I<\/span>\u00a0am Araceli Tzigane. Welcome to\u00a0Mapamundi M\u00fasica<\/a>‘s October’s newsletter.<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n![](\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/993c677d53044839b1b39b2dc\/images\/e58b12e4-acd2-4244-9d3c-ae0ff666ce79.jpeg\")
I write you\u00a0from the office now, after returning from Jeonju Int’l Sori Festival where I was with\u00a0Janusz Prusinowski Kompania<\/a>\u00a0and Manu Sabat\u00e9<\/strong> and the Fira Mediterr\u00e0nia de Manresa, where we premiered the collaboration<\/a>\u00a0between\u00a0Vig\u00fcela\u00a0<\/strong>and the Valencian\u00a0Josep Aparicio “Apa” and Eduard Navarro<\/strong>. Here below I am with my right hand, Sherezade, at our stand at Fira.<\/p>\nBut I am already packing the woolen caps and the scarfs to head to Tampere. It’s WOMEX time<\/strong>! I will be pleased to meet again so many old and new friends from the world music community.\u00a0Find me\u00a0at Sounds from Spain<\/strong>.<\/p>\nFor the meantime, enjoy\u00a0these appealing contents: a mini-interview, with\u00a0Bojan Djordjevic<\/strong>, from\u00a0festival Todo Mundo\u00a0<\/strong>(Belgrade),\u00a0a deeper plunge in the\u00a0European Folk Network\u00a0<\/strong>with\u00a0Nod Knowles\u00a0<\/strong>and the usual sections of the newsletter.<\/p>\nIf you have any suggestion of contents for the next editions, let us know. Thanks for your attention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nAraceli Tzigane – info@mundimapa.com +34 676\u00a030 28 82\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\n<\/div>\nSummary<\/strong>:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\u00b7 Mini interview with festival manager: Bojan Djordjevic from\u00a0<\/span>Todo Mundo\u00a0<\/span><\/span>(Belgrade, Serbia).<\/span><\/span>
\n\u00b7 Nod Knowles, administrator of the\u00a0<\/span>European Folk Network,\u00a0<\/span>explains some details in depth.
\n\u00b7 Find me at…<\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n\n
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\n<\/div>\n\nCURRENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR FESTIVALS\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nIf you haven\u00b4t read them, you can find the previous interviews clicking on the names:\u00a0Michal Schmidt<\/a>\u00a0(Folk Holidays, CZ) –\u00a0Jun-Lin Yeoh<\/a>\u00a0(Rainforest WMF, MY) –\u00a0Luis Lles<\/a>\u00a0(Pirineos Sur, ES) –\u00a0Amitava Bhattacharya<\/a>\u00a0(Sur Jahan, IN) –\u00a0Nicolas Ribalet<\/a>\u00a0(Sukiyaki Meets the World, JP) –\u00a0Sergio Zaera<\/a>\u00a0(Poborina Folk, ES) –\u00a0Per Idar Alm\u00e5s<\/a>\u00a0(F\u00f8rdefestivalen, NO) –\u00a0Bo\u017cena Szota<\/a>\u00a0(EthnoPort, PL) –\u00a0Ken Day<\/a>\u00a0(Urkult, SE) –\u00a0Mads Olesen<\/a>\u00a0(5 Continents, CH) –\u00a0Karolina Waszczuk & Bartek Drozd<\/a>\u00a0(Jagiellonian Fair, PL) –\u00a0Alkis Zopoglou<\/a>\u00a0(Mediterranean Music Festival, GR\/CH) –\u00a0Tom Frouge<\/a>\u00a0(Globalquerque, US) –\u00a0Braulio P\u00e9rez<\/a>\u00a0(M\u00fasica en el Parque, ES)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/div>\nMINI INTERVIEW WITH BOJAN DJORDJEVIC\u00a0FROM
\nFESTIVAL TODO MUNDO<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n![](\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/993c677d53044839b1b39b2dc\/images\/7dda01b1-dbea-4e51-8a62-211b5f36f1f5.jpg\")
<\/strong><\/span>Bojan Djordjevic, together with Oliver Djordjevic, Marija Vitas and Svetlana Spajic are the board of the World Music Association Serbia, whose work of dissemination is huge and of high quality. Check\u00a0their website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\nBojan is also journalist of Radio Belgrade 3, panelist of the World Music Charts Europe and the artistic director of the Festival Todo Mundo, that takes place in Belgrade at the end of September and beginning of October.<\/strong><\/div>\n <\/p>\n
I must confess that I match greatly with Bojan’s taste. This year he booked the apple of my eyes, Vig\u00fcela, and the last year, Monsieur Doumani. But, apart of this, in the last edition they have had the great Hungarian band Babra, the Armenian-Turkish\u00a0duo of Vardan Hovanissian and Emre Gultekin, the band of Sephardic music Shira U’Tfila and others. Check\u00a0the\u00a0website<\/a> of the festival.I am pleased and thanksful for the opportunity of spreading the insights of this man that is a benchmark of the world music community.<\/strong><\/div>\n <\/p>\n
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<\/strong><\/p>\nMM – What do you search in an artist when you create the programme?\u00a0<\/strong>BD:\u00a0<\/strong>The easiest answer would be: high quality, but this is what we all (hopefully) are searching for.
