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<\/strong><\/h1>\nWelcome to Mapamundi M\u00fasica<\/a>‘s December’s magazine, with contents for us, the community of world \/\u00a0folk \/ traditional music all over the world. You can read the previous issues,\u00a0here<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>I<\/span>\u00a0am Araceli Tzigane.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nIt’s almost time for celebrations in my region of the world\u00a0but it’s also\u00a0the moment of the year of summarising and planning. Wish us clarity of mind for the challenges ahead. Thank you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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<\/a>I invite you to read this contents with\u00a0the soundtrack of our\u00a0<\/strong>new playlist in Soundcloud<\/a>. You might discover some awesomely enchanting recordings of artists we have included recently in our catalogue for 2020 and beyond.<\/p>\nEnjoy\u00a0much and, remember: if you have any suggestion of contents for the next editions, let us know.\u00a0And if you like it, share it and tell it to your friends!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nThanks for your attention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nAraceli Tzigane – info@mundimapa.com – +34 676\u00a030 28 82\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nFeel free to resend this newsletter to your friends\u00a0if you like it. Subscription\u00a0is available here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
\n<\/div>\nSummary<\/strong>:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00b7 Mini interview\u00a0with festival manager:\u00a0<\/span>Jarmila Vl\u010dkov\u00e1<\/span>\u00a0from\u00a0<\/span>World Music Festival Bratislava<\/span>\u00a0(Slovakia)<\/span><\/span>
\n\u00b7 In deep with\u00a0Piotr Piszczatowski<\/span>\u00a0about the\u00a0Targowisko Instrument\u00f3w (Warsaw, Poland)<\/span><\/span>
\n\u00b7\u00a0Open call\u00a0not to miss
\n\u00b7 It’s\u00a0charts time! The\u00a0best albums\u00a0of the year by WMCE and TWMC
\n\u00b7 What will come in\u00a0next issue? In deep with BlogFoolk<\/span>
\n\u00b7 Find me at…<\/span><\/h5>\n
\n**** Do you have a world music\u00a0festival and you want to be included in our mini interviews?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Contact us.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>****<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n\n
\n<\/div>\nThis magazine is open to sponsorship. Feel free to ask for details.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n\n
\n<\/div>\n\n\nCURRENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR FESTIVALS\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\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) –\u00a0Bojan Djordjevic<\/a>\u00a0(Todo Mundo, RS) –\u00a0Park Jechun<\/a>\u00a0(Jeonju Int’s Sori Festival)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMINI INTERVIEW WITH JARMILA VL\u010cKOV\u00c1 FROM\u00a0WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL BRATISLAVA<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n![](\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/993c677d53044839b1b39b2dc\/images\/65e2a2c7-b6c3-442c-a920-7bccf86688cc.jpg\")
<\/a>Jarmila Vl\u010dkov\u00e1 is the artistic director of the World Music Festival Bratislava and, without a doubt, one of the persons who is shaping the image of the music from Slovakia abroad during the last years.\u00a0She also leads the platform World Music from Slovakia (WOMUSK). Both of the initiatives are held by the NGO Amity o.z., founded in 2012.<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\nThe World Music Festival Bratislava takes place in Bratislava. The last edition was at the end of September, previous editions were hold in August. The program includes concerts, showcases of Slovak emerging bands, conferences, listening sessions and speed datings, as the activity of the Festival has two addresses, the public and the professionals.<\/p>\n
Thank you, Jarmila, for the kind and enriching\u00a0answers.<\/p>\n
MM – What do you search in an artist when you create the programme?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nJV:\u00a0<\/strong>When we plan the program of our festival, our main intention is to bring diverse and balanced program to our audience. We look for traditional performers from different parts of the world, but also new approaches and original projects. It is always a special moment when artists build up interaction with the crowd or even exceed their expectations. We are lucky enough to have a warm – hearted audience that can appreciate good music; it doesn\u00b4t matter if it is a classical Indian raga or electronic music from Argentina.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n![](\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/993c677d53044839b1b39b2dc\/images\/a2b3e420-0b54-4a79-afda-ac161f3c864d.jpg\")
