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List of groups
Click on the group's name to see details and performance hours and click here to learn more about Terra Madre Sounds
ASIA
1) Bangladesh - Teksoi Krishi Ganer
2) India - Thaiva Makkal-Folk song group Kerala
3) Mongolia - Horse Fiddle Player
EUROPA EST
4) Belorussia - Community of Minsk Musicians
5) Bulgaria - Traditional Musicians from Glogovo Village
6) Georgia - Group of the Community of Kakheti Wine Makers
7) Russia - Raduniza
8) Russia - Group of the Kamchadal Community
9) Russia - Singer from the Tuvi Shepherd Community
10) Russia - Buryat Group of Lake Baikal
EUROPA OCCIDENTALE
11) Cyprus - Michalis Terlikkas and the Mousa Music Ensemble
12) France - Eths Bandolets
13) Ireland - The Gardeners
14) Italy – Coro La Baiolese
15) Italy - Taricata
16) Italy - Associazione Musicisti Calamus
17) Italy - Apori'a
18) Italy - Donne Di Giulianello
19) Italy - Raffaele Pinelli
20) Italy - Gruppo Folkloristico Val Resia
21) Italy - La Malinteisa con monsieur De Rien
22) Italy - Raviole al vin
23) Italy - Mamuthone
24) Italy - Bandakadabra
26) Italy - Calabria Marasà
27) Italy - Encelado Superbo
28) Italy - Ortoincondotta
29) Italy - San Salvario Sound Station
30) Italy – Pequeñas Huellas
31) Norway - Lajla Storli & John Ole Morken
32) Scotland - Croiterian Chamas Chros
33) Switzerland – Verbanus duo
34) Switzerland - Marsina Duo
35) Spain - Lluis El Sifoner
MIDDLE EAST
36) Turkey - Behcet Gulas
AFRICA
37) Cameroon - Producers from the Highlands Convivium
38) Cape Verde - Era Uma Vez Un Boi
39) Ethiopia - Zala Kamba
40) Ethiopia - Sileshi Demissie
41) Senegal - Traditional Dionwar Band
42) Kenya - Kailer Women’s Group from Baringo
NORTH AMERICA
43) United States - Checkered Past
44) United States - Onion Creek and Barn Dance
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
45) Guatemala – Ko Konob (Nuestro pueblo)
46) Jamaica - Iion Station
47) Cuba – Duo Humberto y Daniel
48) Brazil - Encantadeiras
50) Brazil - Cardoso Domingos Claudio and Alves da Silva Mendes Renan Antônio
51) Brazil - Agostinho Valdir José
The Groups in Detail
Fifty performances a day on five stages inside Lingotto Fiere and the Oval, named after 5 important etnomusicologists: Lomax, Carpitella, De Martino, Favara e Leydi.
ASIA
1) Bangladesh – Teksoi Krishi Ganer
Headed by a Terra Madre community leader, this band performs locally at celebrations and religious festivities. Their repertoire consists of traditional music and lalong, a kind of song with a pleasantly repetitive harmony. The four members play only string instruments, the ektara, dotara, mondira and prem juri.
friday, 11:40, Stage Leydi, pavilion 3
saturday, 11:40, Stage Leydi, pavilion 3
sunday, 14:00, Stage Leydi, pavilion 3
2) India – Thaiva Makkal-Folk song group Kerala
The group’s ethno-musical philosophy is based on the protection and study of traditions and their transmission to new generations. Playing music based on the art and forms of indigenous folklore, the group’s key instrument is a 60 cm high typical drum called a chenda.
friday, 16:00, Stage Leydi, pavilion 3
saturday, 16:00, Stage Leydi, pavilion 3
3) Mongolia – Horse Fiddle Player
A shepherd will play this traditional Mongolian violin, used primarily during their significant religious ceremonies. Indicating the centrality of the horse in Mongolian culture, an equine head has been carved on the end of the instrument.
friday, 14:00, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
saturday, 11:40, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
EASTERN EUROPE
4) Belorussia – Community of Minsk Musicians
University students of ethnography and Belorussian musical culture revisit instruments (harmonicas, ocarinas and the duda, a kind of bagpipe) and traditions from their country’s folklore.
friday:, 15:15, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
saturday, 15:00, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
sunday, 11:00, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
5) Bulgaria – Traditional Musicians from Glogovo Village
This group will sing and play a special Bulgarian string instrument called "gadulka" and a traditional big drum, called "tupan"while performing traditional music from the Tetevan region.
