Etnika International World Music Festival

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Etnika - mednarodni glasbeni festival

Valvasorjeva 26, SI-2000 Maribor

http://www.etnika.si

info@etnika.si

Organised byZAVOD ETNIKA

Marjan Ornik, Programme Co-ordinator

marjan.ornik@gmail.com

Phone386 (0) 40 632 232

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Etnika is a young festival which embarked on its mission of bringing fresh world music to the city of Maribor in 2005. The second goal of the festival is to bring new performers who have never before performed in Slovenia. The festival is produced by Pekarna Magdalena Network and takes place annually at Gustaf Hall, Satchmo Jazz Club, Kino Gledališče, and Cantante Restaurant. The many venues have brought more interest in the festival and increased attendance. The best-attended concert was a most unusual yet very exceptional and original one: it was given by Xu Fengxia, a guzheng player and singer from China.

Programme

Up to 2009 Etnika hosted several groups, all of whom performed in Slovenia for the first time: Poum Tchack (France), Pressburger Klezmer Band (Slovakia), Arasinda (Hungary); (in 2006); Banjara - The Gypsies of Radjastan (India), Eszter Biro (Hungary) and Montevideo (Uruguay, Chile, USA, Croatia, Austria) (2007); and Karandila Gypsy Brass Orchestra (Bulgaria), Stepanida Borisova & Ramesh Shotham (Sibiria, India) and Bose/Ghosh/Mallick Trio (India). In 2009 the programme also included 3 groups from Slovenia which play the world music genre: Burkina & Guinea Project, Zdenek Bily Dixieland Band, and Cana Flamenca. In 2010 it featured 3 European premières: singers Huong Thanh from Vietnam and Zohreh Jooya from Iran, as well as the Algerian dilruba master Mahamad Hadi, a.k.a. Mad Sheer Khan.

Etnika Festival is included in the official programme of the Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012.

See also

• Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012
• Druga Godba Festival

External links

• Etnika website (in Slovenian)