Trad.Attack!
Trad.Attack! is an Estonian band. The band consists of Sandra Vabarna (torupill, vocals), Jalmar Vabarna (guitar, vocals), and Tõnu Tubli (drums, vocals). They sing in Estonian or Estonian dialects. History. Before starting the new band project in 2013, all three band members were successful as musicians on their own. The bagpipe player and vocalist Sandra Vabarna (then Sandra Sillamaa) has an academic degree in folk culture/music studies. The original idea was to form a group performing Estonian folk music inspired by old traditional folk music and contemporary music. Trad.Attack! sometimes uses samples from archive recordings  as the lead vocals and backs them with their own original rock, pop, and electronic instrumentals. At their first concert, they joked onstage about having a master plan: to be up to perform in every country in the world. Within eight years, Trad.Attack! played in 37 countries. The band played at many showcase-festivals including Tallinn Music Week (Estonia), Folk Alliance (US), V-ROX (Russia), Eurosonic (the Netherlands), Sound of the Xity and Strawberry Festival (China), Minas Musica Mundo (Brazil), WOMEX (Spain), Trans Musicales Festival (France), WOMAD (Chile), Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival (Canada), and the Woodford Folk Festival  (Queensland, Australia). The eleven tracks of their third full-length studio album "Make Your Move" (2020) extend the boundaries of the folk genre with distorted guitars, floor-filling beats and effect pedal manipulated bagpipes. They want to have a stage sound as big as a trio can produce by technical means. Drummer Tõnu Tubli plays also trombone. All songs were tested to work for big festival stage audiences as well as unplugged. They released "MYMIATURES - Songs That Never Grew Up" in 2020. It features short tracks of songs that already made it to "Make Your Move" as well as tracks  that for now have remained to an idea level. In 2021 the band released "We Miss Playing for You", an album of live recordings. Discography. Albums Extended plays Recognition. Trad.Attack! is the winner of: