Doors 19:00 / Start 21:00 / Donation

Edgars Rubenis

experimental ragtime / Cēsis, Latvia

Edgars Rubenis is a Latvian composer and guitarist whose work engages with traditions of early blues and ragtime resulting in bold and contemporary instrumental music.

His three album project Pains and Boogies has been published by dis ce que in the Netherlands and contains albums Slow Lightning (2022), Sea Unbound (2023) and Shelterbelt (2025).

With background in experimental rock music and contemporary composition Rubenis shifted to working with acoustic guitar in 2020.

Since then his music has been featured on London’s Resonance FM radio, in concerts along with the Welsh guitarist Gwenifer Raymond, Kadonnut Manner from Finland, and on various festivals and tours in France, UK, Sweden, Belgium, The Netherlands and the Baltics.

www.edgarsrubenis.lv

https://www.instagram.com/sinebursragde/

Pan Salmenhaara

Ragtime Blues / from Finland, based in Berlin

Pan Salmenhaara (b. 1962 in Helsinki, Finland) has studied music and guitar-playing at various institutes in Finland, and played guitar not only as a solo act, but also with various blues and jazz formations: Pan’s Blues Band, Thin Pan Alley, Fujitsu Jazz Allstars (Numazu, Japan), Jazz Partout, and Swing du Nord.

Salmenhaara has performed alone or with the abovementioned bands at most of Finland’s important jazz- and blues festivals, for example at Pori Jazz, Turku Jazz, Linnajazz, Rauma Blues, and Wiapori Winter Blues.

As a solo artist Salmenhaara has specialized in the ragtime and country blues guitar styles of the 1920’s & 30’s.

From February 2010 on Salmenhaara is living in Berlin, Germany.

http://www.reverbnation.com/pansalmenhaara

http://www.youtube.com/user/mickragger/videos

https://soundcloud.com/pan-salmenhaara

https://www.facebook.com/profile?id=100062968732041

https://www.instagram.com/pansalmenhaara/

Paulina Panik (DJ-Set)

Paulina Panik is a DJ, curator, and music coordinator with experience in London, Paris and Berlin’s vibrant nightlife.

Known for her eclectic style, she blends alternative genres—from New Wave, Post-Punk, Electro, and Electroclash to Italo disco, and Techno—crafting mood-driven sets that blur the boundaries of sound.

https://www.instagram.com/paulina_panik/