The World Music Expo (WOMEX) has unveiled the first set of official jury-selected showcase artists scheduled to perform in Tampere, Finland, October 23 – 27, 2019.
The 2019 selection thus far represents a wide-range of world music genres and styles: new tango, urban-edged Senegambian sabar drums, polyphonic vocal tradition of Georgia; the fiddles of Finland, Brazil’s ‘Queen of Carimbó’; an Iranian orchestra, Sindhi sarangi fiddle from Rajasthan deser, Korean pansori singing , reggae, sacred steel guitar gospel blues and more.
The first set of jury-selected WOMEX 19 Showcase artists are:
3MA: Ballaké Sissoko, Driss El Maloumi, Rajery (Mali/Morocco/Madagascar)
Arat Kilo w/ Mamani Keita & Mike Ladd (Mali/USA/France)
Bani Hill Band (Georgia)
Bongeziwe Mabandla (South Africa)
Dona Onete (Brazil)
Duo Emilia Lajunen & Suvi Oskala (Finland)
El Cachivache Quinteto (Argentina)
Fofoulah (Gambia/Senegal/UK)
Khonyagaran (Iran)
Lakha Khan (India)
Lemma (Algeria/France)
Marina Satti (Greece/Sudan)
Maya Kamaty (La Réunion)
NST & The Soul Sauce meets Kim Yulhee (South Korea)
Roosevelt Collier (USA)
Surel, Segal, Gubistch (France/Argentina)
More about WOMEX: www.womex.com
Headline photo: Bani Hill Band (Georgia)