April 2019 Chart

twmc11. Kronos Quartet, Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat – Placeless – Kirkelig Kulturverksted (-)


2. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Miri – Outhere (2)
3. Le Trio Joubran – The Long March – Cooking Vinyl (1)
4. Waed Bouhassoun – Safar: Les Âmes Retrouvées – Buda Musique (-)
5. Tartit – Amankor / The Exile – Riverboat / World Music Network (8)
6. Refugees for Refugees – Amina – Muziekpublique (-)
7. Kel Assouf – Black Tenere – Glitterbeat (11)
8. Belonoga – Through the Eyes of the Earth – NarRator Records (5)
9. Leyla McCalla – The Capitalist Blues – Jazz Village / PIAS (12)
10. Dhafer Youssef – Sounds of Mirrors – Anteprima (4)

11. Urna Chahar-Tugchi featuring Kroke – Ser – Urna Chahar-Tugchi / UCT (3)
12. Oratnitza – Alter Ethno – Fusion Embassy (14)
13. Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gültekin – Karin – Muziekpublique (6)
14. Alim Qasimov and Michel Godard – Awakening – Buda Musique (-)
15. Olcay Bayır – Rüya: Dream for Anatolia – ARC Music (-)
16. Las Hermanas Caronni – Santa Plástica – Les Grands Fleuves (-)
17. Salif Keita – Un Autre Blanc – Naïve (9)
18. Xiomara Fortuna – Son Verdad – Ileakwa Producciones (33)
19. Alfredo Rodríguez & Pedrito Martínez – Duologue – Mack Avenue (13)
20. Adir Jan – Leyla – Trikont / BGST (-)

21. The Gloaming – 3 – Real World (-)
22. Rodopi Ensemble – Thraki: Thrace, the Paths of Dionysus – ARC Music (10)
23. Our Native Daughters – Songs of Our Native Daughters – Smithsonian Folkways (-)
24. Ustad Saami – God Is Not a Terrorist – Glitterbeat (37)
25. Duo Bottasso & Simon Sims Longo – Biserta e Altre Storie – Visage Music (31)
26. Janusz Prusinowski Kompania – Po Śladach / In the Footsteps – Słuchaj Uchem / Buda Musique (21)
27. Idan Raichel – And if You Will Come to Me – Cumbancha (22)
28. Sociedade Recreativa – Sociativa – Jarring Effects (24)
29. Afro Celt Sound System – Flight – ECC (27)
30. Hama Sankare – Niafunke – Clermont Music (-)

31. Yann-Fañch Kemener – Roudennoù / Traces – Buda Musique (23)
32. Madalitso Band – Wasalala – Les Disques Bongo Joe (-)
33. Umut Adan – Bahar – Riverboat / World Music Network (25)
34. Ukandanz – Yeketelale – Buda Musique (7)
35. Bokanté + Metropole Orkest – What Heat – Real World (35)
36. Kitka – Evening Star – Diaphonica (35)
37. Mimmo Epifani – Putiferio – Finisterre (15)
38. Star Band de Dakar – Psicodelia Afro-Cubana de Senegal – Ostinato (26)
39. Coşkun Karademir Quartet – Öz / Essence – Kalan (-)
40. DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson – Aimez ces Airs – Hot Casa (-)

 

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Founder members and administrators: Araceli Tzigane (ES), Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES), Ángel Romero (US),

