Etnika International World Music Festival

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Etnika - mednarodni glasbeni festival

ZULK - Društvo ustvarjalnih ljudi na podrocju kulture, Valvasorjeva 26, SI-2000 Maribor

http://www.etnika.si

info@etnika.si

Phone386 (0) 2 252 1257

Organised byZULK - Društvo ustvarjalnih ljudi na podrocju kulture

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, new names who have never before performed in Slovenia. The festival is produced by Pekarna Magdalena Network and takes place annually at Gustaf Hall, Pekarna,(Satchmo Jazz Club, Maribor, Kino Gledališče or Cantante Restaurant. The many venues 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, guzheng player and a singer from China.

Programme

Up to 2009 Etnika hosted several grops and all of them 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 program included also three groups from Slovenia playing the world music genre: Burkina & Guinea Project, Zdenek Bily Dixieland Band and Cana Flamenca.

External links

• Etnika website (in Slovenian)