Harry Bent & Friends / Jaak Johanson Stage • Viljandi Folk Music Festival 2023

Harry Bent & Friends will perform at 30th Viljandi Folk Music Festival on Jaak Johanson Stage!

There are a limited number of single tickets available for the indoor concerts at the festival (St. John's church, Baptist church and Jaak Johanson Stage).

NB! Festival pass, youngster's pass, senior pass, day pass of 2023 Viljandi Folk Music Festival grant the access to all indoor concerts on the first come, first served basis. 

About the artist:

Harry came to Estonia in 1985 as a soloist of Korkkijalka. The band was an important part of the wave of Irish culture in Finland that started at that time, but also of the new revival of Finnish traditional music. The musicians were also skilled players and teachers of Finnish folk music. An architect by profession, Harry started teaching Irish singing at the Sibelius Academy in addition to making bands.
The warm connection with the Johansons, which was formed during the trip to Tallinn, was not broken, and Harry and another Irish poet and musician Dave Murphy, who lived in Finland at the time, have remained frequent guests in Estonia. In 1993, the duo was the first foreign collective at the first Viljandi festival.
In imagination, Jaak Johanson is also on stage – why and what he sang and what we sang with him is still there. In our ears, fingers and hearts.