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 October 5-10, deputy director of the Research Center for Polyphony, Nino Razmaze, and bagpiper players: Murad Tavartkiladze and Tornike Skhiereli visited Croatia. They got acquainted with the technology of making Croatian bagpipes and the traditions of its performance.

 

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