Current Members: Madan Rao (IN), Gil Medovoy (US), Chris Heim (US), Ciro De Rosa (IT), Scott Stevens (US), Hendrick T S Foh (MY), Cliff Furnald (US), Rob Weisberg (US), Toni Polo (FR/ES), Nicolás Falcoff (AR), Masakazu Kitanaka (JP), Jordi Demésenllà (ES), Rafael Mieses (DO/US), Luís Rei (PT), Jean Trouillet (DE), Evangeline Kim (US), Willi Klopottek (LU/DE), Betto Arcos (MX/US), Thorsten Bednarz (DE), Alejandro López (ES), Jon Kertzer (US), Ken Stowar (CA), Jiří Moravčík (CZ), Mu Qian (CN), Carlos Ferreira (PT), Anna Rzhevina (RU), Gil Rouvio (IL), Bouna Ndiaye (SN), Kutay Derin Kuğay (TR), Robert Gregor (SK), Ponxo Taifa Ángeles (MX), Yatrika Shah-Rais (IR/US), Armen Manukyan (AM), Rolf Beydemüller (DE), François Bensignor (FR), Cecilia Aguirre (AR/DE), Eleni Ziliaskopoulou (GR), Marija Vitas (RS), Jaïr Tchong (NL), Enrique Blanc (MX), Tiago Lucas Garcia (BR), Zekeriya S. Şen (TR), Benjamín Muñiz (PR), Daryana Antipova (RU), Mika Kauhanen (FI), Luisa Piñeros (CO), Toni Pennacchia (US), Husniddin Ato (UZ), Chen Hanzi (CN), Seth Jordan (AU), Tony Hillier (AU), Charlie Crooijmans (NL), Nigel Wood (IE), Dore Stein (US), Roger Holdsworth (AU)

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March 2019 Chart

twmc11. Le Trio Joubran – The Long March – Cooking Vinyl (5)


2. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Miri – Outhere (1)
3. Urna Chahar-Tugchi featuring Kroke – Ser – Urna Chahar-Tugchi / UCT (4)
4. Dhafer Youssef – Sounds of Mirrors – Anteprima (3)
5. Belonoga – Through the Eyes of the Earth – NarRator Records (8)
6. Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gültekin – Karin – Muziekpublique (2)
7. Ukandanz – Yeketelale – Buda Musique (7)
8. Tartit – Amankor / The Exile – Riverboat / World Music Network (13)
9. Salif Keita – Un Autre Blanc – Naïve (6)
10. Rodopi Ensemble – Thraki: Thrace, the Paths of Dionysus – ARC Music (16)

11. Kel Assouf – Black Tenere – Glitterbeat (-)
12. Leyla McCalla – The Capitalist Blues – Jazz Village / PIAS (-)
13. Alfredo Rodríguez & Pedrito Martínez – Duologue – Mack Avenue (19)
14. Oratnitza – Alter Ethno – Fusion Embassy (20)
15. Kitka – Evening Star – Diaphonica (25)
16. Debashish Bhattacharya, Hubert Zemler & Wojtek Traczyk – Joy!Guru – Unzipped Fly (11)
17. Kelly Thoma – Ama Kopasoun oi Kairoi (As the Winds Die Down) – Kelly Thoma (17)
18. Moonlight Benjamin – Siltane – Ma Case (9)
19. Ali Hassan Kuban – From Nubia to Cairo – Piranha (14)
20. Shooglenifty & Dhun Dhora – Written in Water – Shoogle (20)

21. Janusz Prusinowski Kompania – Po Śladach / In the Footsteps – Słuchaj Uchem / Buda Musique (17)
22. Idan Raichel – And if You Will Come to Me – Cumbancha (29)
23. Yann-Fañch Kemener – Roudennoù / Traces – Buda Musique (-)
24. Sociedade Recreativa – Sociativa – Jarring Effects (-)
25. Umut Adan – Bahar – Riverboat / World Music Network (-)
26. Mimmo Epifani – Putiferio – Finisterre (40)
27. Afro Celt Sound System – Flight – ECC (12)
28. Manou Gallo – Afro Groove Queen – Contre-Jour (22)
29. Gaye Su Akyol – İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir – Glitterbeat (10)
30. Rocky Dawuni – Beats of Zion – Aquarian (-)

31. Duo Bottasso & Simon Sims Longo – Biserta e Altre Storie – Visage Music (-)
32. Lucilla Galeazzi, Didier Laloy, Ialma, Carlo Rizzo, Maarten Decombel – Alegria e Libertà – Homerecords.be (-)
33. Xiomara Fortuna – Son Verdad – Ileakwa Producciones (-)
34. Magos – Forgatós – Fonó ()
35. Bokanté + Metropole Orkest – What Heat – Real World (34)
36. Tristan Driessens & Robbe Kieckens – Blue Silence – Homerecords.be (-)
37. Ustad Saami – God Is Not a Terrorist – Glitterbeat Records (-)
38. Damily – Valimbilo – Les Disques Bongo Joe (21)
39. SANS – Kulku – Cloud Valley (24)
40. Tautumeitas – Tautumeitas – CPL-Music (28)

