July 29th Norwegian poet Erling Kittelsen, Latvian poet Juris Strenga, Folk singers Sinikka Langeland, Inga Juusu, Agnes Buen Garnås, Iranian musician Javid Afsari Rad and jazz saxophonist Trygve Seim perform at the prestigious Festiwal Muzyki Inspirowanej Folklorem at Gdansk in Poland.

Their performance unite old Rune songs, joiks, the Stev tradition, stanzas from the Norse litterature, Latvian daina poems and persian sufi poems. Their common ground are the old traditions of various cultures, distinctive and highly original, and yet, with fascinating similarities of old family ties.

In 2010 Sounds of the North is dedicated to Norway. During the whole week in the middle of summer Gdańsk will be a meeting place with Norwegian culture and musical tradition. Because of the great care for saving and creative interpretation of their tradition, Norwegians can be proud of many original folk bands and well educated musicians

The Festival is prestigious project of the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, the event that has a still place in the cultural calendar of Gdansk and on the folk map of Poland. It presents most outstanding artists, the representatives of musical tradition of the Baltic Sea, varied in style and interchangeably defining particular cultural idioms. In fact, renaissance of the contemporary „folk” music is closely connected with the need of finding one's own roots, reviving of the sources and strengthening regional and national individuality. The „Northern” plot of the Festival is rare in this kind of events in Poland, what effects in original climate, which is appreciated by audience and musicians.