The second edition of the EuroMed Music Festival will take place from 26th to 28th of June in Gödör Klub. The Festival wishes to respond to current social problems, when gaps continue to exist between civilizations and cultures, when the individuals have to face with a society that becomes more and more multicultural. The invited musicians will come from twelve different countries to Budapest, in order to spend 5 days sharing their experiences in a variety of traditional and modern musical genres. They are supposed to use Arab, Jewish, African, Balkan and jazz musical elements for the creation of nine new world music products that will be first staged during the three-day festivals closely following each other in Budapest, Belgrade (Serbia) and Katowice (Poland).
This year, beside nine Hungarian musicians taking part in the event, Tunisia, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Spain, Belgium, Finland, Sweden, France, Serbia and Poland will also be represented.
The artistic production will result from a collective creation, thus supporting new European identities, cultural pluralism and enforcing mutual enrichment of contemporary creations between Europe and its Mediterranean neighbors. The aim of the festival is also to show how music can be a mediating tool between cultures, and how a point can be reached where the different cultures join, creating new, universal values.
The event was first held in 2007 in Budapest. This year, thanks to the support of the European Union Culture Programme, the festival will take place in two other countries as well.
This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the Anna Lindh Foundation.
June 4th 2009
The second edition of the EuroMed Music Festival will take place from 26th to 28th of June in Gödör Klub. The Festival wishes to respond to current social problems, when gaps continue to exist between civilizations and cultures, when the individuals have to face with a society that becomes more and more multicultural. The invited musicians will come from twelve different countries to Budapest, in order to spend 5 days sharing their experiences in a variety of traditional and modern musical genres. They are supposed to use Arab, Jewish, African, Balkan and jazz musical elements for the creation of nine new world music products that will be first staged during the three-day festivals closely following each other in Budapest, Belgrade (Serbia) and Katowice (Poland).