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Founder members and administrators: Ángel Romero (US), Araceli Tzigane (ES), Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES)

Current Members: Roger Holdsworth (AU), Madan Rao (IN), Gil Medovoy (US), Chris Heim (US), Ciro De Rosa (IT), Scott Stevens (US), Hendrick T S Foh (MY), Cliff Furnald (US), Rob Weisberg (US), Toni Polo (FR/ES), Nicolás Falcoff (AR), Masakazu Kitanaka (JP), Jordi Demésenllà (ES), Rafael Mieses (DO/US), Luís Rei (PT), Jean Trouillet (DE), Evangeline Kim (US), Willi Klopottek (LU/DE), Betto Arcos (MX/US), Thorsten Bednarz (DE), Alejandro López (ES), Jon Kertzer (US), Ken Stowar (CA), Jiří Moravčík (CZ), Mu Qian (CN), Carlos Ferreira (PT), Anna Rzhevina (RU), Gil Rouvio (IL), Bouna Ndiaye (SN), Kutay Derin Kuğay (TR), Robert Gregor (SK), Ponxo Taifa Ángeles (MX), Yatrika Shah-Rais (IR/US), Armen Manukyan (AM), Rolf Beydemüller (DE), François Bensignor (FR), Cecilia Aguirre (AR/DE), Eleni Ziliaskopoulou (GR), Marija Vitas (RS), Jaïr Tchong (NL), Enrique Blanc (MX), Tiago Lucas Garcia (BR), Zekeriya S. Şen (TR), Benjamín Muñiz (PR), Daryana Antipova (RU), Mika Kauhanen (FI), Luisa Piñeros (CO), Toni Pennacchia (US), Husniddin Ato (UZ), Chen Hanzi (CN), Seth Jordan (AU), Tony Hillier (AU), Charlie Crooijmans (NL), Nigel Wood (IE), Dore Stein (US)

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February 2019 Chart

twmc11. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Miri – Outhere
 (-↑)


2. Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gültekin – Karin – Muziekpublique (1↓)
3. Dhafer Youssef – Sounds of Mirrors – Anteprima (4↑)
4. Urna Chahar-Tugchi featuring Kroke – Ser – Urna Chahar-Tugchi / UCT (7↑)
5. Le Trio Joubran – The Long March – Cooking Vinyl (37↑)
6. Salif Keita – Un Autre Blanc – Naïve (17↑)
7. Ukandanz – Yeketelale – Buda Musique (8↑)
8. Belonoga – Through the Eyes of the Earth – NarRator Records (-↑)
9. Moonlight Benjamin – Siltane – Ma Case (6↓)
10. Gaye Su Akyol – İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir – Glitterbeat (2↓)

11. Debashish Bhattacharya, Hubert Zemler & Wojtek Traczyk – Joy!Guru – Unzipped Fly (30↑)
12. Afro Celt Sound System – Flight – ECC (3↓)
13. Tartit – Amankor / The Exile – Riverboat / World Music Network  (-↑)
14. Ali Hassan Kuban – From Nubia to Cairo – Piranha
 (28↑)
15. Shooglenifty & Dhun Dhora – Written in Water – Shoogle
 (20↑)
16. Rodopi Ensemble – Thraki: Thrace, the Paths of Dionysus – ARC Music
 (13↓)
17. Janusz Prusinowski Kompania – Po Śladach / In the Footsteps – Słuchaj Uchem / Buda Musique (-↑)
18. Kelly Thoma – Ama Kopasoun oi Kairoi (As the Winds Die Down) – Kelly Thoma (-↑)
19. Alfredo Rodríguez & Pedrito Martínez – Duologue – Mack Avenue (-↑)
20. Oratnitza – Alter Ethno – Fusion Embassy (16↓)

