The Band

Mindaugas is an international dance instructor, performer and a musician from Lithuania. He started dancing in 2006. In 2008 he formed a traditional jazz dancer band “Rhythm Junkies” and in 2011 “Home Jazz Five” now known as “Home Jazz Band”. Inspired by dancing his bands have different jazz era’s sounds and specialises to play for dancers. Mindaugas is a self taught musician, though music is deep in his family roots. His grandfather was a great Lithuanian accordion, violin and piano player and his father was a great Lithuanian Traditional Folk Music representative, clarinet and a Lithuanian Folk wind instrument Birbynė player, that wrote hundreds of folk arrangements and dedicated his life teaching and popularising folk music. Mindaugas has played with many swing and traditional jazz bands all around the world (Cassidy and the Orlean Kids, Gordon Webster, Smoking Time Jazz Band, Jumbo Shrimp Jazz Band, Aurora Nealand and The Royal Roses, European Swing Dance Championship Orchestra etc).

I am Marius Zaremba. The band's clarinetist. I have been with the group since its creation, and I started my musical journey when I was six, when I entered the National M.K. Čiurlionis Art School. I also studied LMTA. I got my bachelor's degree in performing arts there. During my studies, I performed with a retro jazz trio, where I tried to acquire the first knowledge of improvisation. At that time, I was also active in hip-hop culture. With the group "Eazee Shoq" we recorded the album "Retrospektyva" in 2009. I also started creating electronic music, which was included in the collection "Ritmo Kovos". Since 2008, with some convincing from my colleague and friend Mindaugas, I joined the swing ensemble "Rhythm Junkies", with which we released three albums and toured half of Europe. Ten years ago we formed a new group "Home Jazz Band". I am also a journalist in TV shows and projects.

Lithuanian trumpeter and improviser Dominykas Vyšniauskas is famous as a skilled and versatile musician who grew up surrounded by a wide variety of music. While exploring the foundations of musical styles, he constantly seeks to find possible spaces in which improvisation can occur.

D. Vyšniauskas participated in most Lithuanian jazz festivals and festivals abroad. As a participant in various international projects, the trumpeter has toured throughout Europe, Iceland, Canada and the USA.

D. Vyšniauskas studied at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater (Vilnius), Leipzig College of Music, New York's SUNY Purchase College and Amsterdam Conservatory.

He currently works in the Latvian Radio Big Band, teaches at the Kaunas Academy of Music of the VMU University and the J. T. Kelpša Conservatory of Music in Vilnius.

He joined the team in 2013.

He graduated from the Vilnius Juozos Tallat-Kelpšas Conservatory and the Faculty of Arts of the Vilnius College.

Since the beginning of his studies, he has performed with the most active traditional jazz groups in Vilnius. He gained experience in many of the most famous Lithuanian scenes.

With several collectives, including the Home Jazz Band, he toured a number of European festivals.

Performed and recorded albums with such groups as The Schwings, Andrej Polevikov Trio, The Swing Cats, The Gypsons, Ella Fitzgerald Tunes and many others.

He has been a professional music teacher for 15 years.

Mindaugas Bikauskas | Guitar/Vocals

Marius Zaremba | Clarinet

Dominykas Vyšniauskas | Trumpet

Denis Murašov | Upright Bass

Augustas Baronas | Drums

August has performed on some of the world's most famous stages, including festivals such as North Sea Jazz and Umbria Jazz. During his career as a professional drummer, he has recorded more than 20 different albums, from jazz to experimental electronica, and has won various competitions as a drummer and with bands.
From a young age, he started performing with the big band of his music school, in which he played percussion, electric bass and drums at various times, and often performed at jazz festivals in Lithuania and abroad.
Immediately after high school, August went to study in the Netherlands, where he completed his undergraduate studies at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague under European jazz master Eric Ineke, who taught him the intricacies of hard-bop and bebop drumming and showed a love and passion for jazz music that paved the way for his future career. August continued his studies at the Amsterdam Conservatory where he studied with Martijn Vink and Marcel Serierse, further improving his sound and delving into alternative and modern jazz drumming.
In 2017, Augustas made Vilnius his home base, where he performs with famous Lithuanian jazz musicians Dainius Pulauskas, Jievars Jasinskis and Dom Aleksas. During his career, August has performed at various festivals and concert venues in Switzerland, Italy, Egypt, Spain, Sweden, India, Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine and many others.

• Ljublijana Sweet Swing Festival 2012 (Liubliana, Slovenia)

• Minsk Lindy Exchange 2012 (Minsk, Belarus)

• Swinglandia Dance Festival 2012 (Kiev, Ukraine)

• Harlem 2012 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• Tamsta Muzika 2012 (Varėna, Lithuania)

• Thenola Dance Camp 2012 (Thenola, Finland)

• Rock That Swing 2013 (Munich, Germany)

• Ljublijana Sweet Swing Festival 2013 (Liubliana, Slovenia)

• Swinglandia Dance Festival 2013 (Kiev, Ukraine)

• Harlem 2013 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• Dragon Swing Festival 2013 (Cracow, Poland)

• Swingin’ Milan 2013 (Milan, Italy)

• All Lithuanian Weekend 2014 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• Warsaw Lindy Exchange 2014 (Warsaw, Poland)

• Harlem 2014 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• All Lithuanian Weekend 2015 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• Harlem 2015 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• Warsaw Lindy Exchange 2015 (Warsaw, Poland)

• All Lithuanian Weekend 2016 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• Swingscouts at Kurhaus Bergün 2016 (Bergün, Switzerland)

• Leapin’ Lindy Festival 2016 (Bern, Switzerland)

• Harlem 2016 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• World Jam 2016 (Madrid, Spain)

• All Lithuanian Weekend 2017 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• Swing Paradise Festival 2017 (Vinius, Lithuania)

• Ballydehob Jazz Festival 2017 (Ballydehob, Cork, Ireland)

• Harlem 2017 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• Swing Challange 2017 (Kopenhagen, Denmark)

• All Lithuanian Weekend 2017 2nd Edition (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• Swing Paradise Festival 2018 (Vinius, Lithuania)

• Ballydehob Jazz Festival 2018 (Ballydehob, Cork, Ireland)

• Uptown Rhythm Festival 2018 (Vinius, Lithuania)

• All Lithuanian Weekend 2018 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• Leapin’ Lindy 2019 (Bernas, Switzerland)

• Swing Paradise Festival 2019 (Vinius, Lithuania)

• Uptown Rhythm 2019 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• All Lithuanian Weekend 2019 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• Uptown Rhythm 2020, Online Edition (Vilnius, Lithuania)
  All Lithuanian Weekend 2020 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• Uptown Rhythm 2021, (Vilnius, Lithuania)
  All Lithuanian Weekend 2021 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• Uptown Rhythm 2022, (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• All Lithuanian Weekend 2022 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• Uptown Rhythm 2023, (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• Tartu Swing 2023 (Tartu, Estonia)

• All Lithuanian Weekend 2023 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• Fast Swing Weekend 2023 (Tallin, Estonia)

• Uptown Rhythm 2024, (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• All Lithuanian Weekend 2024 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

• Vilnius Shag Festival 2024 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

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