Mari Boine, photo provided by organizer
Mari Boine's roots in the Ethnic native Sami "joik", together with the Christian influences have, beside of her adopting of jazz, rock and native music from all over the world, made her one of today's really unique artists.
Mari Boine was born in 1956, out of the deep of North Sami native culture and gave her a heritage which make the her the strong voice of the northern people in Scandinavia. Her childhood was spent in the small village of Gamehisnjarga, not far from the Sami cultural centre of Karasjok, Finnmark (North of Norway).
Her first musical experience came from the Laestadian movement, a strong influenced Christian movement among the Sami people. Their poetic psalms filled some gap between the traditional sami joik and the Norwegian folkmusic.
She was met with resistance from her own at first, due to the opposition she made against the traditional ways of Sami culture under Norwegian colonization, and the traditional women's roll, but now Mari Boine give the inspiration to most of her people and crushes the myths about Norwegian bending the Sami and the problems towards the Norwegian society. The history of Norwegian domination and injustice are not spoken easily about even today, and somehow it's being silenced and even denied of some Norwegians.
The understanding of both Norwegian and Sami Native Society, and it's internal and external conflicts, has made Mari Boine a great ambassador of her outspring and people. She is a strong personality and a woman with unbended will, and most of the time she has been working with her own music created the best ethnic music there is to find in Norway today. Her audiences outside Norway, in Europe and even in USA , has increased the last two years, and her work is something to give her respect for. The high number of fans and visitors to her concerts is enough evidence of that.
The first international released album was "Gula -Gula", recorded in 1989, released by Real World Records. In 1993, Boine's album Goaskinviella (Eagle Brother) was awarded the Norwegian equivalent to a Grammy. Boine's vocals were also featured on saxophonist Jan Garbarek’s albums Twelve Moons (1992) and Visible World (1995).
After a break, Boine returned in 2003 with two albums and a new label. Now recording for Minnesota's NorthSide imprint, Boine released the studio effort Eight Seasons, as well as Mari Boine - Remixed, which included reworkings of classic Boine material from notables like Bill Laswell and Jah Wobble.
7 October 2011 (Friday) / 7pm Lublin Philharmonic
The concert is a part of "The Oldest Songs of Europe. Tradition and Avant-garde/ 2011" festival.
Programme
This event is part of the Attention Culture! Cultural Programme of the 2011 Polish EU Presidency.
Organizers: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, National Audiovisual Institute
Patrons of Presidency: PKO Bank Polski, PZU S.A.
Local organizers: City Hall of Lublin, Centre for Intercultural Creative Initiatives "Crossroads", Workshops of Culture in Lublin, The Centre for Culture in Lublin