Poet and rock musician Gintaras Grajauskas at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Updated 2008-08-24
4-12 August, 2008. From 4 to 12 August Gintaras Grajauskas, Lithuanian poet and musician, will be part of the Music of Language workshop, organized by the Books Across Frontiers and Scottish Poetry Library. The workshop will take place at the Crear, a former farmhouse converted to host poetry, music events, recording sessions, concerts and workshops. The workshop will be followed by the public performance in Crear, recording session and performance at the Writers’ Yurt, Edinburgh International Book Festival, on 11th of August, 7.30pm.
The aim of the workshop is set to music poems by participating poets and create a 45-minute multilingual poetry and music performance. Among the invited participants of the workshop also are Thomas A Clark (poet, Scotland), Lise Sinclair (poet, musician, Scotland), Gerry Cambridge (poet, musician, Scotland), Adalsteinn Ásberg Sigurdson (poet, Icleand) and Ástvaldur Traustason (musician, Iceland).
Gintaras Grajauskas is the singer and bass player of the band Kontrabanda in his home city Klaipėda. Although only one of the band’s five albums is properly released, Kontrabanda enjoys something of a cult following, especially among the bohemian youth of its hometown, much of it owing to Grajauskas’ wittily inventive and literate singing-rapping.
The participation of the poet in the event is supported by the Books from Lithuania and Lithuanian Embassy in the UK.
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