MM – Which are the global objectives of your festival?<\/strong><\/p>\nJV:<\/strong>\u00a0The festival strives to reveal the global culture, from traditional to the modern one, with a focus on world music, jazz and folklore. The WMFB has daytime and evening program at different venues in the Old Town of Bratislava and we are glad if the visitors experience both, the music and city during the festival. The events offer notable opportunity to discover Slovak and global music scene at the showcases and concerts. The significant part of the festival is international conference, a place to share ideas and network.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nM<\/strong>M – What are the most complicated or difficult issues to deal with in your festival?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nJV:\u00a0<\/strong>We still see our festival as a new one, in 2020 it will be only its 5th edition. However, we had good feedback and we would be happy if it stays that way. In fact, we deal with similar simple issues as other events: what is the social, ecological impact, economic result and cultural footprint of festival in the world? Can we do better?<\/p>\n<\/div>\nMM – Which are currently the main challenges for this kind of cultural proposals like yours?<\/strong><\/div>\n\nJV:\u00a0<\/strong>There are many challenges for small festivals. We live in a fast-changing world, where art plays a vital role. The festival like ours, is a place that is supposed to build respect, educate and inspire through music.<\/p>\nMM – In one sentence, summarise the reason\/s to go to your festival.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nJV:\u00a0<\/strong>Our festival is taking place in the historic centre of a capital of Slovakia and, for visitors, it is a chance to explore the town, discover different venues from noble concert halls to hidden small clubs that are open to welcome anybody interested in Central European region, but also those who want to enjoy a variety of music from around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n![](\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/993c677d53044839b1b39b2dc\/images\/5edfe65a-f94a-4e1c-adc8-c6cf2b898b96.png\")
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Pictures’ credits<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n- Logo of the festival at their Facebook<\/li>\n
- Jarmila’s former Facebook profile picture<\/li>\n
- Collage of the edition 2019, courtesy of WMFB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nIN DEEP WITH…\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\nPiotr Piszczatowski and<\/strong>![](\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/993c677d53044839b1b39b2dc\/_compresseds\/595bad69-129d-474b-83b4-f341c69e8f60.jpg\")
the Targowisko Instrument\u00f3w<\/em>, the instruments market in Warsaw.<\/strong><\/h4>\nI’ve been lucky to attend this market three times. It takes place in April in the closing day of the Spring edition of the\u00a0Festiwal Wszystkie Mazurki \u015awiata<\/em>\u00a0(all the mazurkas of the world) in Warsaw and it is an outstanding experience of colours, shapes, sounds, voices and joy. Furthermore, from 19h it starts the night of dance, in which around 30 bands, mainly performers of traditional Polish music, both rural and urban, both old masters and young enthusiasts play for the audience that will dance all night long.<\/strong><\/h6>\nCheck\u00a0their website<\/u><\/a>\u00a0to discover the instruments makers and check\u00a0their Facebook<\/a>\u00a0page to get an idea of the ambient there. And read the interview below (translated from Polish into English by the kind\u00a0Ewa Gom\u00f3\u0142ka<\/a>)\u00a0to understand the steps that, for 10 years, Piotr and his partners took to reach their current achievements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7 The application to participate in the market will be open at mid of January \u00b7\u00b7\u00b7<\/strong><\/h5>\nMM – I think you were a kind of pioneer in Poland of this idea of a fair of instruments makers, why did you start this, instead of any other thing?
