This table is made by EthnoBass, but we still owe a lot to Worldmusicportal.com
and to European
Forum of Worldwide Music Festivals (EFWMF)
Dots ... behind the festival name indicates a link to more info
at this page. (Shortcut)
Other Events:
EVENTS
at BBC radio
· "BBC - Radio 3 World Music - World Music
Awards". Check
out the winners
· "BBC 2
Folk awards".BBC 2 has sett up a special feature on the Folk
music awards.
Festivals:
Celtic Connection Festival at Glasgow
Royal Concert Hall (Scotland)
A annual Festival in its ninth year, in last part of January. "With a clear
and growing interest throughout the world in Scottish music and celtic
culture in general, Glasgow's festival is recognised not only as the premiere
celtic festival in the United Kingdom but also as an important global event.
With 80,000 attendances last year alone"
Check the Glasgow
Royal Concert Hall Homepage or use this mail
if you want to join the festivals email list "for up to date information".
Etnimálaga, in Peñón del
Cuervo Beach (Málaga – Andalucía – Spain)
Info:
etnimalaga@etnimalaga.com
http://www.etnimalaga.com
Etnohelmántica – Salamanca (Spain)
Info
lafabricadeideas@wanadoo.es
Falun Folkmusik Festival (Sweden)
Falun Folkmusik Festival
started in 1986. The festival was the first major event in the Nordic countries
that presented Swedish and Nordic traditional music parallel to locally
rooted music from other countries and continents. World music and Nordic
traditional music side by side on equal footing.
Next Falun Festival: 10. - 13. July 2002
Cource program 2002:
Fiddle for Children and Youth, Fiddle for Adults - Beginners, Fiddle
for Adults - Continuation, The Voice – Physical or Mystical..., Kuja, kula,
kauka, locka, lulla, Polska - A very Swedish dance, Guitar and other stringy
instruments, Nordic Rhythms, West African Rhythms and Drums, Didgeridoo,
Oriental Dance for beginners, Folk music on recorder, Capoeira, The Children
meet Africa, Overtone Singing, Traditional fiddling, Irish Step Dancing.
Mail: kurser@falufolk.falun.se
for more info.
Førde Internasjonale Folkemusikkfestival (Norway)
The Førde Internasjonale Folkemusikkfestival (Førde Inernational
Folk music festival) in Norway was
initiated in 1990, and is arranged in Førde in the county of Sogn
og Fjordane every year during the first half of July. The purpose of the
festival is to promote knowledge of and interest in Norwegian, Nordic and
international folk music. The festival is a meeting place for performers
and others from all over the world.
Every year the festival has a main theme like i.e. gipsy music, native
people and so on. The themes gives each festival a strict profile. But
the festivals are more than theme concerts, there are workshops, concerts
for children and so on. And there are Norwegian and Scandinavian music,
some of them very local, "Indre Sunnfjord Spelemannslag" performs every
year. And in addition to the theme concerts there are other artists, some
of them world stars. Some of them less known at the world music stage,
they are just great musicians.
The theme profile is one of the things that makes this festival a little
different from the others. There is one or two other things that makes
this festival special: The two creative enthusiasts Hilde Bjørkum
and Kirsten Friis, and a very enthusiastic corps of volunteers. And of
cource, Førde, it is a small city, in the midlle of no where, with
a great atmosphere.
Link to the Førde Festival Homepages
The theme artists are: Joaquin Ruiz
Flamenco Ensemble, with Rafael Jiménez "Falo" , Carmina Cortés,
Rafael Morales and José Luis Ordoñez (Spain). Oskorri
(also Spain) Maria
Amélia Proenca (Portugal) and Realejo
(Portugal).
Other artists are The White
Cockatoo performing group (Australia), Agadir Gnawa (Morrocko), Maxwell
Street Klezmer Band (US), Loyko
(Russia), Danu (Ireland), Sokora (Western
Africa, based in Norway), Lucy
Acevedo (Black Peru), Ühot (Turkey), and off cource a lot of interesting
Norwegian and Scandinavian artists.
Go to the Festival site for more details.
The theme for the Førde Folk Music Festival 2003 is European
voices. There will be artists from 17 European countries. This is a direct
result of of the European Broadcasting Union choosing Førde Festival
as host for its 24th EBU Festival of folk & traditional music.
