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Trio Mandili at the Nadezhda community centre in Veliko Tarnovo on December 2 - Georgian polyphony and panduri in the old capital

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Trio Mandili at the Nadezhda community centre in Veliko Tarnovo on December 2 - Georgian polyphony and panduri in the old capital

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Trio Mandili close the Bulgarian leg of their European tour in Veliko Tarnovo on December 2, 2026. The concert is at 6:30 p.m. at the "Nadezhda 1869" community centre, a day after the show in Plovdiv.

Tatuli Mgeladze, Tako Tsiklauri and Mariam Kurasbediani sing Georgian folk songs in polyphony, accompanied by panduri. Their path was unusual: instead of a TV talent show, fame came from a video of "Apareka" they posted online, which drew more than eight million views. International tours, collaborations and a run in the 2017 Eurovision selection followed.

Bulgarian audiences have known them since 2023, when they filled Sofia's Maymunarnika. They performed traditional songs and their own hits, and at the end came down into the crowd and sang without a stage. The new tour deliberately plays smaller, more intimate halls, which suits music that sounds best with no distance.

Tickets on bilet.bg cost 25 to 42 euros, roughly 1,540 to 2,590 denars. Caucasian polyphony in a town with medieval walls is a combination that's hard to repeat.