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News from Serbia


We are in sunny Serbia, under a beautiful blue sky and a bright spring sun.

It’s day 2 of our small tour, yesterday we played in Subotica, very close to the Hungarian border.

The blue 🔵 dot is us! Driving to the next concert!

Unexpected, inspiring, fulfilling, vibrant.

These are a few words to describe the evening. We were performing because of the kind invitation of the Siberian folk band Vedan Kolod.

A lovely venue dedicated to art and music,  a small audience with an open mind and heart, it was easy and so natural to share our world.

A world in which we look in our culture for what can create connections between people, regardless of their origins, language or culture.

Our music and concerts are a gate towards others. It’s what inspires us, and keeps us creating.

We’re not always very good at filming our tours, and travels, but this time we are filming a little bit more of this journey.

We’ve taken for granted a free world, in which travels are easy, but we can’t predict the future.

It makes every opportunity to enjoy the freedom to connect even more meaningful and precious. And worth sharing.

Last but not least, we’ll slowly be moving away from social media, and we’re experiencing how we can use more our YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@astrakanproject) as well as this website and our newsletter.

If you have any ideas and/or suggestions, feel free to use the comment section. What we loved about social media was precisely the idea of social interactions and connections.

But since it got a bit lost along the way, we’ll do what we’re the best at: use our creativity to recreate that connection in another more fulfilling way.

A galon,

Simone + Yann behind the wheel 😉

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Summer 2019… About failure, sadness and hope.


We filmed a bit in Carnac (a beautiful and magical location in the south of Brittany) where we were some days ago, we wanted to share a bit with you what we are at. If you have a look at our tour schedule, you’ll straight away notice we’re far from being over-booked for next summer, and we thought it would be fair to also share with you what has been going on. Don’t forget to subscribe to our Youtube channel if you haven’t yet ! And leave any comment that could support our moods 🙂

In case you wonder, we’re doing much better, the small tout to Catalunya and Portugal were amazing and like the medicine we needed, but we are still practicing intense self-care, as much as we can. We still have our job contracts running up until early July, but we still manage to squeeze in some creative time.
For me personally, creating and editing videos is a fun way to do something different, and stay creative, which makes me feel much better!

Thanks for reading and following our creative crazy journey, even in darker days *Simone.

Musicians' Diary

Around Europe next fall


Preparing a tour is like dreaming of the new places we’ll see, the wonderful people we’ll meet… and we are so pleased our Fall tour we’ll lead us to Luxemburg, Germany again, from West to East, UK and for the very first time to Czech Republic, in the beautiful city of Prague. (all tour dates are here)

What a great chance for a nice poster 😉 (yep! we totally love Photoshop!)

Astrakan Project  Prague world music