Spring has sprung: Euroradio folk offer celebrates the season in song
24 mars 2016![Spring has sprung: Euroradio folk offer celebrates the season in song](https://www.ebu-cdn.ch/sites/ebu/files/News/2016/03/FolkEasterProject2016.jpg/thumbnail-512.webp)
Euroradio is pleased to launch its annual Spring and Easter Folk Project, which is available to all EBU Members and Associates for download from M2M (FM/16/03/01/01- password only).
For 2016, the extremely varied contributions include:
- Russian Easter songs, traditionally performed by musicians wandering from house to house (pictured)
- A harp solo played by its 15-year-old Austrian composer
- A three-part women’s harmony group from Ireland
- A blend of jazz and Moravian folk music from the Czech Republic.
The 17 participating Euroradio broadcasters for the Spring and Easter Folk Project are:
PRA (Armenia), ORF (Austria), BNR (Bulgaria), HRTR (Croatia), CR (Czech Republic), ERR (Estonia), ARD/BR (Germany), ERT (Greece), RTÉ (Ireland), RTM (Moldova), RTP (Portugal), ROR (Romania). RTR-Radio Russia (Russia), RTS (Serbia), RTVS (Slovakia), SR (Sweden), NTU (Ukraine).
More details on each country's contribution can be found in the attached tracklisting.