\nMost of the festival program is our personal “taste”, but we cannot bring todo mundo to Belgrade\u00a0at once. What I like is that artists are standing strong with the music they play, that one feels\u00a0dedication. Mostly we do not go for highly commercial groups, as we find that already on many spots.
\nEven in the new world with all the media, there are things that has to be discovered and are worthwhile to be discovered.
\nOn the other hand it is nice to know that the artists are with their feet on the ground and understanding the reality in this part of Europe.<\/div>\n <\/p>\n
MM – Which are the global objectives of your festival?<\/strong><\/p>\nBD:\u00a0<\/strong>I think that there is great music played in every corner of the world, we just have to be curious and discover it.
\nThe festival name shows that as well – therefore music from many countries should be presented.
\nOf course we always wish to have focus on some region, country, instrument or style, and also to present few local artists,\u00a0but apart from that we want to have not more than one group from each country. And, not to forget, sometimes\u00a0is important to bring artists, who, beside the high quality have also social impact – like Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gultekin\u00a0this year, or to bring here artists from the countries that have not been presented here before, – I am sure less than 1% of\u00a0people knows anything about music from Cyprus, so presenting high quality act like Monsieur Doumani was very important.<\/p>\n\nM<\/strong>![](\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/993c677d53044839b1b39b2dc\/images\/93975725-5c5f-4373-91d2-210b6ad1a816.jpg\")
M – What are the most complicated or difficult issues to deal with in your festival?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nBD:\u00a0<\/strong>Living in Serbia means you always have to fight with financial issues. Culture and music has been supported, but in the way, that every year one have to fight from the start and the results of supporting decisions are known\u00a0late April and that is why we had to move the festival for the second half of the year.
\nThe other issue is how to deliver\u00a0our message to more people when the media are mostly going for commercial music. Few years ago media situation was different.\u00a0There were more options to present this music on radio and TV programs and in the magazines, now most of them are much more\u00a0into the politics, reality and sports. So, we have to find new ways to reach the people, as social media networks are not enough.
\nCombination of new and old approach seems like the solution at this moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMM – Which are currently the main challenges for this kind of cultural proposals like yours?<\/strong><\/div>\n\nBD:\u00a0<\/strong>Doing festival like this is great pleasure. On the other hand, as I said, there are so many great bands that deserve to be presented here.\u00a0But, we cannot have 20 concerts at the festival. Even 10 is bit too much. So, we have to keep our desires under the control \ud83d\ude42
\nAnd, when we do not have as many concerts as we would love to, we have to be careful about presentation of the local world music scene.
\nThere is lots of great music coming from Serbia nowadays, some new and young artists coming, but also we have to present\u00a0some of the great and well known names.<\/p>\nMM – In one sentence, summarise the reason\/s to go to your festival.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nBD:\u00a0<\/strong>Festival is done with great love and enthusiasm and musicians felt that and are willin’ to stay here longer.\u00a0The other reason is contact with the audience – usually after the show the contact is so friendly that audience\u00a0and artists are going together for a glass of wine or beer and stay into the discussion almost till the morning.
\nThat means the atmosphere is great and you feel it from the start. Beside that we have two concerts per evening,\u00a0so anyone has time to search around Belgrade and discover some secret or well known places in the friendly city.