friday h.15:50, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
saturday h.15:40, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
6) Georgia – Group of the Community of Kakheti Wine Makers
This group’s songs, often performed in conjunction with a circular dance, are sung by three voices. Their ancient musical tradition has been declared part of the world’s intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO. Using archaic and mysterious phonemes, the songs range through different rhythmical connotations. Unlike in western European tradition, the Georgian folk music scale is based on the fifth rather than the octave, leaving room for improvisation.
friday, 11:00, Stage Leydi, pavilion 3
saturday, 11:00, Stage Leydi, pavilion 3
sunday, 11:20, Stage Leydi, pavilion 3
7) Russia – Raduniza
The band members actively collect, study and promote the traditional music of the Vladimir region. Between 1999 and 2007 they visited various villages around the area with the aim of identifying the best performers of dance, song and ceremonial rites. Based on their experiences, the collected material has been included in the group’s creative activities and incorporated into their performances.
The five musicians play the harmonica, balalaika, Vladimir bagpipes and two kinds of flute similar to pan-pipes.
friday, 11:40, Stage Lomax, external Oval
saturday, 11:40, Stage Lomax, external Oval
8) Russia – Group of the Kamchadal Community
The style of this singing and dancing duo closely follows ancient shamanist rituals, and their singing comes from the throat rather than the diaphragm. The dances and songs performed are linked to the traditions of Kamchatka’s indigenous people and celebrate the spirituality of Siberian nature.
Friday, 14:40, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
Saturday, 14:20, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
9) Russia – Singer from the Tuvi Shepherd Community
A shepherd who practices the art of guttural singing, considered the oldest and most consistent form of the Tuva tradition.
friday, 11:00, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
saturday, 11:00, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
10) Russia – Buryat Group of Lake Baikal
The band represents the Baikal Buryat Center for Indigenous Culture and will perform the zookhei ceremony, staging traditional songs dedicated to both animals and food producers. They will also perform the traditional circular ekhor dance, in which all elements come together to express thanks to mother earth, food and crops. The dance is performed clockwise in the direction of the sun, with pauses alternating with sudden accelerations. Accompaniment comes from the traditional stringed instruments known as khur and yatagaa. The band members will wear traditional dress - certain elements of which identify each performer with their clan.
friday, 14:35 Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
saturday, 14:35 Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
sunday, 13:40 Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
WESTERN EUROPE
11) Cyprus – Michalis Terlikkas and the Mousa Music Ensemble
Traditional Cypriot music, with violin, lute, guitar, percussion and voice.
friday, 14:00, Stage Leydi, pavilion 3
saturday, 14:00, Stage Leydi, pavilion 3
12) France – Eths Bandolets
The group was founded in 1977, in the heart of the Bigorre. They perform traditional songs from the Pyrenees during folk festivals and rugby matches. Their name means “bandits.”
friday , 15:20, Stage Leydi, pavilion 3
saturday, 14:00, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
13) Ireland – The Gardeners
Ireland is the only country in the world with a musical instrument – the harp – as its national symbol. The Gardeners come from Ballycotton, in the south of the country. Music has always played a central role in their communities, and the band is inspired by the celebrated Irish musical traditions, updated using metallic flutes, violins, Irish drums, guitar and bass.
friday, 15:10, Stage Lomax, external Oval
saturday, 11:00, Stage Lomax, external Oval
sunday, 11:20, Stage Lomax, external Oval
14) Italy – La Baiolese Choir
The Bajo Dora choir was initiated in October 1966 thanks to the drive of Amerigo Vigliermo, who remains the group’s leader today. Over the past forty years the choir has been dedicated to researching and gathering oral traditions of people from the area surrounding Ivrea in Piedmont. These will be brought to life in their shows, and are being catalogued by the Ethnology Center of Canaversano, founded in 1975.
sunday, 14:50 Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
15) Italy – Taricata
Taricata means “root” in dialect, and this group from San Vito dei Normanni in Puglia has become a true bastion of Salento culture. The group, which includes musicians from three generations, was founded in 1977 and seeks out and performs folk music and songs from the Salento area and the rest of Puglia, incorporating influences from new instruments, techniques and arrangements.
friday, 16:20, Stage Lomax, external Oval
saturday, 15:15, Stage Lomax, external Oval
sunday, 11:20, Stage Lomax, external Oval
16) – Italy – Associazione Musicisti Calamus
Traditional ethnic music from Frusinate and Ciociaria in the central region of Lazio. The group – composed of seven musicians playing the zampogna (a kind of bagpipe), accordion, ciaramella (a woodwind), ocarina, double bass, percussion and flutes – has a repertoire that ranges from the music and songs of popular tradition to their own compositions. They perform their music at parties and other festivities.
