April Jazz Club + WeeGee is a series of intimate concerts in museum surroundings. The series is a co-production between April Jazz Club, Exhibition Centre WeeGee and EMMA.

Kestutis Vaiginis (sax) and Joonas Haavisto (pno) are one of the most renowned jazz musicians from Lithuania and Finland. These stellar musicians´ history goes back to 2006 when they met in Lithuania at one of the biggest piano competitions Jazz Improvizacija Joonas took part and won the 1st prize.

After that Vaiginis and Haavisto began rehearsing and performing together, quickly establishing a strong musical connection. For over 15 years they have performed as a duo, quartet and soloists for chamber orchestras. Both musicians are leading also their own groups and have played worldwide in venues like Blue Note Jazz Club NY, Tokyo Jazz Festival and North Sea Jazz Festival.

The new album MOON BRIDGE will be released in 2024, recorded in October 2022 at the Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway. Moon Bridge album has mainly original compositions by Vaiginis and Haavisto and features two jazz standards from Wayne Shorter and Billy Strayhorn. The sound of the duo varies from sacral spaces to wild flacks with different combinations of the grand piano, Fender Rhodes, soprano and tenor saxophone. The dynamic duo of Nordic and Baltic gives the listener crystal clear melodies and melancholy with some wild bubbling grooves.

Admission to EMMA is free on every Friday from 3 pm onwards.

From September to April on first Friday of each month EMMA has extended opening hours and is open from 11 until 21.