\nOn top of all that you can hear many great concerts at the festival where all artists are treated equally – we\u00a0do not have support group nor headliners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nPictures’ credits<\/strong>:<\/div>\n\n- Bojan at the last edition of Festival Todo Mundo, courtesy of Marija Vitas.<\/li>\n
- Cover picture of Todo Mundo at Facebook.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n\nEUROPEAN FOLK NETWORK IS BORN<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\nIn the\u00a0previous issue<\/a>\u00a0of this newsletter we announced the birth of the EFN, linked its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0and noted the first meeting, planned for 28 & 29 November in Brussels. Mapamundi M\u00fasica is founder member and I want to encourage the community to join too.<\/strong><\/p>\nIn this occasion we have had the chance\u00a0to ask Nod Knowles, the administrator of the network, some questions to get in more detail into some points. If you haven\u00b4t checked the website, I recommend you to do it before reading the interview. It is\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/993c677d53044839b1b39b2dc\/images\/fca42a9d-bf3a-4651-88bf-55b99f1aa36d.jpg\")
Nod Knowles, former President of Europe Jazz Network, has had an international career including as Head of Music at Scottish Arts Council, CEO of Bath Festivals, one of the founding organisers of the European Folk Network (EFN) – and also of the UK\/Ireland Jazz Promotion Network (JPN) and, currently, initiator and manager of an artistic exchange programme with the Netherlands.
\nHe has held a number of advisory roles (e.g. with British Council, Arts Council Northern Ireland and Arts Council Wales) and as an independent consultant for over 40 years he has worked with a wide range of artists and organisations in research, review, policy, funding, education, project management and artistic direction.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Mapamundi M\u00fasica:\u00a0The EFN has been made public few weeks ago but the initial idea is much older, isn\u00b4t it? What is the background of this initiative?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nNod Knowles:<\/strong>\u00a0The genesis of the network originated after a research project – commissioned by the Burnsong organisation in Scotland – reported on the potential for establishing a Scottish-European base for the American folk music organisation Folk Alliance. Whilst the research found that proposition was not viable, it found one of several underlying reasons for this – \u00a0the surprising fact that there was no structure linking folk organisations in Europe (whereas most other aspects of music \u2013 e.g. jazz, opera – and the arts in general – had well-established, often EU-funded network structures).<\/p>\nThat report and subsequent discussion papers and meetings on the idea of a European folk network were shared with delegates to various showcases and many European organisers were invited to informal consultations and meetings, as were officers from other UK and European agencies including British Council and Kunstenpunt (now Poppunt) from Flanders. The results of planning meetings from 2015 onwards had to be put on hold for at least two years due to purely temporary personal circumstances but in 2018 a small group took the initiative again and in early 2019 the network was formally structured and legally registered.<\/p>\n
MM: A basic website that explains the aims and ambitions is already available but I’d like to ask you about one of the areas of activity, that I think is one of the biggest needs of our community: policy and advocacy. In previous issues of our newsletter it was mentioned the lack of representation in relevant contexts of policies. Is there already any concrete planned initiative related to this topic?<\/strong>
\nNK:<\/strong>\u00a0The EFN will need to build up its contacts with policy makers in European countries and in pan-European agencies such as the EU.\u00a0This will not happen overnight but will be the work of the next couple of years. Contact is already being made with various national and international authorities and EFN will place advocacy at the heart of future planning – its influence will strengthen as the network develops.<\/p>\nMM: Regarding the previous question, the EFN is registered in Brussels, I think that it is for obvious reasons of proximity with the European centers of decisions. Have you had any contact with any authority? If so, which feedback did you get?<\/strong>
\nNK:\u00a0<\/strong>We are not yet in direct touch with EU authorities but that will be one of the key plans for the future (see the answer above).<\/p>\nMM: The EFN has already scheduled a meeting in Brussels for days 28 and 29 of November. Can you share with us any of the topics that will be discussed?<\/strong>
