And we reached the very last stage of our Musical Road to Womex, our section discovering and introducing you to some of the acts who will be performing in Lisbon as part of The Official Showcase Selection of Womex 2022. We set things in motion in Brazil with Bia Ferreira,...
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We are almost there! On Wednesday, Womex will finally kick off its 2022 edition, so much so our Musical Road to Womex is reaching its very last stages. But before the Worldwide Music Expo will raise the curtain on its Lisbon stage, we still have two more stop-overs to close...
Only a few ensembles sum up the idea of a new Latin sound like La Brígida Orquesta. The Chilean big band (with a new EP, Antipoda, out via Aajabu!) which started to take shape in 2017 gathering musicians from (among the others) Conchalí Big Band, Mapocho Orchestra, Portavoz and Newen Afrobeat,...
The second leg of our Road to Womex brings us to South Africa, where we meet a talented and eclectic musician born and raised in Eastern Cape, who is dedicating her life and career to preserving, showcasing and bringing forward the local folk repertoire. Singer/songwriter, storyteller, activist, creative entrepreneur and...
And after one year, we are on the Road to Womex once again… Just as it happened in 2021, we have the pleasure to make the introductions and present to you some of the acts who will be enriching the nights of the World Music Expo. Throughout the upcoming weeks,...
The countdown has officially started… in two months’ time, the 2022 edition of Womex will get underway to spread the sounds, words and images of the world-music world throughout Lisbon. After a thoroughly successful experience in Porto last year, the Worldwide Music Expo is indeed going to be back to...
Our Musical Road to Womex brought us to Porto safe and sound. Throughout the last eight weeks, we travelled the world-music world far and wide to present you some of the acts that will be part of this year’s Official Showcase Selection performing in Porto in the upcoming days. But...
We’re almost there! In just two days’ time Womex will raise the curtain on its 2021 edition bringing welcoming the world-music world to Porto. All the programmes have been defined (you can find all of them HERE) and showcases announced… So, it was time to reach the end of our...
Our Road to the 2021 edition of Womex keeps on winding through the world-music world. From Brussels and Echoes of Zoo, we now travel to Syria and the Middle East via Paris. There, we have the pleasure to get acquainted with the exceptional musicianship and social awareness of flautist and...
…and now off to Belgium with Echoes of Zoo! The Musical Road to Womex we started to follow little more than a month ago brings us to Brussels today. In the Belgian capital, we meet the quartet founded by multi-instrumentalist and composer Nathan Daems. Together with Bart Vervaeck (guitarist), Lieven...
Our Musical Road to Womex brings us to Angola, via Portugal, France and Brazil. These are all the places that shaped Lucia de Carvalho‘s sound. The music of the singer/songwriter and dancer born in Luanda and grown up between Lisbon and a small Alsatian town, fully and rhythmically reflects her life following...
We have reached the third episode of our Musical Road to Womex and from Cuba and its grooviest funkero Cimafunk, we travel all the way to Japan for something completely different. On the island of Okinawa, we meet with a mesmerizing sanshin player, singer and composer, Aragaki Mutsumi. Little more than a...
The second stage of Musical Road to Womex, our new section introducing you to some of the protagonists of the showcases enriching Womex 2021’s programme, is a feast of funky and exciting vibes courtesy of the hottest act coming from the Cuban contemporary music scene. Cimafunk, who’s ready to release...
Our Musical Road to Womex section couldn’t debut in a more appropriate way than featuring and presenting you to a one-of-a-kind ensemble passionately and reverently bringing forward their century-old music tradition and spreading it “from the edge of the Sahara desert” to the world. We are talking about the Malian...
Welcome to a new Rhythm Passport section that will keep you company till the 27th of October when WOMEX will raise the curtains on its 2021 edition. As it’s not too hard to imagine, the section is dedicated to the Expo itself. In the next 11 weeks, we will indeed...
Having mourned the absence of authorization last year due to Covid-19, the organisers of the Shrewsbury Folk Festival have been working tirelessly to revise its format for 2021. Set on the outskirts of medieval Shrewsbury at the West Mid Showground, the SFF has branded its 2021 comeback “a celebration of...
After the winter break, our Festival Files are once again fully operational and will guide you to discover some the best music festivals happening throughout the year. The first episode of 2020 is dedicated to a festival that, since 1994, is lightning up the long January nights in Glasgow, Celtic Connections....
If you think that with August the festival season also comes to an end, you’re way off the mark. In fact, since 2000, the seaside town of Whitby enjoys some sort of musical Indian summer with a three-day-long event, delighting the more refined sound appetites. Musicport Festival, which, as anticipated,...
For the second episode of our Q&A-series dedicated to world-music festivals and their protagonists, we did things in grand-style, with possibly the most gargantuan one happening in the UK; a good-and proper cultural experience. Boomtown Fair goes far and beyond the usual idea of a music festival. It is indeed...
We wanted to launch our new Q&A-series, dedicated to world-music festivals and their protagonists, with a bit of magic, with possibly the most organic and light-hearted one happening in the UK. Since 2014, on the far tip of Cornwall, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Channel, a festival of your...
