--- title: "Estonian folk duo Puuluup tours the US" id: "65977" type: "post" slug: "estonian-folk-duo-puuluup-tours-the-us" published_at: "2022-09-14T22:45:50+00:00" modified_at: "2022-09-15T10:31:55+00:00" url: "https://estonianworld.com/culture/estonian-folk-duo-puuluup-tours-the-us/" markdown_url: "https://estonianworld.com/culture/estonian-folk-duo-puuluup-tours-the-us.md" excerpt: "Puuluup, an Estonian modern folk duo, comprising of Ramo Teder and Marko Veisson, is due to perform at nine concerts in the United States from […]" taxonomy_category: - "Culture" publisher: "Estonian World" language: "en-GB" author: "Silver Tambur" author_url: "https://estonianworld.com/author/silver/" --- # Estonian folk duo Puuluup tours the US ![Image](https://estonianworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Puuluup.-Photo-by-Taavi-Arus...jpg) Puuluup. Photo by Taavi Arus. By [Silver Tambur](https://estonianworld.com/author/silver/) · September 14, 2022 · [Culture](https://estonianworld.com/category/culture/) · 1 minute of reading ### Puuluup, an Estonian modern folk duo, comprising of Ramo Teder and Marko Veisson, is due to perform at nine concerts in the United States from 15 to 27 September. In Estonia, Puuluup has an ever-growing cult following, attracting fans with their somewhat surreal, choreographed performances and talharpa (bowed harp) playing. The band’s lyrics and melodies are a mixture of the band members’ musical memories and improvisation – inspiration is drawn from Estonia’s Vormsi island, Finnish jouhikko (Finnish bowed harp) repertoire, chastushkas (short Russian or Ukrainian humorous folk songs) and other elements from the musical traditions from around the world. “All kinds of random sources of inspiration are similarly important – unexpected excerpts from Polish TV series, old Estonian punk and sweetbread from Vormsi island,” the band says. ### Puuluup concerts in the US: 15 September – [BarnArts Music Series](http://www.barnarts.org/mainstage/music-on-the-farm/) / Barnard, Vermont 16 September – Milpond Live / Amherst, Massachusetts 17 September – Global Music Festival / Boston University, Massachusetts 19 September – Puuluup / Amherst, Massachusetts 22 September – [Joe’s Pub](https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2022/p/puuluup/) / New York 23 September – [¡Globalquerque!](https://www.globalquerque.org/artist-info-and-schedule) / Albuquerque, New Mexico 24 September – [Lotus Festival](https://www.lotusfest.org/festival-main/) / Bloomington, Indiana 26 September – [Global Roots Fest](https://www.thecedar.org/global-roots) / Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota 27 September – [Connecting Chords Music Festival](https://www.mfsm.us/connecting-chords-music-festival-2022/) / Kalamazoo, Michigan ## About The Author ![Avatar photo](https://estonianworld.com/wp-content/uploads/local-avatars/2/1572652467-bpfull-100x100.jpg) [Silver Tambur](https://estonianworld.com/author/silver/) Silver Tambur, co-founder and publisher of *Estonian World*, studied journalism at the University of Tartu and politics at Birkbeck, University of London. He has edited Estonian Public Broadcasting’s English news and contributed to *Business Sense*, *Deutsche Welle*, and *Radio New Zealand*. He is currently editor-in-chief of *Trialoog*, TalTech’s business and research portal. You can also follow him on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/SilverTambur) and like [his page on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/silvertamburpage/) . You can write to Silver at [silver@estonianworld.com](mailto:silver@estonianworld.com) .