\nNK:\u00a0<\/strong>The agenda for the conference will be shaped by the members – we are asking for suggestions and subjects but there will be plenty of opportunity to introduce subjects during the conference. Because it is a first meeting of the members, the agenda will focus on discussion of members\u2019 priorities and realistic plans for future work<\/p>\nMM: Is there any profile of persons or organizations that the EFN is specially in need of?<\/strong>
\nNK:<\/strong>\u00a0Just more members from every country in Europe – and not just EU countries but all of the continent, from Iceland to Russia to Portugal.<\/p>\nMM: And, finally, tell the readers why should they join the EFN.<\/strong>
\nNK:\u00a0<\/strong>Members should look at the vision and aims of the network. By joining they contribute to the collective impact and voice of the network and can contribute to the work of the network.<\/p>\nThe main benefits of membership are opportunities to meet, share and collaborate with others, increasing members\u2019 own contacts, the collective influence of a strong sector, and the mobility of artists and organisers in Europe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Thank you, Nod!<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n\nFIND ME AT…<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\nSome interesting dates for the community (and where you can find me if you happened to be there, just let me know):<\/div>\n\n- WOMEX<\/strong>.\u00a0Tampere (Finland)<\/strong>. 23rd – 27th October. We’ll have a table for Mapamundi M\u00fasica at the booth of Sounds from Spain and a showcase by Monsieur Doumani on Thursday at 24h.<\/li>\n
- Torres Vedras (Portugal)<\/strong>.\u00a08th November. Festival Accorde\u00f5es do Mundo, for the concert by Janusz Prusinowski Trio focused on harmonia polska.<\/li>\n
- Oslo (Norway).\u00a0<\/strong>14th-17th November, for Folkelarm.<\/li>\n
- Israel Showcase for Jazz and Worldwide Music<\/strong>. 20th-23th November. I will be in Tel Aviv and available for meetings on days 18-20, before the festival.<\/li>\n
- Brussels (Belgium)<\/strong>. 28th-29th November, for the first meeting of the European Folk Network.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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I write you\u00a0from the office now, after returning from Jeonju Int’l Sori Festival where I was with\u00a0Janusz Prusinowski Kompania<\/a>\u00a0and Manu Sabat\u00e9<\/strong> and the Fira Mediterr\u00e0nia de Manresa, where we premiered the collaboration<\/a>\u00a0between\u00a0Vig\u00fcela\u00a0<\/strong>and the Valencian\u00a0Josep Aparicio “Apa” and Eduard Navarro<\/strong>. Here below I am with my right hand, Sherezade, at our stand at Fira.<\/p>\nBut I am already packing the woolen caps and the scarfs to head to Tampere. It’s WOMEX time<\/strong>! I will be pleased to meet again so many old and new friends from the world music community.\u00a0Find me\u00a0at Sounds from Spain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n For the meantime, enjoy\u00a0these appealing contents: a mini-interview, with\u00a0Bojan Djordjevic<\/strong>, from\u00a0festival Todo Mundo\u00a0<\/strong>(Belgrade),\u00a0a deeper plunge in the\u00a0European Folk Network\u00a0<\/strong>with\u00a0Nod Knowles\u00a0<\/strong>and the usual sections of the newsletter.<\/p>\n If you have any suggestion of contents for the next editions, let us know. Thanks for your attention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Araceli Tzigane – info@mundimapa.com +34 676\u00a030 28 82\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n If you haven\u00b4t read them, you can find the previous interviews clicking on the names:\u00a0Michal Schmidt<\/a>\u00a0(Folk Holidays, CZ) –\u00a0Jun-Lin Yeoh<\/a>\u00a0(Rainforest WMF, MY) –\u00a0Luis Lles<\/a>\u00a0(Pirineos Sur, ES) –\u00a0Amitava Bhattacharya<\/a>\u00a0(Sur Jahan, IN) –\u00a0Nicolas Ribalet<\/a>\u00a0(Sukiyaki Meets the World, JP) –\u00a0Sergio Zaera<\/a>\u00a0(Poborina Folk, ES) –\u00a0Per Idar Alm\u00e5s<\/a>\u00a0(F\u00f8rdefestivalen, NO) –\u00a0Bo\u017cena Szota<\/a>\u00a0(EthnoPort, PL) –\u00a0Ken Day<\/a>\u00a0(Urkult, SE) –\u00a0Mads Olesen<\/a>\u00a0(5 Continents, CH) –\u00a0Karolina Waszczuk & Bartek Drozd<\/a>\u00a0(Jagiellonian Fair, PL) –\u00a0Alkis Zopoglou<\/a>\u00a0(Mediterranean Music Festival, GR\/CH) –\u00a0Tom Frouge<\/a>\u00a0(Globalquerque, US) –\u00a0Braulio P\u00e9rez<\/a>\u00a0(M\u00fasica en el Parque, ES)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n MM – Which are the global objectives of your festival?<\/strong><\/p>\n BD:\u00a0<\/strong>I think that there is great music played in every corner of the world, we just have to be curious and discover it. M<\/strong> BD:\u00a0<\/strong>Living in Serbia means you always have to fight with financial issues. Culture and music has been supported, but in the way, that every year one have to fight from the start and the results of supporting decisions are known\u00a0late April and that is why we had to move the festival for the second half of the year. BD:\u00a0<\/strong>Doing festival like this is great pleasure. On the other hand, as I said, there are so many great bands that deserve to be presented here.