Mari Kalkun has been named ERR's Musician of the Year.
Kalkun will be presented with her award at a live concert to be broadcast via ERR's Culture portal next Wednesday, January 13.
A prolific musician with an international reach who has performed in Europe, the U.S. and Japan, Kalkun's 2018 offering "Ilmamõtsan" (""in the wood of the world" in the Võro language – ed.) was chosen in the top 10 world music albums of the year by critics from U.K. broadsheet the
Her sixth album "Õunaaia album" ("Apple Orchard Album") was released last year.
Kalkun is the first world musician to be awarded ERR's Musician of the Year, though her roots are very much Estonian, particularly from South Estonia where she both lives and has her own, and ancestral, roots, regularly performing across Võru County.