(The links below leads to the artists pages)
Badenya Les Freres Coulibaly
(Burkina Faso), Senge (Madagascar),
Gustavo
Gancedo Tango Septeto with singer Debora Russ and dancers Yannick Juarez
/ Kahena Saïghi og Jeusa Vasconcelos / Eric Müller (Argentina
/ France), Ensemble Kabul
(Afghanistan), Thaa Drum Orchestra
(Sri Lanka), Blazin’ Fiddles
(Scotland), Kathryn Tickell Band
(England), Shine (Scotland).
The EBU Artists are:
Majorstuen (Norway), Sans
(Denmark), Petterson & Fredriksson (Sweden), Trio
Fröjdö-Nyqvist-Särs (Finland), Die
Grenzgänger (Germany), Disguise
(Germany), Jaune Toujours (Belgium),
Aljub
& Miquel Gil (Spain),
Swoja Droga (Poland),
Raduza
(Czeck Republic), Risa
Zvejnieki (Latvia), WZ
Orkiestra (Belarus), Vasyl Nechepa
(Ukraine), Anna Sidnina (Russia),
Marusic Is Trio (Croatia), Duo Rapsozii
Botosanilor (Romania),
Norwegian artists:
Per Sæmund Bjørkum - Berg
og Vatn, Flukt, Trispann, Nordarfjells,
Vågå
Spelmannslag, Indre Sunnfjord Spelemannslag, Unni Løvlid, Jan
Beitohaugen Granli, Steinar Ofsdal, Fliflet
/ Hamre.
By Tim Øsleby
"GUCA" Brass Music Festival (Serbia)
Gipsy brass music festival.
"An assembly of trumpet players in Guca is the biggest, the most visited
cultural –artistic both in Yugoslavia and in Serbia. It takes place at
the end of august every year in Guca and about 50 orchestra which are going
to pass the qualifications and 300.000 visitors are going to participate.
This is an extraordinary manifestation, where the orchestra will be entertaining
public during three days and two nights searching for the most cheerful
visitors, winning their simpathy, hoping that they will be chosen for the
finals, which takes place at the town stadium on the last day of the festival."
More info and soundsamples at this link.
Rootsworld Free Reed Festival
A crazy thing from a crazy man ;-)
- Cliff Furnald: Radio producer, reporter, and editor of many online
projects like Rootsworld,
Rootster,
Hollow
Ear. Cliff also runs an online cd-store cdRoots (our
afilliate partner). Cliff has a very good nose for weird interesting
music from most parts of mother earth. How does he kope? Does he listen
to music 28 hours pr day? Or does he listen to one thing at his left ear,
and another at his right? I don't know, all I know is that his projects
surtainly is worth attention.
Keep up the good work, Cliff!
Anyway, the Free Reed Festival is something unique- an annual online
festival, dedicated to accordion.
Cliff Furnald describes the festival like this:
"I produce this festival each year as a way of focusing attention not
on the machinery of music, but on the artists from around the world who
use the machines. I suppose I could just as easily have chosen the hurdy-gurdy,
the vocorder or the basson, but the accordion just seems so right."
(...)
"Mostly, I hope you will be surprised, by the wide range of music the
accordion world (and therefore, the whole world) has to offer, from the
challenging improvisations on a Finnish chromatic accordion to the unexpected
harmonica music of Ireland and Africa. Don't be afraid to go into an unexpected
doorway and see what's going on in there!"
Go here!
Verden I Norden
The main idea is to gather musicians and listeners from the hole world
for a week in the Norwegian capitol Oslo. Initiated in 1993. The name of
this yearly festival means "The World in the North".
Picture Gallery from the 2001 festival.
Info:
http://www.rikskonsertene.no/
(in Norwegian)
anne.moberg@rikskonsertene.no
WOMAD
Womad: World
of Music and Art. Womad is founded by Peter Gabriel among others. It is
a Touring Festival, it is Workshops, Tours and Educational work. The purpose
is: "to promote, maintain, improve and advance education in world cultures,
whilst seeking to excite and inform audiences of the worth and potential
of a multi-cultural society."