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Gibraltar World Music Festival
The Gibraltar World Music Festival (GWMF) is an annual music festival held in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The event has a different theme every year, past themes have been Sephardic, Asia minor, China and India, Maghreb, Morocco, Lusophone Culture and Afreeka. In 2016, the theme was the Portuguese language (Lusophone) year and called Obrigado, meaning thank you in Portuguese, with Artists from Portugal, Brazil and Cape Verde. Tickets for the event were sold at £30 (General Public) & £25 (Senior Citizens and Students) for the event in St. Michael's Cave. In 2017 the theme will be Africa and called Uprising. Music Concert Line ups * 2012: SEPHARDIC DIVAS - Sarah Aroeste, OFIR, Françoise Atlan, Mor Karbasi * 2013: PASSAGE TO ASIA - En Chordais, The Sweet Canary Ensemble, Mark Eliyahu, Amir Shahzad, Yasmin Levy * 2014: CHINDIA - Nathan Conroy, Itamar Doari, Nitin Sawhney, Mieko Miyazaki, Guo Gan * 2015: KHAMSA - Dhafer Youssef, David Morales, Jazz Oil, Abi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Atlan
Françoise Atlan ( in Hebrew, in Arabic) is a French singer and ethnomusicologist, born in a Sephardic Jewish family in Narbonne, France on 27 July 1964. Her father was a lawyer and native of Béjaïa, Algeria, and her mother was a pianist and a lyrical singer. on 30 March, she was one of three performers who sang Muslim, Christian and Jewish religious songs in unison accompanied by the Moroccan Philharmonic Orchestra during Pope Francis visit to the Shereefian Kingdom. In July 2018, She acquired Moroccan citizenship by royal decree published in the Moroccan official bulletin of 2 May. Musical education Françoise Atlan started to learn piano with her mother at the age of six. In 1984, she finished her musical education at the Saint-Étienne and Aix-en-Provence conservatories, obtaining a degree in piano (gold medal) and chamber (silver medal). Later, she learned musicology at Aix-Marseille University where she passed the Agrégation competitive examination for teachers. Then s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gibraltar World Music Festival Sephardic Divas
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