The Wisconsin Union Theater’s free Madison World Music Festival will showcase an online multicultural music experience to patrons September 11-12, 2020 with live and recorded performances and live workshops.
The 2020 Madison World Music Festival lineup includes the following:
September 11
Workshops
1:00 p.m. workshop with Natu Camara; more details to be announced
3:00 p.m. Mordovian (Russian) dance workshop with OYME
5:00 p.m. Ho-Chunk Nation dance, music and education workshop, titled “Living in Two Worlds,” with the Wisconsin Dells Singers
Concerts
7:00 p.m. Ho-Chunk Nation drumming and dance by Wisconsin Dells Singers – live performance
7:45 pm. Finno-Ugric folk music set to electronic beats by OYME
8:30 p.m. Guinean native, soul, Afro-rock, and Afro-pop by Natu Camara
Sept. 12
Workshops
1:00 p.m. Jordanian music and instruments workshop with Farah Siraj
3:00 p.m. children’s workshop on Haiti and Haitian rhythms with Lakou Mizik
5:00 p.m. Afro-Cuban rhythms workshop with Rebulú
Concerts
7:00 p.m. Afro-Cuban, Latin music by Rebulú – live performance
7:45 p.m. Jordanian music by Farah Siraj
8:30 p.m. Haitian music by Lakou Mizik
“The Madison World Music Festival is a way to learn about the world while enjoying incredible performances. This year, the performances will come to wherever our patrons are,” said Esty Dinur, Wisconsin Union Theater community and campus relations director and Madison World Music Festival artistic director. “In addition to online performances, for the first time in the Madison World Music Festival’s history, we are providing workshops with all Festival artists.”
In holding the Madison World Music Festival, the Wisconsin Union Theater joins other Consortium of World Music Presenters members in a month-long, online festival of world music featuring concerts, presentations and panels, called Global Music Month. Global Music Month 2020 brings together more than 15 U.S. and Canadian festivals and presenters’ events under one banner for a celebration of world music.
The Wisconsin Union Theater team made the decision to hold this year’s Festival in an online format for the health and safety of patrons, Festival artists from around the world, and team members.
For more information about the Madison World Music Festival, including how to sign-up to receive information about the Festival workshops and concerts, visit union.wisc.edu/madison-world-music-festival.
[headline photo: Lakou Mizik – Photo by Daniel Schechner]
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