Sherezade is on maternity leave but she came today with her new son and allowed me to take this funny picture of them for the newsletter. Congratulations, Shere! Shere training her two weeks old boy for the hard work of world music –> In parallel, fair season arrived, so we pay attention to some ones that we have already mentioned in previous editions and a couple more. We also start a series of mini interviews with directors of festivals, in the search of the new challenges that the festivals are facing nowadays and in the near future. We are grateful for the answers we have had so far and we’ll send all of them in this and the succeeding newsletters. I hope you’ll find it useful. And if you have any suggestion of contents for next editions, let us know. Thanks for your attention. Araceli Tzigane – info@mundimapa.com +34 676 30 28 82 Summary: upcoming fairs, mini interviews with festivals directors, new events included on #TremendAgenda. Do you like our newsletter? To sign up, click HERE. FAIRS SEASON! FIRA MEDITERRÀNIA, PAMS, WOMEX, VISA FOR MUSIC
Buyers and sellers have many occasions for business during Autumn Many professional fairs and showcases festivals have emerged in recent years. Only time will say if it’s a bubble or a sustainable development path. In the meantime, the world music community doesn´t have time for getting bored. These are just a few of the options for gathering.
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WOMEX is undoubtedly the queen of world music fairs. Little else is needed to say about this itinerary event that gathers near to 3000 professional from all over the world and this year will take place at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, that is officially our country, Spain, but is geographically Africa. In this edition Mapamundi Música presents the showcase by Gulaza. Learn more about WOMEX here.
CURRENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR FESTIVALS.
MINI INTERVIEW WITH MICHAL SCHMIDT FROM FOLK HOLIDAYS
We start this series of mini interviews with the director of Folk Holidays, festival that takes place in Náměšť nad Oslavou (Czeck Republic) at the beginning of August. Thank you, Michal!
 MM – What do you search in an artist when you program? MS – I search artist who have music as the first thing, who are specific, who are not only entertainers, who fits to my theme of our festival, who fits to our environment, who excited me by their music. MM – Which are the global objectives of your festival?
MS – The main objective is to bring eight evening special concerts blocks. The whole festival has one basic theme every year, and each concert block usually consists usually from three bands and has specific title and dramaturgy. I want to bring complete evening program as the whole, which has the own title, logic, specificity, uniqueness, discovering for visitors, delights for musicians from these concerts. I do not want repeat concerts and I invite very often bands who are in our country at the first time I pepare a special short residence projects with final concert.  MM – What are the most complicated or difficult issues to deal with in your festival? MM – Which are currently the main challenges for this kind of cultural proposals like yours? MM – In one sentence, summarize the reason/s to go to your festival. Picture: Michal Schmidt by Yvetta Stránská for http://www.world-music.cz
LATESTS POSTS AT #TREMENDAGENDA
The communication project lead by Juan Antonio Vázquez continues growing in contents. Some of the latests inserts:
** Do you have a world music festival or concert series and want to be included at #TremendAgenda? Contact #TremendAgenda here ** MEET US AT…
Fira Mediterrània and Womex, where we have showcases of artists of ours: Janusz Prusinowski Trio with Manu Sabaté and Gulaza, respectively.
WHO WE ARE AND SISTER PROJECTS Mapamundi Música is an agency of management and booking. Learn more here. Check our proposals at our website. We also support our mission through our Mundofonías radio show, probably the leader about world music in Spanish language (on 46 stations in 17 countries), the Transglobal World Music Chart with our partner Ángel Romero from WorldMusicCentral.com, the #TremendAgenda and Asociación para la Difusión de los Estilos. Feel free to request info if you wish. For further information about us, get in touch by email, telephone (+34 676 30 28 82), our website or at our Facebook. |
Newsletter #2 August 2018
 
Welcome to our August newsletter. During these days Sherezade is enjoying holidays and Araceli is having some office work between tour and tour. Wherever you are, we hope you’ll find it useful. And if you have any suggestion of contents for next editions, let us know. Thanks for your attention. Araceli Tzigane & Sherezade Álvarez – info@mundimapa.com +34 676 30 28 82 Summary: new radio show focused on Oriental music | grants for Spanish artists´ logistic expenses by AC/E | Bratislava World Music Festival | Womex Guide Rate deadline Do you like our newsletter? To sign up, click HERE. LA RUTA DE LAS ESPECIAS, NEW RADIO SHOW ON SPAIN’S NATIONAL RADIO
Juan Antonio Vázquez, from Mundofonías team, is producing this new radio show on RNE – Radio Clásica, during the Summer.  If you are an artist, producer, disseminator or just interested in music from the many orients, like Arab and North African, the Turkish, the Persian, the Central Asian, the Indian subcontinent´s, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Southeast Asian… take a listen. You can get in touch with Juan Antonio at this email.Picture: Juan Antonio Vázquez at Spain’s national radio archive
ACCIÓN CULTURAL ESPAÑOLA (AC/E) PERIOD TO REQUEST GRANTS WILL TAKE PLACE IN SEPTEMBER
By the PICE grants, AC/E supports finantially the logistic expenses to the institutions and festivals that want to have a Spanish artist in their program.
