Voi tu bitute in Marcinkonys (Acoustic)

In 1912, Finnish folklorist A.R.Niemi travelled to Valkininkai, Lithuania, as part of his research collecting wax cylinder recordings of Lithuanian folk songs. Honeypaw acquired the unpublished recordings from the Finnish Literature Society in 2023, and this year we received funding from the Lithuanian Council for Culture to study the recordings and present material in the original villages where Niemi collected them.
Niemi intended to study the connection between Finnic and Baltic cultures, but he first had to conduct field collection of Lithuanian folklore. In his collected writings, he discusses various Finnic and Baltic songs and texts that he believes are connected. Honeypaw uses his work as a jumping off point for our arrangements.

Voi tu bitute asks the bee where it has been flying, and the bee responds that it has been through the forest carrying honey. It the Finnish text, we ask the bee to travel over 9 seas, and from the 10th, return with honey.

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Past Performance Highlights:
October 22, 2025 – Northern Turtle Island Collective B2BBQ, Ravintola Telakka, Tampere (FI)
July 8-10, 2025 – Kaustinen Music Festival, Kaustinen (FI)
August 9-10, 2025 – Live from the Rock Folk Festival, Red Rock (CA)
October 11-29, 2024 –Songs Sealed in Wax Tour: Vilnuis, Kaunas, Utena, Valkininkai, Marcinkonys, Biržai, Nemunėlio Radviliškis (LT)
August 10-11, 2024 – Kingsville Music Festival, Kingsville (CA)
September 23, 2023 – Nuit blanche at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto (CA)
May 20, 2023 – Pajot Festival, Kontiolahti, (FI)
August 27, 2022 –Mėnuo Juodaragis Festival XXII, Dūburys Island, (LT)
September 25-26, 2021 – Festival Terre Ferme, Godmanchester (CA)
December 4, 2020 – Estonian Music Week, Toronto (CA)

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