\u00a0But, we cannot have 20 concerts at the festival. Even 10 is bit too much. So, we have to keep our desires under the control \ud83d\ude42 MM – In one sentence, summarise the reason\/s to go to your festival.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n BD:\u00a0<\/strong>Festival is done with great love and enthusiasm and musicians felt that and are willin’ to stay here longer.\u00a0The other reason is contact with the audience – usually after the show the contact is so friendly that audience\u00a0and artists are going together for a glass of wine or beer and stay into the discussion almost till the morning. In the\u00a0previous issue<\/a>\u00a0of this newsletter we announced the birth of the EFN, linked its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0and noted the first meeting, planned for 28 & 29 November in Brussels. Mapamundi M\u00fasica is founder member and I want to encourage the community to join too.<\/strong><\/p>\n In this occasion we have had the chance\u00a0to ask Nod Knowles, the administrator of the network, some questions to get in more detail into some points. If you haven\u00b4t checked the website, I recommend you to do it before reading the interview. It is\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mapamundi M\u00fasica:\u00a0The EFN has been made public few weeks ago but the initial idea is much older, isn\u00b4t it? What is the background of this initiative?\u00a0<\/strong> That report and subsequent discussion papers and meetings on the idea of a European folk network were shared with delegates to various showcases and many European organisers were invited to informal consultations and meetings, as were officers from other UK and European agencies including British Council and Kunstenpunt (now Poppunt) from Flanders. The results of planning meetings from 2015 onwards had to be put on hold for at least two years due to purely temporary personal circumstances but in 2018 a small group took the initiative again and in early 2019 the network was formally structured and legally registered.<\/p>\n MM: A basic website that explains the aims and ambitions is already available but I’d like to ask you about one of the areas of activity, that I think is one of the biggest needs of our community: policy and advocacy. In previous issues of our newsletter it was mentioned the lack of representation in relevant contexts of policies. Is there already any concrete planned initiative related to this topic?<\/strong> MM: Regarding the previous question, the EFN is registered in Brussels, I think that it is for obvious reasons of proximity with the European centers of decisions. Have you had any contact with any authority? If so, which feedback did you get?<\/strong> MM: The EFN has already scheduled a meeting in Brussels for days 28 and 29 of November. Can you share with us any of the topics that will be discussed?<\/strong> MM: Is there any profile of persons or organizations that the EFN is specially in need of?<\/strong> MM: And, finally, tell the readers why should they join the EFN.<\/strong> The main benefits of membership are opportunities to meet, share and collaborate with others, increasing members\u2019 own contacts, the collective influence of a strong sector, and the mobility of artists and organisers in Europe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Mapamundi M\u00fasica is an agency of management and booking.\u00a0Learn more here<\/a>. Check our proposals at\u00a0our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n We also offer you our\u00a0Mundofon\u00edas<\/a>\u00a0radio show, probably the leader about world music in Spanish language (on 46 stations in 17 countries). 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\n<\/div>\nSummary<\/strong>:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n
\u00b7 Mini interview with festival manager: Bojan Djordjevic from\u00a0<\/span>Todo Mundo\u00a0<\/span><\/span>(Belgrade, Serbia).<\/span><\/span>
\n\u00b7 Nod Knowles, administrator of the\u00a0<\/span>European Folk Network,\u00a0<\/span>explains some details in depth.
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\n<\/div>\nCURRENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR FESTIVALS\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
\n<\/div>\nMINI INTERVIEW WITH BOJAN DJORDJEVIC\u00a0FROM
\nFESTIVAL TODO MUNDO<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/strong><\/span>Bojan Djordjevic, together with Oliver Djordjevic, Marija Vitas and Svetlana Spajic are the board of the World Music Association Serbia, whose work of dissemination is huge and of high quality. Check\u00a0their website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMost of the festival program is our personal “taste”, but we cannot bring todo mundo to Belgrade\u00a0at once. What I like is that artists are standing strong with the music they play, that one feels\u00a0dedication. Mostly we do not go for highly commercial groups, as we find that already on many spots.