friday, 17:40, Stage Lomax, external Oval
saturday, 17:40, Stage Lomax, external Oval
sunday, 16:10, Stage Lomax, external Oval
17) Italy – Apori’a
The group is made up of five poets who improvise, singing about varied, dueling themes chosen by the public. Their compositions are in hendecasyllabic octaves rhyming ABABABCC. The poet who responds must finish the first verse with the last syllable of the last verse of the poet who preceded him. This artistic form is common throughout the central Apennines, and is never accompanied by music. Up until the 1970s, the themes were derived from epic, chivalric literature and mythology, but these are now disappearing to make way for more topical subjects.
friday, 17:20, Stage Leydi, pavilion 3
saturday, 17:20, Stage Leydi, pavilion 3
18) Italy – Donne Di Giulianello
Songs for multiple singers or solos, for female voices only, passed down orally from mother to daughter while working in the fields. There is no fixed group of performers, and the line-up varies depending on family or work commitments. All the members actively work on farms or are retired, except for two, who after having worked in the fields for over 30 years, now sell wood-oven baked bread. Their repertoire includes working songs, paraliturgical songs linked to popular religious expression (songs about the passion of Christ or of thanksgiving), festive songs (stornelli ciociari), wedding songs (toasts, songs for the bride) and “a poeta” (the same melodic and metric formula used by poets to recount happy or sad love stories in ottava rima).
friday, 17:05, Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
saturday , 17:35, Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
19) Italy – Raffaele Pinelli
When still a child, Raffaele discovered the accordion and was introduced to the world of folk music. He began his artistic activities in collaboration with Ambrogio Sparagna at the age of 15, and currently participates in numerous projects, performing in piazzas, theaters, clubs and on television. He has a degree in musicology and has been a member of the Orchestra Popolare delle Notti della Taranta. Currently a musical consultant and in charge of events for Erasmo Treglia’s Finisterre label, he has collaborated with celebrated Italian musicians such as Franco Battiato, Simone Cristiccchi, Carmen Consoli, Lucio Dalla, Piero Pelù, Givanna Marini, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti and many more.
As well as performing at the “Sounds of Terra Madre” he is also the project’s coordinator.
20) Italy – Gruppo Folkloristico Val Resia
Their music and dances have a long history, and probably reached the Val Resia in Friuli-Venezia with the first settlements of the Resian community in the forth century. The band consists of just two instruments, the violin (citira) and the violoncello (bukula), while the beating of feet that accompanies all the music is the essential “third instrument” which keeps the rhythm.
friday, 11:40, De Martino, pavilion 2
21) Italy – La Malinteisa con Monsieur De Rien
The band performs ancient dances and music from the Occitan valleys, using gestures, the figures of the dancers and the sounds of ancient instruments to express the joy of coming together during agricultural, pastoral festivals: the reawakening of the bear, the fair of the Sambucana sheep, the bonfire of San Giovanni, the feast of the rye…
saturday, 16:35, Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
sunday, 16:20, Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
22) Italy – Raviole al vin
Luigi Barroero’s accordion playing and singing underpins the band’s music, while Carla provides the only female voice. Barroero, passionately in love with his native Langhe in the Piedmont region, is also the composer and writer of pieces whose tone varies from deeply emotional to mocking. Always present at Slow Food events that feature music, they are also “honorary professors” of singing tradition at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo.
friday, 18:45, Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
saturday, 19:25, Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
23) Italy – Mamuthones
With black wooden masks on their faces, heads covered with dark cloth, black sheepskin vests and garriga (cowbells) on their backs, the dancers arrange themselves in two lines, leaving a space in the middle. One line advances with small steps, moving forward with the left foot, then back with the right; the opposite line moves forward with the right foot and back with the left, making for an impressive visual effect. They are one of Sardinia’s icons, known around the world, and they will be performing exclusively during Terra Madre’s opening ceremony on Thursday October 23.
Giovedì, 15:00, PalaSport Olimpico (Isozaki)
Cerimonia ufficiale di apertura di Terra Madre
24) Italy – Bandakadabra
A street marching band whose repertoire is primarily inspired by the music of the Balkans and Central Europe. The project, created in January 2005 out of the meeting of about 20 musicians from a range of artistic backgrounds, is marked by the originality of its arrangements and the danceability of the performed pieces. Central American calypso, nigun, marcette and moving Romany melodies merge with Italian band traditions, giving life to itinerant performances that both captivating and charged with joy.
They will perform at Terra Madre’s opening ceremony on Thursday October 23.