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\nPP – I was not the first one who tried to organize such an event. But the unpredictable luck made that I was the first person who succeeded to organize this kind of event on a large scale in Poland. The event where real market rules are applied \u2013 the makers really sell their instruments-, and, most importantly, it wasn\u2019t a one-time event, but it led to the multiannual process of recreating the community of the instrument makers in Poland and neighboring countries.\u00a0![](\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/993c677d53044839b1b39b2dc\/images\/ceec738c-94df-41c4-8b33-a8e6e9cefb02.jpg\")
<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u201cThey are all dead\u201d, I was told in one of the musical instruments museums. That was the common view back then. It was 2010 when we came back from Brittany with Janusz Prusinowski Kompania. We saw there many phenomena that were revolutionary for us. First, the Dance Night (Fest Noz<\/em>) with thousands of people dancing marvelously. There were so many of them, that the organizers could spend the money from the tickets to hire more than a dozen bands to play all night. Nearby, there was a tent with instrument fair in it. That was another shock \u2013 excellent instruments were purchased at fair prices, everything based on the market rules, with almost no state support. That was in sharp contrast to the situation in Poland at the time, where we were constantly told that there was no future for traditional music. In Brittany we saw that traditional musicians, their music and instruments should not be put in the museum. This gave us hope that we could change the situation in Poland. We devoted the next 10 years to this mission, to develop the Mazurkas of the World<\/em>\u00a0festival, the Instrument Fair,\u00a0S\u0142uchaj Uchem<\/em>\u00a0children theatre and our band.<\/div>\n <\/p>\n
All these phenomena became, as one of our friends said, the \u201cicebreaker\u201d to the existing prejudice. However, we must highlight that all of them are complementary, like parts of one engine. The Instrument Fair wouldn\u2019t exist without the Festival and its growing, enthusiastic public.Why do I do this? Because there is no greater pleasure than seeing something reborn. That\u2019s why I call the Instrument Fair my fourth child.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![](\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/993c677d53044839b1b39b2dc\/images\/39921f28-a43c-462f-a1ad-33215ff08e48.jpg\")
<\/div>\nMM – Which are been the biggest achievements that you have got in the fair along the years?<\/strong><\/div>\n <\/p>\n
PP –\u00a0It\u2019s the carnival<\/strong>! For me, the Fair\u2019s formula is the key issue. These aren\u2019t strictly business meetings. You know, those with renting separate stands and without contact between the participants. It\u2019s the opposite. I think that the formula of carnival taking place in the central square of a city, the formula we know from historical times, f. ex. medieval or renaissance is perfect. So this is very special festive time of role reversal, atmosphere of excitement, many events, overflowing crowd, hustle and bustle, many languages from around the world, contrasts, unusual and unknown musical instruments. We intentionally add a lot of simultaneous events to our Instrument Fair: concerts, ritual and children theatre, paratheatrical and dance events. All these ingredients raise the temperature in this interpersonal meeting where the barriers between people are being broken. There may appear something new between the people \u2013 a new quality.<\/p>\nIt was great success, from the very beginning, that the instrument makers liberated themselves from the isolation, or even specific hibernation. We must realize that at that time, many of them never succeeded to sell an instrument and also weren\u2019t really seen as artists by their own communities. This means not only that they were living in a certain state of frustration but also that they weren\u2019t performing their culture-creating and integration function. It\u2019s changing now. They are great personalities able to bring together the artistic and spiritual life of the community. The traditional role of the art is something that sticks together the parts of a broken jug and makes that we can drink water from it again.<\/p>\n
![](\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/993c677d53044839b1b39b2dc\/images\/d9f04de5-d69d-463f-a24c-208a48874195.jpg\")
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Secondly, this very specific Polish tendency to work in narrow fields of expertise was broken. It came out that if we invite people of different luthier specialties whether it is traditional, futuristic or classical, we get wonderful effect of unfettered and miscellaneous space of liberty. There are amateur instrument makers and professional luthiers standing side by side. Each of them is different, dissimilar and I enjoy the fact that they are unlike each other. Each of them is a potential master to the future generations of students.<\/p>\n
So the instrument makers met and the following years the community has grown up to almost 300 people, who are invited to the event. Each year about 120 instrument makers meet at the instrument fair and then they collaborate creatively, interchange their knowledge and ideas, make some projects together all year round. Before this first gathering, it was unimaginable.<\/p>\n
The last important thing is the international character of this event. Over the years it became not only local and rural but just international. Each year we host artists and instrument makers from at least ten European countries and we happened to host artist from Mongolia or India too. I consider this aspect as crucial today in these very difficult times when so many spaces are closed and hostile. Creating spaces that are friendly to people who create new artistic and social realities is a really great venture for us. The art has this really big potential to cross the boundaries that are constantly being rebuilt.<\/p>\n
