F E S T I V A L S : Canada, Ireland, Turkey, Spain, Bosnia, USA, producer : Cobie Ivens
I. Festival Mondial Des Cultures Drummondville. (01:00:14 min)
A collection of traditional music from around the world, recorded in 1997, 98, and 99. The World Folklore Festival was a folk dance festival held each summer in early July at Woodyatt Park in Drummondville, a city in the Centre-du-Québec region. The event was founded in 1982, after members of the folk ensemble Mackinaw attended a similar festival in Dijon, France. During the eleven-day celebration, dozens of renowned artists and folk ensembles from around the world participated in the event, which in recent years has attracted an average of more than 300,000 visitors per year. The last festival was held in the summer of 2017, after which it ceased to exist.
CD. Festival Mondial Des Cultures Drummondville : 1997-1999. LABEL: Arc Music (2000), code: EUCD 1579. VIDEO
II. Irish Folk Festival – Live in 1974. (59:12 min)
Het eerste Ierse folkfestival bracht Keltische muziek naar Europa. Aangemoedigd door de populariteit van de Ierse Furey Family in Duitse pubs, besloten de organisatoren de muziek naar een veel groter publiek te brengen in Duitsland. De resultaten zijn live vastgelegd op dit historisch live opgenomen album: Irish Folk Festival uit 1974.
CD. Irish Folk Festival- Live in 1974. LABEL: Bell Records (1994), code: BLR 86601. VIDEO
III. Bazaar Istanbul. (57:08 min)
This is a collection of traditional Turkish music, a combination of instrumentals and songs. It gives the right atmosphere of Middle Eastern music, songs and instruments that reflects a rich and complex history. The music is traditional, with folk dances and gypsy melodies. The album is varied with songs and instrumentals, and the different musical groups and regional styles from the Aegean, Black Sea and Anatolian highlands keep our ears sharp. It sounds exactly like in a bazaar in Istanbul.
CD. Bazaar : Istanbul. LABEL: ARC Music (2004), code: EUCD 1884.
IV. Festival internacional de tango Granada 1994. (59:36 min)
This tango festival has been held in Granada since 1988, under the motto and is the oldest tango festival in Europe. The repertoire on this album is broad and is performed by 15 artists from Central and South America. Tango in the form as we know it originated at the end of the nineteenth century in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires and to a lesser extent in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. The sensual dance is also enthusiastically received in Europe, with Paris as its center. Tango singer Carlos Gardel grows into a world star. In the second half of the twentieth century, Astor Piazolla is the most famous tango artist.
CD. Festival internacional de tango Granada 1994. LABEL: BBG (1996), code: 9427 CD. VIDEO
V. Emir Kusturica & No Smoking Orchestra. (01:04:31 min)
No Smoking Orchestra is a Bosnian rock group founded by Nele Karajlić in Sarajevo in the 1980s. Yugoslav filmmaker Emir Kusturica has been a member of the band since 1986, whose name translated into English means “No Smoking”. When war broke out, the group split in two. One group kept the original name and released a few more albums. The others regrouped in Belgrade in 1994 under the English name No Smoking Orchestra.
CD. Unza unza time – Emir Kusturica & No Smoking Orchestra. LABEL: Barclay (2002), code: 5438042. VIDEO
VI. Yerba Buena [US]. (57:45 min)
This is the third album by the New York Latin group Yerba Buena. Latin styles such as cumbia, reggaeton and salsa form the basis of the catchy songs. The songs are alternately covered with a sauce of rap, funk and/or rock. A striking contribution is the contribution of Joe Bataan, a Latin funk star from the seventies who has been unjustly forgotten in recent years. Follow Me is a great record for a warm day and should be consumed as is customary in Spanish Harlem: in the car, with the windows down and the volume knob at eleven. CD. Follow me – Yerba Buena [US]. LABEL: Universal Records (2007), code: WRASS 194. VIDEO
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