Sunday, 28th July, 23:00 Gilberto Gil was warmly received by the audience. Womad beats its own record with 38000 Festival Goers through the weekend. Sunday, 28th July, 14:13 A lots to see. For the time being, here it is a quick photo preview. Thursday, 25th July, 20:17 Womad has great highlights this year. One of […]
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Marku Ribas: a farewell
April 7, 2013 
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Marku Ribas was an artist whose work deserved much more attention than it got. Throughout his career, he gave his public the gift and joy of risk taking creativity. The multi-talented and free spirited Ribas, was the artist who officiated the “polirritmia”, a technique of producing sounds with his own body. His performances were […]
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March 6, 2013 0 Comments
The “Meninas de Sinha” is a singing group formed by working class afro-descendent women. They are from the Aglomerado Vera Cruz, a favela in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais. Their age group ranges from 50 to 93. The “Meninas de Sinha” was founded by Valdete da Silva Cordeiro […]
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