It’s almost time for celebrations in my region of the world\u00a0but it’s also\u00a0the moment of the year of summarising and planning. Wish us clarity of mind for the challenges ahead. Thank you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Enjoy\u00a0much and, remember: if you have any suggestion of contents for the next editions, let us know.\u00a0And if you like it, share it and tell it to your friends!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Thanks for your attention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Araceli Tzigane – info@mundimapa.com – +34 676\u00a030 28 82\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Summary<\/strong>:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/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) –\u00a0Bojan Djordjevic<\/a>\u00a0(Todo Mundo, RS) –\u00a0Park Jechun<\/a>\u00a0(Jeonju Int’s Sori Festival)<\/strong><\/p>\n The World Music Festival Bratislava takes place in Bratislava. The last edition was at the end of September, previous editions were hold in August. The program includes concerts, showcases of Slovak emerging bands, conferences, listening sessions and speed datings, as the activity of the Festival has two addresses, the public and the professionals.<\/p>\n Thank you, Jarmila, for the kind and enriching\u00a0answers.<\/p>\n MM – What do you search in an artist when you create the programme?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n JV:\u00a0<\/strong>When we plan the program of our festival, our main intention is to bring diverse and balanced program to our audience. We look for traditional performers from different parts of the world, but also new approaches and original projects. It is always a special moment when artists build up interaction with the crowd or even exceed their expectations. We are lucky enough to have a warm – hearted audience that can appreciate good music; it doesn\u00b4t matter if it is a classical Indian raga or electronic music from Argentina.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n JV:<\/strong>\u00a0The festival strives to reveal the global culture, from traditional to the modern one, with a focus on world music, jazz and folklore. The WMFB has daytime and evening program at different venues in the Old Town of Bratislava and we are glad if the visitors experience both, the music and city during the festival. The events offer notable opportunity to discover Slovak and global music scene at the showcases and concerts. The significant part of the festival is international conference, a place to share ideas and network.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n M<\/strong>M – What are the most complicated or difficult issues to deal with in your festival?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n JV:\u00a0<\/strong>We still see our festival as a new one, in 2020 it will be only its 5th edition. However, we had good feedback and we would be happy if it stays that way. In fact, we deal with similar simple issues as other events: what is the social, ecological impact, economic result and cultural footprint of festival in the world? Can we do better?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n JV:\u00a0<\/strong>There are many challenges for small festivals. We live in a fast-changing world, where art plays a vital role. The festival like ours, is a place that is supposed to build respect, educate and inspire through music.<\/p>\n MM – In one sentence, summarise the reason\/s to go to your festival.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n JV:\u00a0<\/strong>Our festival is taking place in the historic centre of a capital of Slovakia and, for visitors, it is a chance to explore the town, discover different venues from noble concert halls to hidden small clubs that are open to welcome anybody interested in Central European region, but also those who want to enjoy a variety of music from around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Pictures’ credits<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Check\u00a0their website<\/u><\/a>\u00a0to discover the instruments makers and check\u00a0their Facebook<\/a>\u00a0page to get an idea of the ambient there. And read the interview below (translated from Polish into English by the kind\u00a0Ewa Gom\u00f3\u0142ka<\/a>)\u00a0to understand the steps that, for 10 years, Piotr and his partners took to reach their current achievements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PP –\u00a0It\u2019s the carnival<\/strong>! For me, the Fair\u2019s formula is the key issue. These aren\u2019t strictly business meetings. You know, those with renting separate stands and without contact between the participants. It\u2019s the opposite. I think that the formula of carnival taking place in the central square of a city, the formula we know from historical times, f. ex. medieval or renaissance is perfect. So this is very special festive time of role reversal, atmosphere of excitement, many events, overflowing crowd, hustle and bustle, many languages from around the world, contrasts, unusual and unknown musical instruments. We intentionally add a lot of simultaneous events to our Instrument Fair: concerts, ritual and children theatre, paratheatrical and dance events. All these ingredients raise the temperature in this interpersonal meeting where the barriers between people are being broken. There may appear something new between the people \u2013 a new quality.<\/p>\n It was great success, from the very beginning, that the instrument makers liberated themselves from the isolation, or even specific hibernation. We must realize that at that time, many of them never succeeded to sell an instrument and also weren\u2019t really seen as artists by their own communities. This means not only that they were living in a certain state of frustration but also that they weren\u2019t performing their culture-creating and integration function. It\u2019s changing now. They are great personalities able to bring together the artistic and spiritual life of the community. The traditional role of the art is something that sticks together the parts of a broken jug and makes that we can drink water from it again.