They met on August 6 (International Day of the Victims of Hiroshima) at the Aland Islands to play music and exchange experience for a week.

The musicians will be participating in courses, discussions, will perform drills and will give an experimental concert entitled “Voices of Peace” at the Mariehamn Square on August 10.

The open-air concert will be organized on the sidelines of the program marking the anniversary of the Institute of Peace of the Aland Islands and aimed at disseminating and establishing peace.

The musicians’ list includes performances of jazz, folk and world music. Most of them are famous and professional musicians in their respective countries, including pianists, as well as expert musicians playing the national music instruments of the South Caucasus region (tar, udi, saz) and singers.

Tigran Ayvazyan: guitar
Emil Mammedov: piano
Karen Mkrtchyan: vocal
Mikayel Voskanyan: tar, saz, buzuk, ud
Anush Harutyunyan: violin
Ashot Voskanyan: guitar, cayon
Richard Palmer: guitar
Jokum Jaslin: guitar
Kjell Dahl: bass
Andreas Niberg: violin
Askandar Alasgarov: tryumor
Parviz Mammedov: bass guitar
Malik Mansurov: tar, saz
Shirad Fataliyev: balaban
Nazim Karimov: sound engineer

The Aland Islands will be represented by the band WhatClub. The “Islands of Peace” Festival will kick off with a concert, which forms a part of the “Voices of Peace” project co-funded by the EU Youth in Action program, the Finnish CIMO (Center for International Mobility) and the Cultural Foundation of Sweden.