\nEven in the new world with all the media, there are things that has to be discovered and are worthwhile to be discovered.
\nOn the other hand it is nice to know that the artists are with their feet on the ground and understanding the reality in this part of Europe.<\/div>\n
\nThe festival name shows that as well – therefore music from many countries should be presented.
\nOf course we always wish to have focus on some region, country, instrument or style, and also to present few local artists,\u00a0but apart from that we want to have not more than one group from each country. And, not to forget, sometimes\u00a0is important to bring artists, who, beside the high quality have also social impact – like Vardan Hovanissian & Emre Gultekin\u00a0this year, or to bring here artists from the countries that have not been presented here before, – I am sure less than 1% of\u00a0people knows anything about music from Cyprus, so presenting high quality act like Monsieur Doumani was very important.<\/p>\nM – What are the most complicated or difficult issues to deal with in your festival?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThe other issue is how to deliver\u00a0our message to more people when the media are mostly going for commercial music. Few years ago media situation was different.\u00a0There were more options to present this music on radio and TV programs and in the magazines, now most of them are much more\u00a0into the politics, reality and sports. So, we have to find new ways to reach the people, as social media networks are not enough.
\nCombination of new and old approach seems like the solution at this moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nAnd, when we do not have as many concerts as we would love to, we have to be careful about presentation of the local world music scene.
\nThere is lots of great music coming from Serbia nowadays, some new and young artists coming, but also we have to present\u00a0some of the great and well known names.<\/p>\n
\nThat means the atmosphere is great and you feel it from the start. Beside that we have two concerts per evening,\u00a0so anyone has time to search around Belgrade and discover some secret or well known places in the friendly city.
\nOn top of all that you can hear many great concerts at the festival where all artists are treated equally – we\u00a0do not have support group nor headliners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\nEUROPEAN FOLK NETWORK IS BORN<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
Nod Knowles, former President of Europe Jazz Network, has had an international career including as Head of Music at Scottish Arts Council, CEO of Bath Festivals, one of the founding organisers of the European Folk Network (EFN) – and also of the UK\/Ireland Jazz Promotion Network (JPN) and, currently, initiator and manager of an artistic exchange programme with the Netherlands.
\nHe has held a number of advisory roles (e.g. with British Council, Arts Council Northern Ireland and Arts Council Wales) and as an independent consultant for over 40 years he has worked with a wide range of artists and organisations in research, review, policy, funding, education, project management and artistic direction.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\nNod Knowles:<\/strong>\u00a0The genesis of the network originated after a research project – commissioned by the Burnsong organisation in Scotland – reported on the potential for establishing a Scottish-European base for the American folk music organisation Folk Alliance. Whilst the research found that proposition was not viable, it found one of several underlying reasons for this – \u00a0the surprising fact that there was no structure linking folk organisations in Europe (whereas most other aspects of music \u2013 e.g. jazz, opera – and the arts in general – had well-established, often EU-funded network structures).<\/p>\n
\nNK:<\/strong>\u00a0The EFN will need to build up its contacts with policy makers in European countries and in pan-European agencies such as the EU.\u00a0This will not happen overnight but will be the work of the next couple of years. Contact is already being made with various national and international authorities and EFN will place advocacy at the heart of future planning – its influence will strengthen as the network develops.<\/p>\n
\nNK:\u00a0<\/strong>We are not yet in direct touch with EU authorities but that will be one of the key plans for the future (see the answer above).<\/p>\n
\nNK:\u00a0<\/strong>The agenda for the conference will be shaped by the members – we are asking for suggestions and subjects but there will be plenty of opportunity to introduce subjects during the conference. Because it is a first meeting of the members, the agenda will focus on discussion of members\u2019 priorities and realistic plans for future work<\/p>\n
\nNK:<\/strong>\u00a0Just more members from every country in Europe – and not just EU countries but all of the continent, from Iceland to Russia to Portugal.<\/p>\n
\nNK:\u00a0<\/strong>Members should look at the vision and aims of the network. By joining they contribute to the collective impact and voice of the network and can contribute to the work of the network.<\/p>\n
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