CONCERTS
Torres Vedras Theatre (Teatro Cine de Torres Vedras)
Price
€ 5 per concert
€ 20 Access to every paid concert
Buille (Ireland)
27th October » Tuesday » 9.30 P.M.
Buille was formed in 2004 by Armagh born brothers Niall and Caoimhín Vallely along with Paul Meehan and Brian Morrissey as a vehicle to perform a body of new tunes written in a traditional style with contemporary arrangements. The resultant sound was picked up on by Donald Shaw and Vertical Records who immediately offered to produce and release the groups' debut album. "Buille" was released in 2005 to rave reviews and was described in the Irish Times: "Buille is as fresh a breath that's blown through traditional (and roots) circles in a long, long time.
Niall Vallely » concertina
Ed Boyd » flook and guitar
Caoimhín Vallely » piano
PRICE: € 5
MORE INFORMATION AT: www.myspace.com/buille
La Camorra (Argentina)
30th October » Friday » 9.30 P.M.
The La Camorra debuted in 1993 at Café Homero, in Buenos Aires. Since the beginning of its career that the group interprets traditional themes of tango, with It's own arrangements and original songs.
In 1999 the La Camorra were awarded with the second place of the "Chamber Music Competition" in Buenos Aires and since then have expanded their musical style to jazz and to classical. In 16-year career have released five albums, toured stages throughout the world and still writing and performing its own contemporary tango.
Hugo Asrin » contrabass
Nicolás Guerschberg » piano
Luciano Jungman » bandoneon
Jorge Kohan » guitar
Sebastian Prusak » violin
PRICE: € 5
MORE INFORMATION AT:http://www.lacamorra-tango.com.arg
MU (Portugal)
3rd November » Tuesday» 9.30 P.M.
MU is a Portuguese band that began its musical route in 2003. Searching for fusion and experimentation within the traditional music, this group is distinguishing with many music styles. With MU you can travel to several different cultures and traditional/fusion sounds. Its members play various instruments from all over the world. India, Switzerland, Egypt, Brazil, Morocco, Australia, among others, are the regions from where the instruments of MU come from. This instrument diversity brings this group to a travel between a lost world and actuality, which allows it to rescue beautiful sounds from these ancient worlds. Between flying dances, feminine voices and diverse instruments, MU's alive show is a moment of contagious enjoyment, moment where the energy flies throughout the air and rushes the body to dance in a limitless world.
Hugo Osga » bulbul tarang; didgeridoo, flute and percussion
Nuno Encarnação » tabla; derbouca; riq; percussion
Diana Azevedo » violin, voice and dance
Dulce Cruz » accordion
Sara Barbosa » bass
Sergio Calisto » moraharpa; cello and bouzouki
PRICE: € 5
MORE INFORMATION AT:www.myspace.com/muuuuuu or http://www.mu.com.sapo.pt/
GURZUF (Bielorussia)
6th November » Friday » 9.30 P.M.
Gurzuf is a highly unusual and highly successful instrumental band, which plays since 2005. This is a duet of an accordionist Egor Zabelov and drummer Artem Zalesskiy. They are playing... well, if I am allowed to add a bit of personal impression here, I'd characterize this as "imagine if King Crimson were to play the tunes of Philip Glass with an accordion". "Gurzuf's" music is a synthesis of alternative music styles such as punk, hard rock, hip-hop with classical and folk music - highly expressive, challenging kind of tunes.
In under two years musicians have managed to achieve quite a lot: they've composed and recorded a couple of sound tracks for the belarusian puppet theater plays, released a full-length album, achieved a great level of popularity in the neighboring countries - they're now cruising with concerts in Ukraine, Poland and Russia all the time, and even gave few concerts in Paris this September. Their level of professionalism was previously recognized with many awards on Russian and Polish alternative music festivals, and have represented in december 2007 their country at the GBOB competition in London.
Egor Zabelov » accordion
Artem Zalessky » drummer
PRICE: € 5
MORE INFORMATION AT: www.myspace.com/gurzuff
Maria Kalaniemi (Finland)
10th November » Tuesday » 9.30 P.M.
Maria Kalaniemi, a master of free-bass button accordion, is one of Finland's leading contemporary accordionists. Once a member of pioneering groups Niekku and Aldargaz, from the Sibelus Academy Folk Music Department, where she now teaches, her roots are in folk and classical music but her signs and abilities go far beyond existing styles. Technically brilliant as a player, and adept at improvision, she is also very powerful, intuitive and sensitive composer, with pieces that stylistically touch in numerous areas but feature her own personality as the driving force. Melody is the meaning and with Maria, listeners are sure to feel her message deeply.
Maria Kalaniemi » accordion
Olli Varis » guitar
PRICE: € 5
MORE INFORMATION AT: www.myspace.com/mariakalaniemi or http://www.mariakalaniemi.com/