21. Damily – Valimbilo – Les Disques Bongo Joe
 (12↓)
22. Manou Gallo – Afro Groove Queen – Contre-Jour (22=)
23. Moulay Ahmed El Hassani – Atlas Electric – Hive Mind (23=)
24. SANS – Kulku – Cloud Valley (5↓)
25. Kitka – Evening Star – Diaphonica (-↑)
26. V.A. – Nostalgique Porto Rico: Plenas, guarachas, boléros et chansons jíbaras, 1940–1960 – Buda Musique (15↓)
27. Abdesselam Damoussi and Nour Eddine – Jedba: Spiritual Music from Morocco – ARC Music (35↑)
28. Tautumeitas – Tautumeitas – CPL-Music (27↓)
29. Idan Raichel – And if You Will Come to Me – Cumbancha (-↑)
30. V.A. – Nostalgique Kongo: Rumbas Lingala, Swahili, Kikongo & Douala 1950-1960 – Buda Musique (-↑)

31. Vigüela – A Tiempo Real – ARC Music (9↓)
32. Astrakan Project – Inês – Astrakan Project (-↑)
33. Lemma – Lemma – Buda Musique (18↓)
34. Bokanté + Metropole Orkest – What Heat – Real World (11↓)
35. At Adau – Oba – At Adau (-↑)
36. Danças Ocultas – Dentro desse Mar – Danças Ocultas (14↓)
37. BandAdriatica – Odissea – Finisterre (32↓)
38. Subhasis Bhattacharya – Tablananda – Riverboat / World Music Network (-↑)
39. Amira Kheir – Mystic Dance – Sterns Musi (19↓)
40. Mimmo Epifani – Putiferio – Finisterre (-↑)

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Founder members and administrators: Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES), Ángel Romero (US), Araceli Tzigane (ES)

Current Members: Dore Stein (US), Roger Holdsworth (AU), Madan Rao (IN), Gil Medovoy (US), Chris Heim (US), Ciro De Rosa (IT), Scott Stevens (US), Hendrick T S Foh (MY), Cliff Furnald (US), Rob Weisberg (US), Toni Polo (FR/ES), Nicolás Falcoff (AR), Masakazu Kitanaka (JP), Jordi Demésenllà (ES), Rafael Mieses (DO/US), Luís Rei (PT), Jean Trouillet (DE), Evangeline Kim (US), Willi Klopottek (LU/DE), Betto Arcos (MX/US), Thorsten Bednarz (DE), Alejandro López (ES), Jon Kertzer (US), Ken Stowar (CA), Jiří Moravčík (CZ), Mu Qian (CN), Carlos Ferreira (PT), Anna Rzhevina (RU), Gil Rouvio (IL), Bouna Ndiaye (SN), Kutay Derin Kuğay (TR), Robert Gregor (SK), Ponxo Taifa Ángeles (MX), Yatrika Shah-Rais (IR/US), Armen Manukyan (AM), Rolf Beydemüller (DE), François Bensignor (FR), Cecilia Aguirre (AR/DE), Eleni Ziliaskopoulou (GR), Marija Vitas (RS), Jaïr Tchong (NL), Enrique Blanc (MX), Tiago Lucas Garcia (BR), Zekeriya S. Şen (TR), Benjamín Muñiz (PR), Daryana Antipova (RU), Mika Kauhanen (FI), Luisa Piñeros (CO), Toni Pennacchia (US), Husniddin Ato (UZ), Chen Hanzi (CN), Seth Jordan (AU), Tony Hillier (AU), Charlie Crooijmans (NL), Nigel Wood (IE)

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TWMC Festival Awards: 2018 results

TWMC Festival Awards: 1st edition results

Best Festival Award: 1st. (in a tie):

WOMADelaide & Jeonju Int’l Sori Festival

•    Best Newcomer Festival Award:

•    Best Small/Medium Festival Award: 

•    Best Large Festival Award: 

•    Global top 10:

1.    (In a tie): Jeonju Int’l Sori Festival & WOMADelaide
3.    World Music Festival Bratislava
4.    Fira Mediterrània de Manresa
5.    Ethnoport Poznan
6.    Urkult
7.    Cordas World Music Festival
8.    Rainforest World Music Festival
9.    Førdefestivalen
10.  Lowell Folk Festival

TWMC received a total of 24 applications, of which 20 were evaluated. We were unable to find a reviewer for 4 of the festivals. We have identified one of our aspects to improve for the second edition and we’ll do our best to evaluate all the applicants in the second edition, for which the application is already open in our website.

