Last year, international experts discussed the major trends and developments in world music. This time, they will try to answer the questions regarding the ways of making world music a part of popular culture. They will also wonder how the folk genre copes with new and traditional media. Sixteen experts from ten countries: Czech Republic, Great Britain, France, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Norway will come at the invitation of the Cross-Culture Festival and Culture.pl. Heads and co-founder of Europe's most important music festivals, journalists, managers, and promoters of world music will participate in the project.
Similarly to last year’s edition, the organisers have planned two panels. Speed meetings or short consultations with international experts, as well as workshops on how to exist on foreign markets especially designed for managers, publishers and artists are a novelty feature at this year’s festival. The workshops will be moderated by Gerald Seligman, an expert with nearly 30 years of experience in both major and independent music events and festivals. Seligman is the general director of the National Recording Preservation Program affiliated with the US Library of Congress.
Just like last year, 2014’s Sounds Like Poland will present the most interesting Polish folk projects. A Polish-Ukrainian quartet Dagadana, Mosaik, who mix traditional Polish music with oriental music, the Maliszów family, who specialise in Carpathian sounds and Chłopcy Kontra Basia (Boys vs Basia) who were nominated for this year’s Fryderyk Prize in the Discovery of the Year category will perform within the upcoming concert series. The audiences can also expect performances from Sutari, a three-piece playing traditional instruments as well as everyday objects such as grater, blender and keys, Hańba!, a mix of punk and old street music as well as Ethnic Instruments Study, whose shows resemble shamanic misteria. The admission is free, the concerts will run from 7pm until 10.30pm.
Cross-Culture Festival has been held since 2005. A total of 177 artists from 60 countries and 6 continents have participated in the project to this day. This is the largest platform for world music and promotion of multiculturalism. The event’s programme is drawn up by the festival’s artistic director Maria Pomianowska, Maciej Szajkowski and Martha Drummer.
If you want to participate in the debates, workshops or speed meetings send your application form (available at www.festival.warszawa.pl in the Sounds Like Poland Bookmark) to soundslikepoland@festival.warszawa.pl. The places are limited. All the expert tutorials will take place in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
source: press materials, edited by km, August 2014
Translated by Kasia Dolato
SOUNDS LIKE POLAND – PROGRAMME:
SEPTEMBER 25 (Thursday) at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
11 am
How to make world music a part of pop culture?
The debate will be moderated by Malcolm Haynes (Glastonbury, United Kingdom)
12.30 pm
World music in new and traditional media.
The debate will be moderated by Lopa Kothari (BBC3, UK)
3pm
Speed Meeting
25 SEPTEMBER (Thursday) Festival tent in front of the Palace of Culture and Science
7pm-10.30pm
Performances by Dagadana, Mosaik, Kapela Maliszów, Chłopcy Kontra Basia, Sutari, Hańba!, Studium Instrumentów Etnicznych.
26 SEPTEMBER (FRIDAY) The Museum of the History of Polish Jews
11 am
How to break through in the international market?
The debate will be moderated by Gerald Seligman
source: press materials, edited by km, August 2014