Sound of the North

Music Festival

The Festival is prestigious project of the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, the event that has a still place in the cultural calendar of Gdansk and on the folk map of Poland. It presents most outstanding artists, the representatives of musical tradition of the Baltic Sea, varied in style and interchangeably defining particular cultural idioms. In fact, renaissance of the contemporary „folk” music is closely connected with the need of finding one’s own roots, reviving of the sources and strengthening regional and national individuality. The „Northern” plot of the Festival is rare in this kind of events in Poland, what effects in original climate, which is appreciated by audience and musicians.