Giovedì, 15:00, PalaSport Olimpico (Isozaki)
Cerimonia ufficiale di apertura di Terra Madre
26) Italy – Calabria Marasà
These musicians are also researchers into Calabrian folk songs. Their studies pay close attention to popular traditions, which they then revisit in a way that is perfectly in harmony with the original inspiration. The group performs using ancient Calabrian instruments like the lyre, the battente guitar, zampogne bagpipes, the organetto and the accordion.
friday, 18:15, Stage Lomax, external Oval
saturday, 18:15, Stage Lomax, external Oval
27) Italy – Encelado Superbo
The life and soul of the band, Pippo Cardello has been studying the history and traditions of Sicily for many years. In 2006 the group produced a work called Sicilia d’Aranci, a series of pieces about citrus fruit and the pride and despair of Sicilians. The group takes its name from the giant Enceladus, who according to myth lives imprisoned inside Etna.
friday, 16:55, Stage Lomax, external Oval
saturday, 17:10, Stage Lomax, external Oval
28) Italy – Ortoincondotta
The group is made up of pupils from the Carife middle school, who sing about life in Baronia and the Ufita Valley. A choral music group led by literature teacher Salvatore Salvatore and music instructor Lucio Lazzeruolo, their themes come from the hard life of the fields, the shepherd’s seasonal migrations with the flocks and love songs of shepherds and farmers.
friday, 17:15, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
saturday, 17:20, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
29) Italy – San Salvario Sound Station
A project created out of the desire to encourage integration and multicultural education through music, a universal form of cultural expression that is rooted in cultures and identities but able to blend them, lowering their boundaries and restoring their fluidity. The musical training and production project, based in San Salvario, offers courses in instruments and general musical workshops in which unusual and multicultural musical disciplines find a space. They are run by musicians of the highest artistic caliber. They will perform during the Terra Madre opening ceremony.
Giovedì, 15:00, PalaSport Olimpico (Isozaki)
Cerimonia ufficiale di apertura di Terra Madre
30) Italy - Pequeñas Huellas
A chorus of 200 children of different nationalities from regions suffering from war, disease or hunger, Pequeñas Huellas is also a cultural development project which organizes workshops and courses around the world for children and young musicians to inspire interest in local music and its interpretation - both academic and popular. The chorus, coordinated by Sabina Colonna Preti, performs pieces taken from the Andean oral tradition and transcribed into musical notation by Baltasar Martínez Compañón, the bishop of Trujillo. The pieces include dances, songs and melodies, with themes ranging from love to Christmas, and including references to slavery. They will perform during the Terra Madre opening ceremony on Thursday October 23.
Giovedì, 15:00, PalaSport Olimpico (Isozaki)
Cerimonia ufficiale di apertura di Terra Madre
31) Norway – Lajla Storli & John Ole Morken
The music and song lyrics are derived from ancient Norwegian musical traditions, bearing witness to a culture and preserving its history. They perform wearing traditional dress.
friday, 11:40, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
saturday, 13:40, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
sunday, 14:55, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
32) Scotland – Croiterian Chamas Chros
Traditional Scottish music from the Highlands for dancing the jig, the reel and the strathspey. The bagpipes are of ancient origin, which were later replaced by the better-known war pipe. The older bagpipes are ideal for supporting the rhythm of the traditional dances, while the war pipe is used primarily for more melodious but warlike tunes.
friday, 14:35, Stage Lomax, external Oval
saturday, 14:40, Stage Lomax, external Oval
sunday, 14:50, Stage Lomax, external Oval
33) Switzerland –Verbanus Duo
Music from Ticino on the zampogna bagpipes and the ciaramella woodwind, with some influences from the folk music of the Italian regions.
saturday, 14:00, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
34) Switzerland –Marsina Duo
This duo, made up of ethno-musicologist and R.T.S.I. collaborator Pietro Bianchi and Barbara Knoph, perform a repertoire of dances and songs from Canton Ticino. Their music is based on various field studies, expressing the farmers’ voices and reflecting the rural Ticino world.
friday, 16:25, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
saturday, 16:40, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
sunday, 14:10, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
35) Spain – Lluis El Sifoner
Folk singer from Valencia who performs with his group of six musicians, playing traditional instruments: bagpipes, clarinet, saxophone, dulcimer and percussion (tabal and baixo).
friday, 13:55, Stage Lomax, external Oval
saturday, 14:00, Stage Lomax, external Oval
sunday, 13:40, Stage Lomax, external Oval
MIDDLE EAST
36) Turkey – Behcet Gulas
The son of Veli Gulas, a Slow Food Award winner in 2000 who passed away last year, Behcet continues his father’s work of producing honey and is also a guitarist and singer of traditional music from the area around the Aegean and Mediterranean.
