Festival’s name: ETNOSUR
Country: Spain
Location: Alcalá la Real (Jaén)
Start date: 2018-07-20
End date: 2018-07-22
Comments:
Etnosur is a multicultural festival that has been celebrated for more than twenty years in Alcalá la Real (Jaén) during the month of July. It is characterized by hosting a program of activities totally free and for all ages that includes music, literature, forum, workshops, gastronomy, movies…
Festival’s name: BU Global Music Festival
Country: United States
Location: Boston
Start date: Friday, October 5, 2018
End date: Saturday, October 6, 2018
Comments:
The BU Global Music Festival is a free, annual celebration of world music, featuring more than a dozen international and local musicians.
BU Global Music Festival Goals:
• Celebrate and enhance BU‘s Global Identity
• Celebrate the music and culture of immigrant communities in the greater Boston area
• Educate our students and the general community about world music and culture
• Build community and good will between BU and the greater Boston region
• Welcome a broad cross-section of community members to BU
• Present high-quality global music and engaging performances to the region for free
Festival’s name: Jeonju Int’l Sori Festival
Country: South Korea
Location: Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do
Start date: 3/October/2018
End date: 7/October/2018
Comments: Korea’s main event for traditional music and, since 2011, world music. In 2012, 2013, and 2014, Songlines listed Jeonju Sori Festival among the World’s Best 25 International Festivals, the only Asian festival in the list.
Festival’s name: Fira Mediterrània de Manresa
Country: Spain
Location: Manresa
Start date: 04/10/2018
End date: 07/10/2018
Comments:
Fira Mediterrània de Manresa is a performing arts fair rooted in Mediterranean tradition. It has two main areas of focus: popular culture (based on elements that include the transfer of heritage, the crossover between contemporary creation and traditional regional culture, participation and the increase of the social foundations of culture) and world music and folk (traditional or contemporary music that is connected to its local region, with special emphasis on the Mediterranean).
It has been held every year since 1998 and has become a setting for exchange professionals that sell and buy productions.
Festival’s name: Lowell Folk Festival
Country: United States
Location: Lowell, Massachusetts
Start date: 27/07/2018
End date: 29/07/2018
Comments:
The Lowell Folk Festival is the largest FREE folk festival in the northeast. Downtown Lowell transforms into an all inclusive festival for three days, featuring five musical stages that showcase highly curated traditional music, representing cultures from around the world. There are sunny and shaded stages, and there will be smiling faces all around. With a Family Activities Area, Crafts Demonstrations, savory ethnic foods, and so much more, everyone enjoys it “their way”.
Festival’s name: Bayimba International Festival of the arts
Website: https://bayimbafestival.com/
Country: Uganda
Location: Lunkulu Island, Mukono
Start date: 2018-08-02
End date: 2018-08-05
Comments:
The Bayimba International Festival of the Arts has developed into a major multi-arts festival with varied and qualitative programming, presenting exciting, innovative and creative ideas. It is eagerly awaited by locals while artists and visitors from abroad pour into Uganda to take advantage of the exciting artistic experience. With a vibrant and an unparalleled feast of music, dance, theatre, film, and visual arts from renowned and upcoming artists from around the world. The festival has truly become a highlight on Uganda’s social and cultural calendar and is also gradually developing into an important (East) African destination festival.
Festival’s name: FMM Sines – Festival Músicas do Mundo
Website: http://www.fmmsines.pt
Country: Portugal
Location: Sines, Portugal
Start date: 19 July 2018
End date: 28 July 2018
About: FMM Sines – Festival Músicas do Mundo is a music festival held every July in the municipality of Sines on the Alentejo coast in Portugal. Organised by the Sines City Council, it is a cultural public service festival. Adopting “Music with a spirit of adventure” as a motto, the festival is presented in historic and urban scenarios of great beauty and authenticity, close to a coastline with protected landscape.
Festival’s name: Colours of Ostrava
Website: https://www.colours.cz/
Country: Czech Republic
Location: Ostrava
Start date: 2018-07-16
End date: 2018-07-21
About:
The Colour of Ostrava festival includes 3 events:
1. Czech music Crossroads conference + showcase concerts (running in the first 2 days) – 14 bands from 4 countries performing,
2. The main festival running in the following 4 days
3. Melting pot and Music Alarm, the discussions with musicians, artists and public figures running as the daytime supplement to the main festival
Festival’s name: World Music Festival Bratislava
Website: http://worldmusicfestival.sk/en/homepage/
Country: Slovakia
Location: Bratislava
Dates 2018: 13 – 16 Sep
About:
World Music Festival Bratislava is a multi-genre festival with focus on world music taking place around the old town heart of Slovakia’s capital Bratislava. In a region that has long been Europe’s cultural crossroads. The festival forms a meeting point between East and West. The programme consists of concerts, showcases, conference, workshops, presentations about the traditional culture of the region, children’s programme and public discussions. It features leading musicians and bands from Slovakia and beyond. It provides a window on world music’s context in the country and its relationship to Slovakia’s rich traditional musics.
Festival’s name: Cordas World Music Festival
Website: http://www.festivalcordas.com
Country: Portugal
Location: Madalena
Dates 2018: 7 – 16 Sep
About:
Founded in 2016, Cordas World Music Festival is now working to build the third season in 2018. www.festivalcordas.com
Pico island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean welcomes string-music instruments and artists from around the world in venues that range from a garden, a cave, a vulcanic crater, natural pools, dragon-tree sanctuary, centre square stage and the new contemporary auditorium in the town of Madalena.
Artists that have been at Cordas include…
International: Tcheka (Cape Verde), Lu Yanan (China), Eran Zamir (Israel), Michel William (Mozambique), Maninho (Brazil), Anjos Teixeira (Germany), Marco del Castillo (Canary Islands), Beselch Rodriguez (Canary Islands), Pieter Adriaans