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The Trutamora Slovenica ensemble is intended for the revival of Slovene folk musical heritage and presents both the instrumental and vocal, as well as the vocal-instrumental Slovene folk music of the past and more recent times.

 In the year 2008, the 30th year of our activities, members joined the performing abilities of all three ensembles - Trutamora Slovenica, Truta, and Vedun - in a single ensemble named VEDUN in which the musicians through meditation and in a transcendental state of consciousness perform folk songs and tunes of different spiritual traditions, enriching them with a unique and unrepeatable medium channelled healing sound always flowing through them spontaneously. Woven together into a unified sound fabric are the sound, spiritual message and wisdom of the ancestors, thus representing Slovenian, European and global musical and spiritual heritage.

In 2008 the ensemble has celebrated the 30th anniversary of performing at concerts Slovene folk songs and presenting folk instruments. The ensemble had its origins in the duo Omerzel-Terlep (Mira Omerzel-Terlep and Matija Terlep, with guests) who since 1971 have collected folk instruments and sound-producing implements and presented them all over the world. The concert activity is based on ethno-musicological researches into Slovene folk instruments and sound-performing implements, performed by Mira Omerzel-Mirit, Ph.D. (in 2006, 35 years passed since the beginning of her ethno-musicological research work) and on a large collection of instruments (more than 200), of proper antique items as well as reconstructions.

The ensemble occasionally gives concerts also with guest musicians and it performs the role of a curator in the gallery of folk sounds, practically reviving archival and fieldwork sound-records and thus presenting the musical tradition of the twentieth and the past centuries. At the turn of the millennium the members of the Trutamora Slovenica and their guests established two more ensambles: Truta and Vedun.

The ensemble presents Slovene musical heritage – instruments and songs, tunes and dances – at concerts: as children animation concerts, as lectures with sound illustrations, and as concerts with commentaries, etc., aiming at a very wide range of public (of unlimited age), from pre-school children to university population.

 

 



































The TRUTAMORA symbol

The TRUTAMORA is an old Slovene name for the apotropaic sign of a pentagram that the Slovenes used to paint on the front board of a cradle to protect a new-born baby from a nightmare (trutta). In accordance with this symbolism, the ensemble that bears the same name, tries to put Slovene folk music into the "cradle" of the youngest generation, so that by learning about their own tradition young could avoid the pains of a chaotic search for their own identity (mora).