For the first edition, the assessment was made mainly by our own panelists. 2 independent evaluators collaborated specifically on this role. In total, 15 evaluators have participated in this first edition.

The results show the high level of many of the applicants in the criteria and the distance between them is really small. In order to recognise the superb quality of many of the applicants, we’ve decide to publish the top 3 in the different categories, as well as the global top 10.

The Transglobal World Music Chart Festival Awards were launched as part of our goal to increase the appreciation of the music from the cultures of the world, as a tool for the development of people in many areas of life, as well as for joy and pleasure. Find here the procedure, criteria and application form to start the procedure.

Aside from highlighting the value of the winners in the four categories, congratulating the two festivals tied in the 1st position for their excellence, we want to praise several festivals beyond the concerts program: Urkult, as a superb inspiring example in many of the criteria (Festival-goer experience, Logistics, Environmental responsibility and Social responsibility); Ethnoport Poznan’s program beyond the concerts, with “Listen to the world”, workshops, cinema, activities for children, active support for activist humanitarian organisations… merit the attention by itself; World Music Festival Bratislava that is carefully shaping the image of the music landscape of their country for the rest of the world; Cordas World Music Festival, an authentic challenge by reason of its location, that provides thrilling experiences added to the music relish; Fira Mediterrània de Manresa, boosting the local scene as well as providing unique experiences for the public; Rainforest World Music Festival’s huge vision for gathering the strengths to create such an immersive event; Førdefestivalen’s understanding of diversity in all of its meanings; and Lowell Folk’s explorer approach and highlighting traditions from across the US and around the world trusting in many unknown artists.

Thank you all, teams of the applicant festivals, and thanks to the evaluators. Application for the 2nd edition is open.

Categories:
• Best Festival
• Best Small/Medium Festival Award
• Best Large Festival Award
• Best Newcomer Festival Award
Criteria:
• Profound diversity
• Opportunities for lesser known artists
• Communication
• Festivalgoer experience
• Logistic
• Environmental responsibility
• Social responsibility

January 2019 Chart

twmc11. Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gültekin – Karin – Muziekpublique (29↑)


2. Gaye Su Akyol – İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir – Glitterbeat (3↑)
3. Afro Celt Sound System – Flight – ECC (1↓)
4. Dhafer Youssef – Sounds of Mirrors – Anteprima (-↑)
5. SANS – Kulku – Cloud Valley (2↓)
6. Moonlight Benjamin – Siltane – Ma Case (10↑)
7. Urna Chahar-Tugchi featuring Kroke – Ser – Urna Chahar-Tugchi / UCT (-↑)
8. Ukandanz – Yeketelale – Buda Musique (-↑)
9. Vigüela – A Tiempo Real – ARC Music (6↓)
10. Bixiga 70 – Quebra-Cabeça – Glitterbeat (4↓)

11. Bokanté + Metropole Orkest – What Heat – Real World (8↓)
12. Damily – Valimbilo – Les Disques Bongo Joe (5↓)
13. Rodopi Ensemble – Thraki: Thrace, the Paths of Dionysus – ARC Music (-↑)
14. Danças Ocultas – Dentro desse Mar – Danças Ocultas (11↓)
15. V.A. – Nostalgique Porto Rico: Plenas, guarachas, boléros et chansons jíbaras, 1940-1960 – Buda Musique (-↑)
16. Oratnitza – Alter Ethno – Fusion Embassy (-↑)
17. Salif Keita – Un Autre Blanc – Naïve (-↑)
18. Lemma – Lemma – Buda Musique (12↓)
19. Amira Kheir – Mystic Dance – Sterns Music (21↑)
20. Shooglenifty & Dhun Dhora – Written in Water – Shoogle (-↑)

