The two-year project “The Network of European Bagpipers” is implemented by the Erasmus+ program and unites the representatives of 6 countries. The aim of the project is to safeguard and to promote specific part of ICH (bagpipes playing and making tradition).

In the framework of the project, on June 5-10, the director of the Research Center for Polyphony, Nino Razmaze, and bagpiper player Levan Berelidze visited Spain. They got acquainted with the technology of making Spanish bagpipes and the traditions of its performance.

The project was completed, which meant visiting the representatives of all six countries, making the bagpipes and promoting the tradition of playing it.

 

Project partners are:

• Suiti Cultural Heritage Foundation (Latvia) – Coordinating partner;

• Centre of Croatian traditional instruments (Croatia);

• Associazione culturale Multietnica (Italy);

• Asociación Gaiteros de Graus (Spain);

• Cech slovenskych gajdosov (Slovakia);

• Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire (Georgia)

See the booklet