Old Forest Echoes

Event Calendar 2026

6.3. — Sipoo, Finland
27.3. — Porvoo, Finland
11.4. — Circus Lounge Turku, Finland
23.-24.5. — Koroinen, Garden Festival, Finland
14.6. — Brno, Czechia
18.6. — Praha, Czechia
20.6. — Napajedla Solstice Festival, Czechia
25.6. — Akcent & Barbora Xu: Lidove Sady, Liberec, Czechia
1.7.-12.7.  Forest Residency, Waldhof Freiburg, Germany
27.-31.7. — Festival Folk Holidays Namest nad Oslavou, Czechia
8.8. — Norpas festival, Finland
9.8. — Norpas festival, Finland
15.8. — Aalistunturi Forest concert, Finland
20.8. — Paateri church, Finland
22.8. — Haarikko Forest concert, Finland
30.8. — Stansvik Forest concert, Finland
5.9. — Helsinki, Finland
6.9. — Turku, Finland
19.9. — Waldhof Freiburg, Germany
23.9. — Sibelius Museo, Finland‍

Forest Concerts

After composing music in the threatened old growth forests, Barbora holds a limited number of concerts in those very places.
A forest concert consists of a nature walk and a concert. The forest path to the concert stage is marked with landart created by a renowned international artist Wiebke Pandikov, who creates a visual art using local materials. The landart, as it is created using natural materials exclusively, will be left in the forest to degrade with the rhythm of seasons and become a part of the local landscape.
During the forest walk, the audience meets forest expert and learns about the story of the local forest. It is an interactive experience which allows the visitors a peak into the forest music composition techniques and offers a personal experience in a forest we rarely ever get to visit.
Come to experience something special and make a bond with the kind of forest our ancestors knew and guarded.
Event lenght:  6 hrs

Venue concerts

‍While forest concerts are unique and offer a direct connection for people in the nature, our mission is to bring the esence of these stunning areas inspiring our work to the audiences in urban settings as well. The venue concerts are our tool to do that and are catered to fit the particular venues, festivals, events.

Venue concert is a music performance on a stage, using soundscape recordings and projections to complement the music itself and to deepen the multisensory experience of the audience. Creating an immersive sound experience, live performance is set into a surround soundscape system.
Performance lenght: 60mins

Soundscape installation
Using the sounds captured in the old growth forests, the project sound artist Mikko Haapoja prepares a soundscape installation which stands separately from concert performance. It is accompanied by visuals of an accomplished documentary and film maker Ville Tanttu.  

Workshops
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As our forest concerts include an interactive walk through the old growth forest to the forest venue, we also offer a direct forest music workshop experience for people who are interested in music making, the forest and want to learn more about the forest composition methods. We provide workshops for music school students and also for wider public at festivals, venues and events.
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The workshops include a guided tour in the forest by a forest expert and a music composition workshop held by the main artist and composer, Barbora Silhanova. The work we do together focuses on offering new perspectives on nature as a place of inspiration, connection, musicality of common sounds and recording of sound for music making. The event includes a short music performance by Barbora.
Event lenght: 2hrs