September 2018 Chart

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twmc11. Samba Touré  
Wande
Glitterbeat (5↑)

2. Ammar 808 – Maghreb United – Glitterbeat (1↓)
3. Fatoumata Diawara – Fenfo – Montuno / Shanachie / Wagram (2↓)
4. Anandi Bhattacharya – Joys Abound – Riverboat / World Music Network (13↑)
5. SANS – Kulku – Cloud Valley (-↑)
6. The Turbans – The Turbans – Six Degrees (6=)
7. Angelique Kidjo – Remain in Light – Kravenworks (16↑)
8. Vigüela – A Tiempo Real – ARC Music (-↑)
9. Chancha Vía Circuito – Bienaventuranza – Wonderwheel (22↑)
10. Hermeto Pascoal – Hermeto Pascoal e sua Visão Original do Forró – Scubidu (8↓)

11. Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita – Soar – Bendigedig (4↓)
12. Red Baraat – Sound the People – Rhyme & Reason (-↑)
13. Bombino – Deran – Partisan (9↓)
14. Toko Telo – Diavola – Anio (7↓)
15. Amsterdam Klezmer Band & Söndörgő – Szikra – Vetnasj (12↓)
16. Shadi Fathi & Bijan Chemirani – Delâshena – Buda Musique (10↓)
17. Eliades Ochoa & Alejandro Almenares – Dos Gigantes de la Música Cubana – Tumi (26↑)
18. Arat Kilo, Mamani Keïta, Mike Ladd – Visions of Selam – Accords Croisés (28↑)
19. Yossi Fine & Ben Aylon – Blue Desert – Blue Desert (32↑)
20. Grupo Mono Blanco – ¡Fandango! Sones Jarochos de Veracruz – Smithsonian Folkways (40↑)

21. Baul Meets Saz – Namaz – Seyir Muzik (36↑)
22. Dobet Gnahoré – Miziki – LA Café (3↓)
23. Marta Gómez – La Alegría y el Canto – Aluna (25↑)
24. Monsieur Doumani – Angathin – Monsieur Doumani (11↓)
25. Nancy Vieira – Manhã Florida – Lusafrica (16↓)
26. Cemîl Qoçgîrî & Manuel Lohnes – Bêdawîtî – Ahenk Müzik (27↑)
27. Riccardo Tesi & Banditaliana – Argento – Visage (33↑)
28. Mehdi Rostami & Adib Rostami – Melodic Circles – ARC Music (-↑)
29. Opium Moon – Opium Moon – Be Why Music (-↑)
30. Koum Tara – Koum Tara – Odradek (17↓)

31. Enza Pagliara & Dario Muci – Marea – Nauna Cantieri Musicali (21↓)
32. Invisible System – Bamako Sessions – Riverboat / World Music Network (14↓)
33. Solju – Ođđa Áigodat – Bafe’s Factory (20↓)
34. Sväng – Sväng Plays Tango – Galileo Music (35↑)
35. Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra – Avo Kanto – Satélite K (19↓)
36. Mercedes Peón – Déixaas – Mercedes Peón / Altafonte (24↓)
37. V.A. – Listen All Around: The Golden Age of Central & East African Music – Dust-to-Digital (23↓)
38. Vingefang – Tidens Ekko – GO’ Danish Folk (29↓)
39. Markus & Shahzad – Tumba ! – Dionysiac Tour (-↑)
40. Don Kipper – Seven Sisters – Riverboat / World Music Network (31↓)

