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	POSTED BY: Cremm Network --- April 1st 2010
	Following two successful edition of the EuroMed Music Festival – in 2007 in Budapest (Hungary) and in 2009 in Budapest, Belgrade (Serbia) and Katowice (Poland) – CREMM will organize the three-day festivals closely following each other in the three mentioned cities from 3rd to 13th of June, 2010. The preceding five-day workshop will take place in Budapest. For the concerts multi-national teams will be formed, with Read more »

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EUROMED MUSIC 2010

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Following two successful events in 2007 and 2009 the third edition of the EuroMed Music Festival will take place - with the support of the European Union Culture Programme 2007-2013 - from the 3rd to the 13th of June 2010 in three cities in East and Central Europe: Budapest (Hungary), Belgrade (Serbia) and Katowice (Poland). This year the program was selected to become part of the UNESCO International Year of Rapprochement of Cultures 2010 program series.

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 musicians – whose origins roots back to twelve different countries and cultures – will spend 5 days in Budapest sharing their experiences in a variety of traditional and modern musical genres. They are supposed to use Arab, Jewish, African, Balkan and jazz music 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 the three cities. In Budapest the centrally located popular place, the Gödör Klub’s open air terrace will give the space for the debut performances.

This year, beside nine Hungarian musicians taking part in the event, Tunisia, Egypt, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Spain, Belgium, Finland, Portugal, Serbia and Poland will also be represented.

What can be the fruit of the meeting of professional musicians coming from different corners of the globe and how they can manage to build bridges through music and reach the audience attention? Forty-five venturesome artists with a vast international experience will look for the answer during the event and will do their best to open their ears and mind to understand each other and create a unique sound of fusion of traditional and modern music elements.

The organizers who attempt the third time to create nine collaborations gave the opportunity for young talented musicians and artists who already past rich years in the professional scene and reached high reputation in smaller or wider scale.

The audience will be the first to listen to the meeting of – just to name a few - the African-bluesy unique voice of the Belgian Minata Traoré with the Tunisian young oriental violin player Youssef Haj, the meeting of the world wide famous Portuguese Rão Kyao and the Turkish Oud player, Mehmet Polat who might find bridges between Far-East, Turkish and Fado musical heritage, or the creation between the virtuoso Israeli Oud player Sameer Makhul and well-known Serbian bass player Vasilic Nenad and Hungarian percussionist Kornél Horváth. You can also listen to the songs of modern flamenco singer Paloma Povedano accompanied by Tunisian Quanun player Daly Triki, or the promising young talent pianist Omri Mor, the Middle Eastern percussionists Yinon Muallem and Ayman Mabrouk, the Belgian saxophonist Manuel Hermia, the Serbian vocalist Bojana Nikolic, the Hungarian multi-instrumentalist Béla Ágoston or the Egyptian Mohammed Antar who plays various types of Ney. The endless list can be continued with full of great artists of the surrounding area.

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 for the initiative of the Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism and with the support of the Anna Lindh Foundation.

Organiser:
Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism
Co-organizers:
Multikultivator servis za razvoj kulture i umetnosti (Belgrade, Serbia)
Ars Cameralis Silesiae Superioris (Katowice, Poland)

Dates:
Budapest - June 8-10, 2010
Belgrade – June 9-11, 2010
Katowice – June 11-13, 2010

COMANDO MACONDO: AN EXOTIC DISH WITH APPETISING INGREDIENTS

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This is an atypical musical proposal that combines different genres of Brazilian music with Latin sounds, (pop and electronic) thereby COMANDO MACONDO claiming the Latin American imagination.Their music can be delicate and intimate, while being pulsating and dynamic, with the warm and sensual voice of Spanish Markos Bayón, and sweet and evocative singing of the Brazilian Glaucia Mendes.In their concerts, the music is accompanied by visuals, performances and texts by the poet Rodolfo Franco also Brazilian.
Markos, Glaucia and Rodolfo, launched the group in 2002, with the intention of giving a broader sense of friendship to their union. Drawing on the creativity and technical potential of each of them, thus are forging a project where the sound was merged with the visual. Their carefully done lyrics are often embedded with experimental poetry.Diego Antúnez, Nono Blázquez and Juni, joined a little later. Musicians highly experienced in various formations.
COMANDO MACONDO is a project “transibérico”, against border and bilingual, because their lyrics combine Spanish and Portuguese. Its members are almost all Spanish from Extremadura and Brazilian residents in both countries, Spain and Portugal. An exotic dish with appetising ingredients…

THE DERVISHES OF CAIRO: A GIFT OF A NILE

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The group “the Dervishes of Cairo” was born in the year 2001, with the purpose of safeguarding and to diffusing the Egyptian traditional and popular music and, especially, the sufie dances. Their force and their prodigious concentration capacity in the dance, as well as the music's brilliant interpretation and the trance rhythms that at great speed produce vertigo and happiness in the public have converted them, in little time, in one of the groups of more projection inside and out of their country.
The “Derviches of Cairo” present to us a dynamic show, colouring of an impressive master with marked difference to the sufie Turkish dances. The team participates in various festivals and events, national and international, the intercultural festivals of the community of Madrid 2005 the first edition of folkloric festival of EL Cairo 2006 and won golden pyramid prize. They participated in the final ceremony of the Olympic games in Asia in Qatar 2006, and ultimately of Hurgada in the Red Sea, in January 2007.
Today they act daily in the stages of Egypt presenting their art to the Egyptians and tourists who visit there from the four corners of the world.

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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.

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