friday, 11:20, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
saturday, 11:20, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
sunday, 11:45, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
AFRICA
37) Cameroon – Producers from the Bamenda Highlands Convivium
African folk music inspired primarily by nature and life in the fields. They generally perform at their community’s events and use intriguingly shaped handmade instruments which accompany one or two female voices depending on the piece. Of particular interest are the wooden xylophone and the sail-shaped African guitar.
friday, 15:25 Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
saturday, 15:15 Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
38) Cape Verde – Era Uma Vez Un Boi
A band that draws on Cape Verdean traditions while leaving space for a more modern reinterpretation of some historical classics. The instruments are mostly variants on the guitar, including some unusual ones like the covaquino or the characteristic banjo.
friday, 15:45 Stage Lomax, external Oval
saturday, 15:50 Stage Lomax, external Oval
39) Ethiopia – Zala Kamba
A group of 20 dancers who perform to traditional Ethiopian music.
friday, 11:35 Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
saturday, 11:35 Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
sunday, 15:30 Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
40) Ethiopia – Sileshi Demissie
Celebrated musicians with a social conscience, particularly active in fighting against deforestation. The duo includes a singer and a player of the Ethiopian guitar krahar.
friday, 11:00, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
saturday, 11:00, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
sunday, 11:00, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
41) Senegal – Traditional Dionwar Band
A group of about 10 women from the Saloum islands, who collect and process seashells and who play various percussion instruments including calabash gourds. They are the animating spirits of village life, performing at weddings and religious festivals.
friday, 11:00 Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
saturday, 11:00 Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
sunday, 14:10 Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
42) Kenya – Kailer Women’s Group from Baringo
The group comes from the semi-arid Baringo district in the central Rift Valley, and the members are part of the Ilchamus ethnic group within the larger Masai community. Their music involves dances and tribal songs, and they use unusual instruments like calabash shakers. These are made from the fruit of a kind of vine, dried and filled with small stones. The fruits have a natural handle that allows them to be shaken rhythmically, producing a sound similar to maracas. Sticks over two meters long are used to accompany the dancers’ steps, representing both the spear used to defend against predators, and the switch used to control the herds. Other instruments include horns, pipes, metal bells and cow-hide drums.
friday, 13:55 Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
saturday, 13:55 Carpet Carpitella, external pavilion
NORTH AMERICA
43) United States – Checkered Past
A five-piece band who perform music inspired by the jazz and folk rhythms of multicultural American tradition on the violin, banjo and double bass. Their song lyrics are rich in references to food and the need for sustainability.
friday, 11:10, Stage Lomax, external Oval
saturday, 16:20, Stage Lomax, external Oval
sunday, 15:30, Stage Lomax, external Oval
44) United States – Onion Creek and Barn Dance
The band members work closely with farmers and their music draws inspiration from the rural agricultural world. Their songs are rooted in traditional American music, even though many develop from the personal and innovative contributions of the two musicians. The song lyrics speak about sustainability and farming life.
friday, 14:00, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
saturday, 16:20, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
sunday, 11:45, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
45) Guatemala – Ko Konob (Nuestro pueblo)
Indigenous musicians who play the marimba, a percussion instrument with wooden bars under which dried and hollowed-out squashes and large bamboo canes are arranged as “resonators.” The modern version of the instrument is the xilorimba with metal bars and metal resonators, often heard in light and symphony orchestras.
friday, 14:40, Stage Leydi, pavilion 3
saturday, 14:50, Stage Leydi, pavilion 3
sunday, 14:50, Stage Leydi, pavilion 3
46) Jamaica – Iion Station
A duo inspired by Rastafarian philosophy, performing pieces with religious themes using percussion and voice.
friday, 15:20, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
saturday, 16:00, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
sunday, 14:00, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
47) Cuba – Humberto y Daniel Duo
Their music is inspired by the traditions (and cuisine) of Cuba, and their characteristic instruments include the maribula, of ancient African origin: a wooden box with two holes of different sizes - under the second hole there are horizontal pieces of metal of various dimensions which are played to produce the sound.
friday, 14:40, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
saturday, 11:40, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
48) Brazil – Encantadeiras
Traditional Brazilian music performed by four women accompanied by indigenous percussion.
friday, 16:00, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
saturday, 15:20, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
sunday
50) Brazil - Cardoso Domingos Claudio and Alves da Silva Mendes Renan Antônio
The duo play music from the northeast of Brazil on the viola and saxophone.
friday, 16:40, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
saturday, 14:40, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
sunday, 15:15, Stage De Martino, pavilion 2
51) Brazil – Agostinho Valdir José
Singer and painter.
friday, 17:00, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
saturday, 16:55, Stage Favara, pavilion 1
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