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Current members of the TWMC panel: Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES), Ángel Romero (US), Araceli Tzigane (ES), Seth Jordan (AU), Tony Hillier (AU), Charlie Crooijmans (NL), Nigel Wood (IE), Dore Stein (US), Roger Holdsworth (AU), Madan Rao (IN), Gil Medovoy (US), Chris Heim (US), Ciro De Rosa (IT), Scott Stevens (US), Hendrick T S Foh (MY), Cliff Furnald (US), Rob Weisberg (US), Toni Polo (FR/ES), Nicolás Falcoff (AR), Masakazu Kitanaka (JP), Jordi Demésenllà (ES), Rafael Mieses (DO/US), Luís Rei (PT), Jean Trouillet (DE), Evangeline Kim (US), Willi Klopottek (LU/DE), Betto Arcos (MX/US), Thorsten Bednarz (DE), Alejandro López (ES), Jon Kertzer (US), Ken Stowar (CA), Jiří Moravčík (CZ), Mu Qian (CN), Carlos Ferreira (PT), Anna Rzhevina (RU), Gil Rouvio (IL), Bouna Ndiaye (SN), Kutay Derin Kuğay (TR), Robert Gregor (SK), Ponxo Taifa Ángeles (MX), Yatrika Shah-Rais (IR/US), Armen Manukyan (AM), Rolf Beydemüller (DE), François Bensignor (FR), Cecilia Aguirre (AR/DE), Eleni Ziliaskopoulou (GR), Marija Vitas (RS), Jaïr Tchong (NL), Enrique Blanc (MX), Tiago Lucas Garcia (BR), Zekeriya S. Şen (TR), Benjamín Muñiz (PR), Daryana Antipova (RU), Mika Kauhanen (FI), Luisa Piñeros (CO), Toni Pennacchia (US), Husniddin Ato (UZ), Sergey Maiboroda (KZ), Chen Hanzi (CN).

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Lowell Folk Festival

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Festival’s name: Lowell Folk Festival

Country: United States

Location: Lowell, Massachusetts

Start date: 27/07/2018

End date: 29/07/2018

Comments:
The Lowell Folk Festival is the largest FREE folk festival in the northeast. Downtown Lowell transforms into an all inclusive festival for three days, featuring five musical stages that showcase highly curated traditional music, representing cultures from around the world. There are sunny and shaded stages, and there will be smiling faces all around. With a Family Activities Area, Crafts Demonstrations, savory ethnic foods, and so much more, everyone enjoys it “their way”.

August 2018 Chart

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twmc11. Ammar 808  
Maghreb United
Glitterbeat (13↑)

2. Fatoumata Diawara – Fenfo – Montuno / Shanachie / Wagram (1↓)
3. Dobet Gnahoré – Miziki – LA Café (3=)
4. Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita – Soar – Bendigedig (2↓)
5. Samba Touré – Wande – Glitterbeat (5=)
6. The Turbans – The Turbans – Six Degrees (4↓)
7. Toko Telo – Diavola – Anio (7=)
8. Hermeto Pascoal – Hermeto Pascoal e sua Visão Original do Forró – Scubidu (39↑)
9. Bombino – Deran – Partisan (12↑)
10. Shadi Fathi & Bijan Chemirani – Delâshena – Buda Musique (6↓)

11. Monsieur Doumani – Angathin – Monsieur Doumani (11=)
12. Amsterdam Klezmer Band & Söndörgő – Szikra – Vetnasj (15↑)
13. Anandi Bhattacharya – Joys Abound – Riverboat / World Music Network (18↑)
14. Invisible System – Bamako Sessions – Riverboat / World Music Network (20↑)
15. Rahim AlHaj Trio – One Sky – Smithsonian Folkways (17↑)
16. Nancy Vieira – Manhã Florida – Lusafrica (9↓)
17. Koum Tara – Koum Tara – Odradek (8↓)
18. Angelique Kidjo – Remain in Light – Kravenworks (24↑)
19. Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra – Avo Kanto – Satélite K (-)
20. Solju – Ođđa Áigodat – Bafe’s Factory (14↓)

