various venues
25, 28 & 30 May
A key part of the concert programme for many years has also been a series of talks that explore the musical and aesthetic ideas behind the performances, offer a more personal insight into the artists, and give festival audiences the chance to engage directly with the musicians through questions and open conversation.
21:30 (afer the film screening) | KINODVOR
After the Ballaké Sissoko, Kora tales film screening, there will be a discussion with co-director Lucy Durán, Professor at the Department of Music, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her work focuses primarily on the music of Mali and Cuba. From 2000 to 2013, she presented the weekly programme World Routes on BBC Radio 3. Her research into Mandé music of West Africa dates back to the late 1970s.
Moderator: Bogdan Benigar
11:00 | HOTEL SLON
La Niña (Carola Moccia) is an Italian musician and songwriter whose work brings together tradition, contemporary music and a strong expressive identity. Her sound blends Neapolitan musical heritage with electronic and urban influences, with language – often Neapolitan dialect – playing a central role as a carrier of meaning and emotion.
In her lyrics, themes of femininity, power and social roles unfold as layered, symbolic narratives that move between the intimate and the collective, questioning identity, the body and wider social structures.
Moderator: Petra Meterc
17:30 (after the concert) | KLUB CD
Cerys Hafana is a Welsh musician whose music ranges across minimalism, traditional and avant-folk, contemporary Breton folk styles, old Welsh ballads, jazz and what they themselves winningly describe as ‘sad Welsh harp pop’.
Moderator: Katarina Juvančič
