Sinan Cem Eroğlu
"Sinan Cem Eroglu is some of the best instrumentalist and the first modern virtuoso of kaval in today's Turkish Folk Music..." - Songlines Magazine - Francesco Martinelli
"There is no doubt that Eroglu performs in all roles with a significant degree of skill that may be considered prodigious." - Songlines Magazine - Michael Galea
Sanba Zao: Haitian Master Drummer & Teacher from Lakou Mizik.
Sanba Zao (Louis Lesly Marcelin) is a legend of the racine (roots) music movement in Haiti. A founder of the country’s back to the earth movement, Sanba Zao has been on the musical scene for nearly 30 years. He is not only a master drummer with an encyclopedic knowledge of traditional songs and rhythms; Zao is a ferocious frontman with a powerful voice and unstoppable energy.
Yousef Kekhia: Syrian Folktronic Singer & Producer
Yousef Kekhia is a singer-songwriter from Aleppo, now based in Berlin. He left Syria due to the revolution in 2013, graduated from university in Istanbul and finally settled in Germany in 2016.
Nova Ruth: Indonesia-Based Life Artist, Community Builder, and Activist
Nova Ruth is a female singer-songwriter, environmental activist, an emcee, a cultural-focused cafe owner (Legipait) and founder of the first artivists non-profit organisation, Lintas Batas.
Zema Yared: Liturgical Music of the Coptic Christian Church of Ethiopia
Zema Yared is an Ethiopian group based in Addis that performs the music of the Koptic Christian Orthodox liturgy of the region. Mainly sourced from the 6th century composer, St Yared, the songs sing praises of Mary, and many of the saints unique to this version of Christianity, sung in the ancient language of Ge’ez.
Zedashe Ensemble: Georgian Polyphonic Vocal Choir
Zedashe Ensemble is a polyphonic vocal choir and dance group based in the eastern medieval fortress city of Sighnaghi, Caucasus Georgia. It is one of the few mixed (male and female) choirs in Georgia that is led by women.
YAIMA: Cascadian Folktronic Duo
Featuring multi-instrumentalist & producer Masaru Higasa and vocalist Pepper Proud, YAIMA has often been described as timeless and unmistakable, offering a balanced synergy of both the masculine and feminine expression.
Maniucha & Ksawery: Ukrainian Polesian Folk-Jazz Improvisations
Maniucha & Ksawery are a duo that combine jazz improvisation with dying-off traditional songs from Polesie region in Ukraine. They evoke spring songs, harvest songs, wedding songs, love songs, beggars songs, Christmas carols, lullabies and put them all together into stories mapping the cycles of nature and human life - drawing from Maniucha's many years of travels to Ukrainian village singers as well as their own mutual musical imagination.
ÌFÉ: Future Afro-Caribeña Group
Founded by Puerto Rico-based African American producer and percussionist Otura Mun, ÌFÉ is a futuristic live electronic music project blending elements of Afro-Cuban folklore and Yoruban music with the bass driven sounds of Jamaican Dancehall, Trap and Afrobeat.
Rehmat-e-Nusrat: Uttarakhand-Based Qawwali Sufi Musicians
Rehmat-e-Nusrat are a group of young musicians from the hills of Uttarakhand in Northern India who bring a fresh new perspective to the timeless tradition of qawwali music. The group presents qawwalis by Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sufiyana kalaams by the great poets Amir Khusrao, Meera Bai, Baba Bulleh Shah, Kabir bhajans, and original compositions.
Mames Babegenush: Nordic & Eastern European Six-Piece Ensemble
Mames Babegenush unleash a sonic crossroads where east unexpectedly meets...north! The young Danish band's unique musical fusion marries their strong Scandinavian roots and elements of jazz with the vibrant dance music and klezmer traditions of eastern Europe.
Niyaz: Persian Global Trance Duo
Described by the Huffington Post as "an evolutionary force in contemporary Middle Eastern music, Niyaz (which means “yearning”), defies most standards of world music and makes a bold statement to a global audience.
Liraz: Fusing Modern Music with Persian Roots
Renowned Israeli-Persian Singer Fusing Modern Music with Her Persian Roots
Lakha Khan: Sufi Master of the Sindi Sarangi, a 17-String Indian Violin
Lakha Khan is a living legend and the undisputed master of the sindhi sarangi and a National award winner and for his contribution to Rajasthani folk music.
Širom: Slovenian Trio Manifest Imagined Folk Music to Create Synergy with Natural World
ŠIROM is a Slovenian acoustic folk trance drone avant-garde experimental band. The music is tied to the natural world with an aspiration to connect the listener to the natural environment.
Chris Eckman: Producer & Co-Founder of Influential Global Label, Glitterbeat Records
From Seattle to Slovenia with Global Music on his mind. Chris is the Co-Founder of Glitterbeat records. The label has been responsible for releasing some of the best Global music of the decade. His work as a producer and musician is also legendary.
Samir LanGus: Gnawa Healing & Trance Music from Agadir, Morocco.
Samir Langus was born and raised in the city of Agadir, Morocco and learned Gnawa from the old masters of Morocco. Gnawa is the southern Moroccan trance music with roots in pre-islamic animist traditions. Samir Langus’ NY band uses traditional instrumentation such as the lute-like Sintir and the large castanet-type Krakebs to accompany its ancient chants, but his approach is resolutely innovative (his first band was called Innov Gnawa). It is an hypnotic, take on this ecstatic, trance-inducing tradition that has enthralled and inspired generations of musicians from around the world.
Farah Siraj: Healing Arabic & Flamenco Music
Farah Siraj balances a career that spans the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Farah has performed at some of the world's most prestigious platforms, including the United Nations, Nobel Prize Hall, the World Economic Forum, The John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC, & Lincoln Center in New York. Farah represents Jordan annually on United Nations World Peace Day.