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March-April 2018 March-April 2018 March-April 2018 March 23-24 2018 Africa Cape Town International Jazz Festival Cape Town, South Africa www.capetownjazzfest.com National Folk Festival Canberra, Australia Discover roots music in Australia’s capital city This celebration of folk music suitably started life as a travelling event, moving from city to city for 24 years. It soon set up permanently in Canberra in 1992. Organised by the March 29-April 2 2018 Australasia National Folk Festival Canberra, Australia Discover roots music in Australia’s capital city This celebration of folk music suitably started life as a travelling event, moving from city to city for 24 years. It soon set up permanently in Canberra in 1992. Organised by the Australian Folk Trust, its programme celebrates both indigenous Australian music, with Joe Geia and Gina Williams scheduled for 2018, and international names, including Elephant Sessions and Breabach. www.folkfestival.org.au April 2018, dates tbc Africa Journées Musicales de Carthage Tunis, Tunisia www.jmc.tn April 12-15 2018 Americas French Quarter Festival New Orleans, Louisiana, US www.fqfi.org April 13-15 2018 Americas Pure Grenada Music Festival Port Louis, Grenada grenadamusicfestival.com Festival International de Louisiane ©Paul Kieu April 14-21 2018 Africa Kriol Jazz Festival Praia, Cape Verde Transatlantic vibrations The Cape Verdean archipelago is home to morna music, outstanding coastlines and a fervent Creole culture. Its largest island, Santiago, hosts this yearly jazz festival that both looks outwards across the Atlantic to the American classical form, while also accommodating for local artistry and sounds from the African continent. Nigerian musician Adé Bantu, and Santiago’s very own Mário Lúcio have already been confirmed for this year. This tenth anniversary edition will pay tribute to two classic Cape Verdean groups: Os Tubarões (The Sharks) & funaná revivalists Bulimundo. www.krioljazzfestival.com 04 SONGLINES › INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL GUIDE 2018-19 WWW.SONGLINES.CO.UK

TO FILL April 19-23 2018 Middle East Deli Sesler Ankara, Turkey www.deliseslerfest.com April 22-29 2018 Americas Reggae Fest Benny Hall, Saint Peter, Barbados www.thebarbados reggaefestival.com WWW.SONGLINES.CO.UK April 2018 April 23-28 2018 April 23-28 2018 Europe Mazurkas of the World Festival Warsaw, Poland www.festivalmazurki.pl/en April 25-29 2018 Americas Festival International de Louisiane Lafayette, Louisiana, US Acadian artistry Cajun culture abounds at Festival Internatinoal de Louisiane, which focuses upon the sounds of south Louisiana and the Francophone diaspora. Olfactory and gastronomic awe, provided by its dedicated artisan food market, street performers and visual arts add to the multi-sensory affair that offers a real taste of the American South. This year’s international line-up will include the Gambian kora player Sona Jobarteh and Congolese rhythms from Jupiter & Okwess. festivalinternational.org April 26-29 2018 Americas MerleFest Wilkesboro, North Carolina, US www.merlefest.org April 26-30 2018 Europe Katowice Jazzart Festival Katowice, Poland www.jazzartfestival.eu April 26-30 2018 Africa Saint-Louis Jazz Festival Saint-Louis, Senegal www.saintlouisjazz.org SPOTLIGHT ON... Druga Godba, see p7 Benigar Bogdan Programme director Describe your festival in three words: Unique, charming, moving. What is your festival’s USP? A combination of very modest priced day and festival passes with free public transport within the city (Ljubljana) and between the cities (Ljubljana-Piran). What makes a good programme? An inventive combination of new and old, global and local, established and alternative, progressive and traditional, sunny and dark, serious and fun, seating and dancing and gender-balanced. Favourite festival memory? Accompanying the 15-piece Romanian group Taraf de Haïdouks at Ljubljana train station with hundreds of kilos of luggage. They were on a European tour by bus and needed to be transferred to a late-running train from Venice to Budapest and Timisoara at 3am. Clearly one of the funniest moments in my life. SONGLINES › INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL GUIDE 2018-19 05

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April 19-23 2018 Middle East Deli Sesler Ankara, Turkey www.deliseslerfest.com

April 22-29 2018 Americas Reggae Fest Benny Hall, Saint Peter, Barbados www.thebarbados reggaefestival.com

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April 23-28 2018

April 23-28 2018 Europe Mazurkas of the World Festival Warsaw, Poland www.festivalmazurki.pl/en

April 25-29 2018 Americas Festival International de Louisiane Lafayette, Louisiana, US Acadian artistry Cajun culture abounds at Festival Internatinoal de Louisiane, which focuses upon the sounds of south Louisiana and the Francophone diaspora. Olfactory and gastronomic awe, provided by its dedicated artisan food market, street performers and visual arts add to the multi-sensory affair that offers a real taste of the American South. This year’s international line-up will include the Gambian kora player Sona Jobarteh and Congolese rhythms from Jupiter & Okwess. festivalinternational.org

April 26-29 2018 Americas MerleFest Wilkesboro, North Carolina, US www.merlefest.org

April 26-30 2018 Europe Katowice Jazzart Festival Katowice, Poland www.jazzartfestival.eu

April 26-30 2018 Africa Saint-Louis Jazz Festival Saint-Louis, Senegal www.saintlouisjazz.org

SPOTLIGHT ON... Druga Godba, see p7

Benigar Bogdan Programme director Describe your festival in three words: Unique, charming, moving.

What is your festival’s USP? A combination of very modest priced day and festival passes with free public transport within the city (Ljubljana) and between the cities (Ljubljana-Piran).

What makes a good programme? An inventive combination of new and old, global and local, established and alternative, progressive and traditional, sunny and dark, serious and fun, seating and dancing and gender-balanced.

Favourite festival memory? Accompanying the 15-piece Romanian group Taraf de Haïdouks at Ljubljana train station with hundreds of kilos of luggage. They were on a European tour by bus and needed to be transferred to a late-running train from Venice to Budapest and Timisoara at 3am. Clearly one of the funniest moments in my life.

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