MAIMU JÕGEDA

Maimu Jõgeda is an Estonian accordionist lighting up the world with her unique and reflective style of playing. With roots from the southern part of Estonia, she has always been interested in folk music. One day these traditional music influences sparked her own tradition and she started to write her own music. In the summer of 2017 she released her debut album Pühendus (‘Dedication’) and following with second album “The one about…” just 3 years later. “The one about…” (2020) consists of 9 compositions of her own and 3 Estonian bagpipe tunes, all of them arranged & played solo by herself. Maimu was nominated for best contemporary folk artist at the Estonian Ethno Music Awards 2020. She describes her music as meditative, letting the listener travel through the fantasy worlds that the music creates. Past five years she has been living in the Nordics and her new compositions have a strong influence from these times. Jõgeda is an internationally active musician who’s honesty and warm heart will surely be noticed as she walks on the stage.