the University's Professor of Finnish Studies, Anu Muhonen, and Chief Archivist of the Estonian Studies Centre/VEMU, Piret Noorhani. Noorhani is also Festival Director for Estonian Music Week.
Jurgita Žvinklytė and Matti Palonen of Honeypaw

Following this, there will be a musical performance from the duo Honeypaw, whose sound is steeped in traditional Lithuanian and Finnish musical and literary motifs. Honeypaw's members are Jurgita Žvinklytė, from Lithuania, and Matti Palonen, who is of Finnish heritage. Žvinklytė and Palonen met in March 2019, but it was the start of the first lockdown in 2020 when “back-burner stuff became front-burner stuff” as Palonen explains.

(Read more: Estonian Life No. 46 2020 paber- and PDF/digi)

Written by Vincent Teetsov, Toronto

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