<\/p>\n Secondly, this very specific Polish tendency to work in narrow fields of expertise was broken. It came out that if we invite people of different luthier specialties whether it is traditional, futuristic or classical, we get wonderful effect of unfettered and miscellaneous space of liberty. There are amateur instrument makers and professional luthiers standing side by side. Each of them is different, dissimilar and I enjoy the fact that they are unlike each other. Each of them is a potential master to the future generations of students.<\/p>\n So the instrument makers met and the following years the community has grown up to almost 300 people, who are invited to the event. Each year about 120 instrument makers meet at the instrument fair and then they collaborate creatively, interchange their knowledge and ideas, make some projects together all year round. Before this first gathering, it was unimaginable.<\/p>\n The last important thing is the international character of this event. Over the years it became not only local and rural but just international. Each year we host artists and instrument makers from at least ten European countries and we happened to host artist from Mongolia or India too. I consider this aspect as crucial today in these very difficult times when so many spaces are closed and hostile. Creating spaces that are friendly to people who create new artistic and social realities is a really great venture for us. The art has this really big potential to cross the boundaries that are constantly being rebuilt.<\/p>\n<\/a>I invite you to read this contents with\u00a0the soundtrack of our\u00a0<\/strong>new playlist in Soundcloud<\/a>. You might discover some awesomely enchanting recordings of artists we have included recently in our catalogue for 2020 and beyond.<\/p>\n
\nFeel free to resend this newsletter to your friends\u00a0if you like it. Subscription\u00a0is available here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
\n<\/div>\n\u00b7 Mini interview\u00a0with festival manager:\u00a0<\/span>Jarmila Vl\u010dkov\u00e1<\/span>\u00a0from\u00a0<\/span>World Music Festival Bratislava<\/span>\u00a0(Slovakia)<\/span><\/span>
\n\u00b7 In deep with\u00a0Piotr Piszczatowski<\/span>\u00a0about the\u00a0Targowisko Instrument\u00f3w (Warsaw, Poland)<\/span><\/span>
\n\u00b7\u00a0Open call\u00a0not to miss
\n\u00b7 It’s\u00a0charts time! The\u00a0best albums\u00a0of the year by WMCE and TWMC
\n\u00b7 What will come in\u00a0next issue? In deep with BlogFoolk<\/span>
\n\u00b7 Find me at…<\/span><\/h5>\n
\n**** Do you have a world music\u00a0festival and you want to be included in our mini interviews?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Contact us.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>****<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
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\n<\/div>\nCURRENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR FESTIVALS\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
\nMINI INTERVIEW WITH JARMILA VL\u010cKOV\u00c1 FROM\u00a0WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL BRATISLAVA<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
<\/a>Jarmila Vl\u010dkov\u00e1 is the artistic director of the World Music Festival Bratislava and, without a doubt, one of the persons who is shaping the image of the music from Slovakia abroad during the last years.\u00a0She also leads the platform World Music from Slovakia (WOMUSK). Both of the initiatives are held by the NGO Amity o.z., founded in 2012.<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\nMM – Which are the global objectives of your festival?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
Do you like our newsletter? Tell us! Resend it to your friends! To sign up, click HERE.<\/a><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n
\nIN DEEP WITH…\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
Piotr Piszczatowski and<\/strong>
the Targowisko Instrument\u00f3w<\/em>, the instruments market in Warsaw.<\/strong><\/h4>\nI’ve been lucky to attend this market three times. It takes place in April in the closing day of the Spring edition of the\u00a0Festiwal Wszystkie Mazurki \u015awiata<\/em>\u00a0(all the mazurkas of the world) in Warsaw and it is an outstanding experience of colours, shapes, sounds, voices and joy. Furthermore, from 19h it starts the night of dance, in which around 30 bands, mainly performers of traditional Polish music, both rural and urban, both old masters and young enthusiasts play for the audience that will dance all night long.<\/strong><\/h6>\n
\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7 The application to participate in the market will be open at mid of January \u00b7\u00b7\u00b7<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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\nPP – I was not the first one who tried to organize such an event. But the unpredictable luck made that I was the first person who succeeded to organize this kind of event on a large scale in Poland. The event where real market rules are applied \u2013 the makers really sell their instruments-, and, most importantly, it wasn\u2019t a one-time event, but it led to the multiannual process of recreating the community of the instrument makers in Poland and neighboring countries.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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Note that this year the application period for Fira Mediterr\u00e0nia de Manresa\u00a0has been moved forward<\/strong>. It is open now and until 29th of January at 15h (central Europe time). Check the conditions and requirements\u00a0![](\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/993c677d53044839b1b39b2dc\/images\/2e9ee030-f4eb-421a-b772-7c39589d8e15.png\")
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<\/a>Mediterranean Music Festival (Zurich, Switzerland)<\/strong>. 18th January. My first international trip of the year will be\u00a0to the festival lead by Alkis Zopoglou, who is mentioned below. I will travel there with\u00a0