{"id":756,"date":"2019-03-20T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2020-04-23T14:40:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T13:40:36","slug":"5-november-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/en\/newsletter\/5-november-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #5 November 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u00a0am Araceli Tzigane. Welcome to\u00a0Mapamundi M\u00fasica’s<\/a>\u00a0November newsletter. Here we are, working on the next season bookings and novelties!<\/p>\n

At WOMEX\u00a0I attended the presentation of Creative Europe offices from Spain,\u00a0Netherlands, Portugal and UK-Wales, where\u00a0Music Moves Europe<\/strong>, the “overarching framework for the European Commission’s initiatives and actions in support of the European music sector<\/em>“, was presented. What can we expect from this, as agents of the world music scene? Find below a brief summary to get an idea.\u00a0

We include in this newsletter another\u00a0little interview\u00a0with a festival director. If you have any suggestion of contents for the next editions, let us know. Thanks for your attention.<\/p>\n

Araceli Tzigane – info@mundimapa.com +34 676 30 28 82<\/p>\n

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Summary<\/strong>: <\/span>Music Moves Europe. M<\/span>ini\u00a0<\/span>interview<\/span> with festival director: Amitava Bhattacharya<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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CREATIVE EUROPE AND MUSIC MOVES EUROPE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This article is specially interesting for Europeans and I think it is also informative for the other continents. But if you were not interested, please, don\u00b4t miss the interview with the\u00a0enlighting Amitava,\u00a0below.<\/span><\/p>\n

And this\u00a0is very serious so it doesn\u00b4t include any picture. I promise much warmer content below.\u00a0But now…<\/p>\n

Music Moves Europe (MME from now on) is currently on a step of “preparatory action”, with the motto of “Boosting European music diversity and talent”.\u00a0Undoubtedly, we the agents of world music know much about diversity and talent. How can it be useful for us? At the moment, the\u00a0four calls<\/a>\u00a0related to this preparatory actions are closed and the results not published yet. But, what have been done so far and how is the world music scene involved, if so? Find all the official details,\u00a0here<\/a>. And I continue with\u00a0my insights: one of the key events has been\u00a0an “in-depth conversation with the music sector in Europe”, which\u00a0results\u00a0are published here<\/a>.\u00a0In pages 49 and 50 you can find the participant’s list. I don\u00b4t know each and everyone but it seems there is a lack of agents of world music scene. Just to name the one that\u00a0instantly springs to mind:\u00a0Womex. Not even\u00a0the world\u00a0leader trade fair that has been gathering data for 24 years and that has exported their expertise to other continents\u00a0was present there.<\/p>\n

MME actions include also a\u00a0talent award<\/a>\u00a0for popular and contemporary music, whose winners will be announced next January. This prize is successor of the former one, with that boombastic name of\u00a0European Border Breakers Awards<\/em>, which\u00a02018 winner are\u00a0here<\/a>. Ah, I got it: to break European borders, it is a must to sing\u00a0in English, no matter where you are\u00a0from*. Congratulations.<\/p>\n

Can we keep any hope about Creative Europe for world music scene? Well, apart of considering that our world music scene may need a deep self-analysis too, while checking the results of the latests calls for cooperation, I found a project that got support and whose creators are focused on world music. That is the project 2020 Troubadours, lead by\u00a0Via Lactea<\/a>, the Belgian agency, in cooperation with\u00a0FlonsFlons<\/a>\u00a0from France,\u00a0EtnoFest<\/a>\u00a0from Serbia and\u00a0Mediawave<\/a>\u00a0from Hungary. Via Lactea are kindly sharing the\u00a0complete application form<\/a>\u00a0in their website. Congratulations and much success and joy for all the team of Troubadaurs 2020!<\/p>\n

* Salvador Sobral sings 3 songs in Portuguese and one in Spanish in his last album\u00a0Excuse me. <\/em>The rest are in English. His song for EBBA was in Portuguese. A happy exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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** Do you have a world music\u00a0festival and you want to be included in our mini interviews? <\/strong><\/span>Contact us.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
CURRENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR FESTIVALS.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
After the mini interviews with the director of\u00a0Folk Holidays<\/a>, Michal Schmidt, of Rainforest World Music Festival<\/a>,\u00a0Jun-Lin Yeoh, and of\u00a0Pirineos Sur<\/a>, Luis Lles, in this occasion we travel to Bengal to visit Banglanatak\u00a0Dot Com, the company lead by our\u00a0\u00a0guest.<\/strong><\/div>\n

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MINI INTERVIEW WITH AMITAVA BHATTACHARYA FROM\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>SUR JAHAN FESTIVAL<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Sur Jahan, formerly named Sufi Sutra, takes place in Kolkata (1-3 February) and Goa (6-8 February). Banglanatak Dot Com is a company dedicated to culture for development and they carry out many other initiatives related to traditional music, art and handicraft for the improvement of living conditions, as well as for enabling the access to others’ cultures.<\/strong><\/p>\n

MM – What do you search in an artist when you program?<\/strong>
\nAB –\u00a0We want to present diversity of culture. And thus each year we try to present variations with excellence. We also try to keep women participation. We don’t much entertain electric instrument or\u00a0electronic music. Vocal is a must for our festival. Usual size of the band is 4 to 7.<\/p>\n

MM – Which are the global objectives of your festival?<\/strong>
\nAB –\u00a0Strengthening Cultural Exchange and celebrating cultural diversity is the basis of our festival Sur Jahan, which has a theme MUSIC FOR ALL, MUSIC FOR PEACE.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

MM – What are the most complicated or difficult issues to deal with in your festival?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAB –\u00a0Getting the right music band within budget (he smiles). Ours is a non commercial festival and we don’t much approach corporate sponsor. We do the festival from our own budget and thus limited too.<\/p>\n

MM – Which are currently the main challenges for this kind of cultural proposals like yours?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAB –\u00a0Its 8 years old festival, more or less the process is streamlined, Internationally people know about the festival. Audience is eager to attend it. So not much of challenge really.<\/p>\n

MM – In one sentence, summarize the reason\/s to go to your festival.\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAB – There may not be a festival like this, that’s what all participating bands and audience says each year. All bands stay together for 3 days in Kolkata, travel together to Goa and then stay together again. So, friendship get developed, new music happens then and later. We also present a traditional music based opening and create a festival band with members from all bands to present at\u00a0Grand Finale<\/em>. Our traditional folk stage is also very popular.<\/p>\n

Picture: Amitava Bhattacharya’s former Facebook profile picture.<\/div>\n

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WHO WE ARE AND SISTER PROJECTS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\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). We produce\u00a0the\u00a0Transglobal World Music Chart<\/a>\u00a0with our partner \u00c1ngel Romero from WorldMusicCentral.com. And we lead also the\u00a0Asociaci\u00f3n para la Difusi\u00f3n de los Estilos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Feel free to request info if you wish. For further information about us,\u00a0get in touch by email, telephone (+34 676 30 28 82),\u00a0our website<\/a>\u00a0or at\u00a0our Facebook<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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