21. Dawda Jobarteh – I Met Her by the River – Sterns Music (16↓)
22. Manou Gallo – Afro Groove Queen – Contre-Jour (37↑)
23. Moulay Ahmed El Hassani – Atlas Electric – Hive Mind (-↑)
24. Domna Samiou – Music from Greece – Caprice (27↑)
25. Small Island Big Song – Small Island Big Song – Small Island Big Song (15↓)
26. Doctor Nativo – Guatemaya – Stonetree (7↓)
27. Tautumeitas – Tautumeitas – CPL-Music (17↓)
28. Ali Hassan Kuban – From Nubia to Cairo – Piranha (-↑)
29. Minyeshu – Daa Dee – ARC Music (13↓)
30. Debashish Bhattacharya, Hubert Zemler & Wojtek Traczyk – Joy!Guru – Unzipped Fly (-↑)

31. Sofiane Saidi & Mazalda – El Ndjoum – Airfono (14↓)
32. BandAdriatica – Odissea – Finisterre (30↓)
33. Takula – Takula – XA Music (24↓)
34. Dur-Dur Band – Dur-Dur of Somalia: Volume 1, Volume 2 & Previously Unreleased Tracks – Analog Africa (9↓)
35. Abdesselam Damoussi and Nour Eddine – Jedba: Spiritual Music from Morocco – ARC Music (-↑)
36. Dobranotch – 20 Years – CPL-Music (31↓)
37. Le Trio Joubran – The Long March – Cooking Vinyl (-↑)
38. Delgres – Mo Jodi – Jazz Village (28↓)
39. Winston Mcanuff & Fixi – Big Brothers – Chapter Two / Wagram (22↓)
40. Catarina dos Santos – Rádio Kriola – ARC Music (24↓)

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Founder members and administrators: Araceli Tzigane (ES), Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES), Ángel Romero (US).

Current Members: Charlie Crooijmans (NL), Nigel Wood (IE), Dore Stein (US), Roger Holdsworth (AU), Madan Rao (IN), Gil Medovoy (US), Chris Heim (US), Ciro De Rosa (IT), Scott Stevens (US), Hendrick T S Foh (MY), Cliff Furnald (US), Rob Weisberg (US), Toni Polo (FR/ES), Nicolás Falcoff (AR), Masakazu Kitanaka (JP), Jordi Demésenllà (ES), Rafael Mieses (DO/US), Luís Rei (PT), Jean Trouillet (DE), Evangeline Kim (US), Willi Klopottek (LU/DE), Betto Arcos (MX/US), Thorsten Bednarz (DE), Alejandro López (ES), Jon Kertzer (US), Ken Stowar (CA), Jiří Moravčík (CZ), Mu Qian (CN), Carlos Ferreira (PT), Anna Rzhevina (RU), Gil Rouvio (IL), Bouna Ndiaye (SN), Kutay Derin Kuğay (TR), Robert Gregor (SK), Ponxo Taifa Ángeles (MX), Yatrika Shah-Rais (IR/US), Armen Manukyan (AM), Rolf Beydemüller (DE), François Bensignor (FR), Cecilia Aguirre (AR/DE), Eleni Ziliaskopoulou (GR), Marija Vitas (RS), Jaïr Tchong (NL), Enrique Blanc (MX), Tiago Lucas Garcia (BR), Zekeriya S. Şen (TR), Benjamín Muñiz (PR), Daryana Antipova (RU), Mika Kauhanen (FI), Luisa Piñeros (CO), Toni Pennacchia (US), Husniddin Ato (UZ), Chen Hanzi (CN), Seth Jordan (AU), Tony Hillier (AU).

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Urkult

Festival’s name: Urkult

Country: Sweden

Location: Näsåker

Start date: 1995-08-03

End date: 2017-08-05

Comments:
The first weekend in August, the fire will be lit next to Nämforsen when the folk and world music festival Urkult will be launched annually since 1995. A festival with endless love where the whole family can enjoy themselves.

The Urkult Festival is beautifully located next to Nämforsen in Näsåker, Sollefteå municipality. Here visitors come to enjoy music, dance, joy and love in addition to the landscape.

Etnosur


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…

BU Global Music Festival

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

Jeonju Int’l Sori Festival

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.

Fira Mediterrània de Manresa

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.