21. Enza Pagliara & Dario Muci – Marea – Nauna Cantieri Musicali (-)
22. Chancha Vía Circuito – Bienaventuranza – Wonderwheel (-)
23. V.A. – Listen All Around: The Golden Age of Central & East African Music – Dust-to-Digital (36↑)
24. Mercedes Peón – Déixaas – Mercedes Peón / Altafonte (22↓)
25. Marta Gómez – La Alegría y el Canto – Aluna (-)
26. Eliades Ochoa & Alejandro Almenares – Dos Gigantes de la Música Cubana – Tumi (-)
27. Cemîl Qoçgîrî & Manuel Lohnes – Bêdawîtî – Ahenk Müzik (-)
28. Arat Kilo, Mamani Keïta, Mike Ladd – Visions of Selam – Accords Croisés (16↓)
29. Vingefang – Tidens Ekko – GO’ Danish Folk (-)
30. Red Baraat – Sound the People – Rhyme & Reason (-)

31. Don Kipper – Seven Sisters – Riverboat / World Music Network (21↓)
32. Yossi Fine & Ben Aylon – Blue Desert – Blue Desert (-)
33. Riccardo Tesi & Banditaliana – Argento – Visage (-)
34. RAM – August 1791 – Willibelle (-)
35. Sväng – Sväng Plays Tango – Galileo Music (-)
36. Baul Meets Saz – Namaz – Seyir Muzik (-)
37. Agricantus – Akoustikòs Vol. 1 – CNI (31↓)
38. Hugh Masekela – Masekela 66-76 – Wrasse (27↓)
39. Malagasy Guitar Masters – Volo Hazo – Buda Musique (25↓)
40. Grupo Mono Blanco – ¡Fandango! Sones Jarochos de Veracruz – Smithsonian Folkways (29↓)

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Current members of the TWMC panel: Araceli Tzigane (ES), Juan Antonio Vázquez (ES), Ángel Romero (US), Seth Jordan (AU), Tony Hillier (AU), Charlie Crooijmans (NL), Nigel Wood (IE), Dore Stein (US), Roger Holdsworth (AU), Madan Rao (IN), Gil Medovoy (US), Chris Heim (US), Ciro De Rosa (IT), Scott Stevens (US), Hendrick T S Foh (MY), Cliff Furnald (US), Rob Weisberg (US), Toni Polo (FR/ES), Nicolás Falcoff (AR), Masakazu Kitanaka (JP), Jordi Demésenllà (ES), Rafael Mieses (DO/US), Luís Rei (PT), Jean Trouillet (DE), Evangeline Kim (US), Willi Klopottek (LU/DE), Betto Arcos (MX/US), Thorsten Bednarz (DE), Alejandro López (ES), Jon Kertzer (US), Ken Stowar (CA), Jiří Moravčík (CZ), Mu Qian (CN), Carlos Ferreira (PT), Anna Rzhevina (RU), Gil Rouvio (IL), Bouna Ndiaye (SN), Kutay Derin Kuğay (TR), Robert Gregor (SK), Ponxo Taifa Ángeles (MX), Yatrika Shah-Rais (IR/US), Armen Manukyan (AM), Rolf Beydemüller (DE), François Bensignor (FR), Cecilia Aguirre (AR/DE), Eleni Ziliaskopoulou (GR), Marija Vitas (RS), Jaïr Tchong (NL), Enrique Blanc (MX), Tiago Lucas Garcia (BR), Zekeriya S. Şen (TR), Benjamín Muñiz (PR), Daryana Antipova (RU), Mika Kauhanen (FI), Luisa Piñeros (CO), Toni Pennacchia (US), Husniddin Ato (UZ), Sergey Maiboroda (KZ).

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Bayimba International Festival of the Arts

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Festival’s name: Bayimba International Festival of the arts

Website: https://bayimbafestival.com/

Country: Uganda

Location: Lunkulu Island, Mukono

Start date: 2018-08-02

End date: 2018-08-05

Comments:
The Bayimba International Festival of the Arts has developed into a major multi-arts festival with varied and qualitative programming, presenting exciting, innovative and creative ideas. It is eagerly awaited by locals while artists and visitors from abroad pour into Uganda to take advantage of the exciting artistic experience. With a vibrant and an unparalleled feast of music, dance, theatre, film, and visual arts from renowned and upcoming artists from around the world. The festival has truly become a highlight on Uganda’s social and cultural calendar and is also gradually developing into an important (East) African destination festival.

