From Prague to Helsinki: Eastern Europe emerging from the Iron Curtain

Roger Buckton was previously professor of Music at UC. As a tour leader he has just returned from a tour which included the countries: Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland. His experiences during the tour will be discussed and illustrated against a background of historical events especially in the past 100 years. It will be supported by visual and sound examples taken from two trips that Roger will be making in 2018 and will have something of a focus on the folk and national song and dance of the regions.