This period And remember that it can be requested for Mapamundi Música’s Spanish artists El Naán and Vigüela. Feel free to request more info. We have collaborated with some festivals to get the support with success. Picture: Mari Nieto, from Vigüela. By Pedro Mari Martín
BRATISLAVA WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL, FROM 13RD TO 16TH OF SEPTEMBER
The 3rd edition of the festival offers a showcase session of Slovak bands, a conference and a workshop of flamenco guitar.
 And, apart of the aforementioned, the festival includes concerts by artists from Slovakia, Chile, Ghana, Israel, Spain, Greece, Serbia, Hungary, Austria and Great Britain. The festival will also host the annual meeting of the EFWMF so many of the directors of the associated festivals will attend as delegates. Check the list here and let Araceli know if you go, as she will be there.Picture: cover of Bratislava World Music Festival at Facebook
GUIDE RATE AT WOMEX DEADLINE: 17TH OF AUGUST
Until next Friday you can still get discounts and, more important, be included in the printed guide.
 You can check the current prices and register at their website. After day 17th the price gets more expensive and it won´t include the presence of delegates and companies on the printed guide.Picture: cover of Womex page at Facebook
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As mentioned above, at Bratislava World Music Festival (Slovakia). After that, we’ll be very busy preparing ourselves for Fira Mediterrània and Womex, where we have showcases of artists of ours: Janusz Prusinowski Trio with Manu Sabaté and Gulaza, respectively.
Mapamundi Música is an agency of management and booking. Check our proposals at our website. We also support our mission through our Mundofonías radio show, probably the leader about world music in Spanish language (on 46 stations in 17 countries), and theTransglobal World Music Chart with our partner Ángel Romero from WorldMusicCentral.com. Feel free to request info if you wish. For further information about us, get in touch by email, telephone (+34 676 30 28 82), our website or at our Facebook. |
Newsletter #1 July 2018
| In our aim of creating bridges and disseminating useful info for the community of world and traditional music we launch this Mapamundi’s monthly newsletter. We hope you’ll find it useful and if you have any suggestion of contents for next editions, let us know. Thanks for your attention.
#TREMENDAGENDA, THE NEW GLOBAL AGENDA
#TremendAgenda is the global world music festivals and programming agenda, elaborated by Mundofonías team.
 Desde su lanzamiento a comienzos de Junio, #TremendAgenda ha presentado 47 festivales de todo el mundo. Cada entrada de la web es una edición del festival, de manera que no se trata de una base de datos de festivales, sino de una agenda calendarizada con eventos históricos y en curso, con un enfoque global.Imagen: portada de #TremendAgenda
WELCOME TO THE NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF FØRDE FESTIVAL: PER IDAR ALMÅS
Hilde Bjørkum, the director for 29 years, will continue working for the festival with special projects
 The new director is Per Idar Almås, a 37 year old man, coming from a position in the Bergen International Festival and also the director of Gloppen Music Festival, a chamber music festival in the neibouring community of Gloppen.Picture: Vigüela in Førde Festivalen 2016
WOMEX AND FIRA MEDITERRÀNIA DE MANRESA UNVEIL THEIR ARTISTIC SELECTION
The Català fair will include our project with Manu Sabaté and Janusz Prusinowski Kompania and WOMEX will have Gulaza
 The 21st edition of the Fira (October, 4th-7th) continues raising traditional expressions like the iconic castells, circus, theatre and, of course, music. This edition’s topic is Rituals. Check the program here. For its part, Womex (October, 24th-28th) will take place at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and will present more than 40 artists. Check the confirmed ones here. Mapamundi Música will be at Fira Mediterrània with our own stand and at Womex (stand Sounds from Spain). Picture: Manu Sabaté & Janusz Prusinowski Kompania
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FMM Sines (Portugal) and Folk Holidays (Czeck Republic)
Araceli Tzigane will attend FMM Sines from 19th to 22nd of July, on occasion of our concert by Monsieur Doumani. You can find her also at Folk Holidays, for the participation of Vigüela and Janusz Prusinowski Kompania with Maria Siwiec. She’ll be there from July 31st to August 2nd. Check our calendar of concerts here.
Picture: Vigüela, Maria Siwiec & Janusz Prusinowski Kompania, premiere in Warsaw, April 2018
Araceli Tzigane & Sherezade Álvarez – info@mundimapa.com +34 676 30 28 82
Mapamundi Música is an agency of management and booking. Check our proposals at our website. We also support our mission through our Mundofonías radio show, probably the leader about world music in Spanish language (on 46 stations in 17 countries), and theTransglobal World Music Chart with our partner Ángel Romero from WorldMusicCentral.com. Feel free to request info if you wish. For further information about us, get in touch by email, telephone (+34 676 30 28 82), our website or at our Facebook. |
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