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PHOTOS: The Official Images Of WOMEX 2009

Posted Fri, 10/30/2009 - 1:01pm by MyWorldMusic
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WOMEX is entering into it's third day. If you've never been to a event like this, allow me to give you the nickle tour.

We spend the day at the Bella Center convention hall going to networking events, meetings and seminars. At night, we ride the Metro for 2 stops to the beautiful Copenhagen Concert Center to mingle and watch showcase performances. The Bella Center has WiFi...the concert hall does not?

NOTE TO WOMEX: WHOOPS

Now that I'm settled in for a breather and hooked in digitally (thanks Bella Center), let me point you in the direction of some great photos from last night.

My wife, Heather Weimer, is one of four official photographers for this years WOMEX conference. Her photos from last night can be found at http://www.heatherlweimer.com/womex2009.

I also recommend you check out the work of the other three WOMEX photographers:

Eric van Nieuwland - http://www.thedigitalphotoexperience.nl/

Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones - http://www.jljphotography.co.uk/gallery_278980.html

Jacob Crawfurd - http://www.crawfurd.com/womex/index.php

They are all great guys and their work is amazing. Take a peak!

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We Watched Mamane Barka Do Soundcheck...WOMEX Is In For A Nice Trance!

Posted Thu, 10/29/2009 - 1:36pm by MyWorldMusic
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Here is the background...

There has been only one old master of the Biram left. The youth is not interested any more. But when the musician Malam Mamane Barka, he himself a nomad from the Toubou tribe, heard about the Biram some years ago, he decided to stay with the old master to learn the Boudouma language and how to play the instrument. In 2002 he got a UNESCO scholarship to materialize his dream. And when he arrived on the Boudouma island he was warmly welcomed by the master who thought his instrument dead already. After many rituals of purification the old master agreed to educate Malam Mamane Barka the holy instrument and the lyrics of the mystical songs. As Barka himself is a son of the sand dunes, the old master gave him his last Biram as a gift. Malam Mamane Barka inherited with the BIRAM the knowledge of rituals and cultural heritage of the Boudouma. He is conscious about his responsibility according to the Boudouma and their spirit Kargila. After the legends Kargila is watching the Boudouma and cares about their culture and their situation.

Learn more at http://www.mamanebarka.com/

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Boris Malkovsky At WOMEX 2009

Posted Thu, 10/29/2009 - 12:21pm by MyWorldMusic
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Boris Malkovsky of Israel is on stage for 1st showcase at #womex. Rock...jazz...classical...nice.

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PHOTOS: Check Out WOMEX cam

Posted Thu, 10/29/2009 - 12:04pm by MyWorldMusic
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WOMEXcam is a continuously updated slideshow from WOMEX 2009. If you are attending the event, you can click through the photos and try to find yourself. If you couldn't make it to Copenhagen, you can have a look to see what you've missed.

WOMEXcam is HERE>

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PHOTOS: The Great Nordic Band at WOMEX 2009

Posted Thu, 10/29/2009 - 8:17am by MyWorldMusic
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The GREAT NORTIC BAND session was a wonderful way to kick off WOMEX 2009. It was an excellent introduction into music from this part of the world to the WOMEX attendees from all around the globe. There were some really nice moments (and some a little less nice). Overall...a very eye-opening performance.

Highlights for me included a powerful (and sometimes insane) chant from Wimme Saari, some beautiful vocals by Helene Blum, a beautifully subdued accordion piece by Johanna Juhola and some awesome singing by Heida Arnadottir.

See more photos from the performance at http://heatherlweimer.com/womex2009_day01

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Opening Night At WOMEX 2009

Posted Wed, 10/28/2009 - 6:50pm by MyWorldMusic

I'm sitting in front of the stage at the Copenhagen Concert Hall waiting for the opening night of WOMEX 2009 to begin. I'm in a beautiful concert hall that I'm told was built about a year ago. It designed with acoustics in mind and I can't wait to hear what it sounds like.

The opening act is a special local talent showcase called The Great Nordic Band. Here is what the WOMEX 2009 websites says about this performance...

"WOMEX is proud to announce a special, exclusive event for the Opening Concert – the Great Nordic Night, presented in association with the Danish Folk Council. In Danish Broadcasting’s great Koncerthuset, a newly built concert venue in Copenhagen, an all-star Nordic band takes to the stage with artists from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Samiland and Greenland. Danish fiddler Harald Haugaard has created and will direct this once-in-a-lifetime concert experience.

Traditional Nordic music continues to live and develop . It constitutes part of the common as well as the individual identity in Nordic culture, and exists to this day in its authentic forms such as Sami joik, Danish sønderhoning and Swedish kulning as well as in updated contemporary versions.

The Great Nordic Night tells the tale of the life, history and nature of the Nordic peoples through music, song and light, and the concert introduces the multiplicity, the shades, not to mention the force of ancient Nordic music in a modern tone. The bedrock on stage is The Great Nordic Band, counting some of the very best musicians on the current traditional and contemporary Nordic music scene, including Roger Tallroth (guitar), Ragnhild Furebotten (violin) and Tapani Varis (bass).

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MyWorldMusicFriends is in Copenhagen for WOMEX 2009...

Posted Mon, 10/26/2009 - 4:30pm by MyWorldMusic

Keep checking back for more to come!

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Join the MyWorldMusicFriends "World Music Weblink Drive"

Posted Thu, 06/25/2009 - 4:46pm by MyWorldMusic
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