{"id":916,"date":"2019-05-21T21:42:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T21:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/?p=916"},"modified":"2020-04-23T14:21:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T13:21:56","slug":"boletin-11-mayo-2019-solo-en-ingles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/en\/newsletter\/boletin-11-mayo-2019-solo-en-ingles\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #11 May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I<\/span>\u00a0am Araceli Tzigane. Welcome to Mapamundi M\u00fasica’s<\/a>\u00a0May’s monthly newsletter. I am a bit exhausted after arranging flights\u00a0for many musicians and destinations… and remembering the last flight’s quarrel\u00a0at the check-in\u00a0desk. And at the Canadian Music Week I verified once more that I am not alone…\u00a0Check below to discover why.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Apart of this,\u00a0this issue includes one more mini interview about the challenges for festivals, in this case with Mads Olesen, from\u00a05 Continents<\/a>\u00a0festival, and some more topics.\u00a0If 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><\/div>\n
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Summary<\/strong>:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Mini interview\u00a0with festival director: Mads Olesen from<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>5 Continents<\/span>\u00a0(Switzerland) –\u00a0<\/span>Mapamundi M\u00fasica shares:\u00a0tips for flying with instruments, by\u00a0Folk Alliance<\/span>\u00a0– Find me in… – New (and still)\u00a0<\/span>open calls.<\/span><\/h6>\n
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CURRENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR FESTIVALS\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\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)<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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MINI INTERVIEW WITH MADS OLESEN FROM 5 CONTINENTS<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Its complete name is Festival des 5 Continents and takes place in Martigny, Switzerland. This year’s edition will happen\u00a0from 13th\u00a0to 16th of June and\u00a0I will attend for the first time.\u00a0I am eager!<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

The concerts program is splitted in\u00a0Concerts World and Concerts Local Global. The names are\u00a0quite meaningful: international artists and artists settled locally, doing world music, respectively, and two different and complementary objetives. Check more at the\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mads Olesen is the\u00a0D\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9 aux Affaires culturelles at Martigny and his words are very enlightening about the spirit of a festival like this, a spirit that probably most of us, involved in the world music in any role or position, share. Thank you for your answers, Mads!<\/strong><\/p>\n

MM – What do you search in an artist when you program?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMO – Artistic quality within \u00ab Worldmusic \u00bb, passion, authencity and the capacity to transmit his\/her music to the public.<\/p>\n

MM – Which are the global objectives of your festival?<\/strong>
\nMO – The Festival of the 5 Continents exist since 1994 and we can put out two main ideas: The first one is\u00a0to permit our public to discover world music and cultures from all over the planet. The next one is to engage ourself through the festival for a better \u00ab together-living \u00bb. (Martigny is a small city in the Alps but 35% of the population comes from abroad and we are 110 nationalities living together). The festival is a symbol of peaceful together-living.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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MM – What are the most complicated or difficult issues to deal with in your festival?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMO – The Festival is completely free, all concerts are free. To offer this, we have to do a big job to find money and to raise funds. We did it for 26 years. But every year this is a hard business. But the result is that everybody can come and listen for free to more then 30 concerts, events, art exhitions…All the communities in the town are working with the Festival. We serve thousands of meals and this is done in favour of the Festival. It is a quite a hard organisation, BUT the result is solidarity and local engagement. This year we start up an ecological process to make the Festival a real sustainable event with recycling on all levels,\u2026<\/div>\n
MM – Which are currently the main challenges for this kind of cultural proposals like yours?\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMO\u00a0– To offer a high level artistic quality program together with the fact that the Festival is free. To keep a high level of local engagement in an international event (about 100 artists from 20 countries, 15 communities in 2019).<\/div>\n
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MM – In one sentence, summarize the reason\/s to go to your festival.\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMO – A Festival with a high degree of friendliness, free world class music in the middle of the Alps.<\/div>\n
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Picture<\/strong>: super nice of Mads’s Facebook former profile picture.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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MAPAMUNDI M\u00daSICA SHARES…<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
The tips for flying with instruments<\/a>, and more news, by the Folk Alliance International!\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span>

<\/em><\/strong><\/span>Being us, the people involved on live music, one of the most regular clients of the flight companies, it is depressing how badly we are treated many times when flying with instruments. No matter if they are hold baggage or hand baggage: the problems will probably show up.<\/span>

At the Canadian Music Week I had the pleasure to talk with Aengus Finnan, executive director of the\u00a0Folk Alliance International (at the picture) and to discover this\u00a0<\/span>guide with deep and useful information for flying with instruments<\/a>\u00a0not to miss by musicians and managers.<\/span>

Aengus told me also about the\u00a0<\/span>Nordic Folk Alliance Conference 2019<\/strong>\u00a0that is a milestone in the organization’s internationalization, and about which you’ll learn more\u00a0<\/span>in their newsletter of May<\/a>, to which you can also subscribe. In parallel, the\u00a0<\/span>conference<\/a>\u00a0of Folk Alliance International will take place in New Orleans in January 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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FIND ME IN…<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Some dates of interest for the international audience could be:<\/div>\n