FMM Sines

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Festival’s name: FMM Sines – Festival Músicas do Mundo

Website: http://www.fmmsines.pt

Country: Portugal

Location: Sines, Portugal

Start date: 19 July 2018

End date: 28 July 2018

About: FMM Sines – Festival Músicas do Mundo is a music festival held every July in the municipality of Sines on the Alentejo coast in Portugal. Organised by the Sines City Council, it is a cultural public service festival. Adopting “Music with a spirit of adventure” as a motto, the festival is presented in historic and urban scenarios of great beauty and authenticity, close to a coastline with protected landscape.

Colours of Ostrava

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Festival’s name: Colours of Ostrava

Website: https://www.colours.cz/

Country: Czech Republic

Location: Ostrava

Start date: 2018-07-16

End date: 2018-07-21

About:
The Colour of Ostrava festival includes 3 events:
1. Czech music Crossroads conference + showcase concerts (running in the first 2 days) – 14 bands from 4 countries performing,
2. The main festival running in the following 4 days
3. Melting pot and Music Alarm, the discussions with musicians, artists and public figures running as the daytime supplement to the main festival

World Music Festival Bratislava

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Festival’s name: World Music Festival Bratislava

Website: http://worldmusicfestival.sk/en/homepage/

Country: Slovakia

Location: Bratislava

Dates 2018: 13 – 16 Sep

About:
World Music Festival Bratislava is a multi-genre festival with focus on world music taking place around the old town heart of Slovakia’s capital Bratislava. In a region that has long been Europe’s cultural crossroads. The festival forms a meeting point between East and West. The programme consists of concerts, showcases, conference, workshops, presentations about the traditional culture of the region, children’s programme and public discussions. It features leading musicians and bands from Slovakia and beyond. It provides a window on world music’s context in the country and its relationship to Slovakia’s rich traditional musics.

Cordas World Music Festival

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Festival’s name: Cordas World Music Festival

Website: http://www.festivalcordas.com

Country: Portugal

Location: Madalena

Dates 2018: 7 – 16 Sep

About:
Founded in 2016, Cordas World Music Festival is now working to build the third season in 2018. www.festivalcordas.com
Pico island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean welcomes string-music instruments and artists from around the world in venues that range from a garden, a cave, a vulcanic crater, natural pools, dragon-tree sanctuary, centre square stage and the new contemporary auditorium in the town of Madalena.
Artists that have been at Cordas include…
International: Tcheka (Cape Verde), Lu Yanan (China), Eran Zamir (Israel), Michel William (Mozambique), Maninho (Brazil), Anjos Teixeira (Germany), Marco del Castillo (Canary Islands), Beselch Rodriguez (Canary Islands), Pieter Adriaans

Sukiyaki Meets The World Festival

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Festival’s name: Sukiyaki Meets The World Festival

Website: www.sukiyakifes.jp

Country: Japan

Location: Nanto-city, Toyama prefecture

Dates 2018: 23 Aug – 2 Sep

About:
The Sukiyaki Meets The World takes place in Nanto-city (Hokuriku region, Japan) every year since 1991. It is entirely organized by local citizens (250 persons). With 4 stages and 12,000 visitors every year, it is the oldest and biggest event in Japan completely dedicated to Word Music. With more than 150 workshop, residence program, all the generations of the city are involved, throughout the year. The line-up includes confirmed groups and newcomers (http://sukiyakifes.jp/history/), supported by the national medias and the main labels , it is established as a major actor of diffusion in the country. It includes satellite edition in Tokyo, Nagoya and Okinawa since 2011.