Street Music Day returns to Vilnius - a celebration when everyone who wants and knows how to play goes out into the streets, squares and squares. May 21 the streets of the capital will be drowned in the sounds of various music, and the spectators of the festival will enjoy the performances created by the musicians.
This year's Street Music Day will be dedicated to Ukraine. According to Viktorija Mamontovaitė, the organizer of the event, such a decision was determined by the desire to support Ukraine in the fight for freedom.
"Music is a universal language - everyone understands it. Street Music Day is a great platform to talk about what is happening right now in Ukraine. We bring back 2014 for the visual. The poster created by Tad Černiauskas, Deimantė Litvinaitė and Aistė Jūres for Street Music Day to draw attention to the war that has been going on for 8 years. We cannot stop and must support the Ukrainian people defending their freedom in every possible way. It hurts to see a great nation being destroyed so mercilessly", said V. Mamontovaitė.
The organizers of the festival say that GMD is a very important festival in Ukraine, which was attended by about 60 cities every year, so it is expected that Ukrainian musicians who are currently in Lithuania will not be afraid to join the street scene. On May 21, everyone is invited to go to the streets and play music - amateurs and professionals, regardless of whether they play rock, pop music or traditional music.
As every year, Street Music Day in Vilnius will start at 12 o'clock. All shows and a map can be found on the GMD website or on the free walking app #walk15. The creator of the app, Vlada Musvydaitė-Vilčiauskė, is happy that the Street Music Day opens up the opportunity to combine walking with engaging educational activities.
"The app was born as a tool to encourage you to go and explore. We are very happy that the Street Music Day map placed in it every year becomes like a route, encouraging people to go out not only to move or to look at their city with a new perspective, but also to discover music", says V.Musvydaitė-Vilčiauskė.
The program organized by the bars "BIX", Artistai" and "šPUNKa", the nightly selection of artists of the Vilnius Hive, the performances organized by the cool Mickevičius library, have not disappeared from the map of Vilnius Street Music Day. For the first time in the history of GMD, the holiday will be greeted by a symbolic flight of one of the acrobatic flying team "Iron Wolf Aerobatics" over Vilnius, congratulating Vilnius residents and guests of the city on the GMD and inviting everyone to take off for the freedom of Ukraine.
LRT OPUS music will be broadcast by radio waves from the Užupis Arts Incubator
LRT OPUS continues the tradition and returns to GMD with a new integration and interactive program. This time, radio listeners will be treated to live sound from the Užupis Arts Incubator: 16.00:XNUMX p.m. the beginning of the broadcast will treat the ears of the listeners with the work of the singer and songwriter Ingaja, and a little later she will be replaced by Jausmė, the winner of the "Novus" competition for young groups, who will bewitch everyone who hears her music with her distinctive sound and shrill sounds.
The Vilnius Castle Reserve invites you to special excursions
Representatives of the Vilnius Castle Reserve invite you to free tours of the historical place of Vilnius - Vilnius Castle. Two excursions are planned, both of which will start from the Gediminas monument On the Cathedral Square. The first excursion (in Lithuanian) will start on May 21 at 13:00 p.m. (registration here), and the second (in Russian, for for Ukrainians) - May 21, 16:00 p.m. (registration here). Registration is required to participate. During the tour, you will walk around the territory of the Vilnius castles, at the foot of the Castle Hill, and climb up to the Gediminas Castle - places where incessant battles and many events took place for centuries, gradually leading the city from the capital founded in the time of Duke Gediminas to the present day.
The JUDU team invites you to move green through GMD
The JUDU team invites residents and guests of the city to use sustainable transport: buses, trolleybuses, bicycles, scooters or on foot. Festivals like Street Music Day gather thousands of people in one part of the city, so if you arrive to the action in the city center by car and get stuck in a traffic jam or can't find a place to park, the cheerful and festive mood can be replaced by disappointment and even anger. Let's move green - let's not pollute Street Music Day with car exhaust and leave parking spaces for musicians' performances.
Two musical processions will take place in Vilnius
Vilnius Street Music Day will not be complete without the very important march of wind instruments organized by "Drum2gether" and "Mood Sellers" group, which have already become a tradition. The latter will invite you to join a whirlwind of wind instruments inspired by the culture of New Orleans, and the thunderous mass drum improvisation-procession "Drum2gether" crowning the whole Street Music Day will unite musicians and spectators in one stormy frenzy of rhythm.
Dūzgės will accompany GMD to next year
After the last chords of the 16th Street Music Day have sounded, we invite you to gather at the Summer Terrace and accompany GMD into the next year. We will surrender to the magic of electronic music and as one big family, we will celebrate the end of another GMD with one beat. The event starts at 20.00:XNUMX p.m. , free entry.
After putting aside their instruments, three music connoisseurs will stand at the DJ console: Šarukas Joneikis from the band Garbanotas, Solo Ensemble delegate Jonas Šarkus and DDL PLK (Big Hair) Minister for DJ Affairs Paulius Šaparnis together with Justus Rutkauskas.
There will be temporary traffic restrictions
During the festival, to ensure the safety of Vilnius residents and guests of the city, there will be temporary traffic restrictions on the streets - due to the concert being organized near the building on Etmonų st. 6, vehicle traffic will be prohibited.
Pedestrian traffic will increase in certain parts of the city. From 12 to 22 p.m. musicians will play on Vilniaus Street, the part of Gediminas Avenue from Vilnius to Šventaragis Street, University, Užupis, Maironis, Didižioja, Vokiečių, Rūdninkai, Subačiaus, L. Stuokas-Gucevičiaus, Barbora Radvilaitė, St. Jono, on the streets of the Castle, in Šventaragis valley, in the town hall square, in the squares of Konstantinos Sirvydas, Tibet, Odminiu and Stanislaus Moniuskas, Cathedral Square, as well as in the square near Gediminas ave. 9. From 20 to 22 p.m. there will be a performance of drummers "Dum2gether" in Cathedral Square.
