folkBALTICA Festival, Flensburg, 10 - 14 May 2006
(2007 02 09 09:55)
“Without folk music we wouldn’t be playing any folk music and you cannot overestimate its importance. We draw our musical and human impressions from this deep heritage.” With these words Nils Landgren commented the importance and idea of the first edition of folkBALTICA.
folkBALTICA is a festival of national and international significance. It provides a unique stage for the Nordic and Baltic music culture. The annual folkBALTICA is held two weeks before Ascension Day in Flensburg and the neighbouring German-Danish border region. After jazz (Jazzbaltica) and classical music (Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival), folk music presented in a contemporary form is the third cornerstone of the spectrum of the major music festivals in the region. Ute Erdsiek Rave the Minister of Culture of Schleswig-Holstein called the folkBALTICA Festival “a new lighthouse on the musical horizon of Schleswig-Holstein”. The festival is also receiving a great degree of attention and acceptance in the Nordic countries. Unlike the Nordic and Baltic countries that tend to concentrate on their own music, folkBALTICA focuses on the overall musical variety of the countries around the Baltic Sea. This makes the festival, which is a member of ARS BALTICA, both an event and a broker that acts as a motor for the continued development of the cultural and economic network in the Baltic Sea region.
Friends of the Nordic music can look forward to the continuation of the folkBALTICA Festival in Flensburg and other towns of the South Jutland/Schleswig regions.
With an audience of over 2000 people during the first edition of folkBALTICA, the organisers surpassed even the target they had set themselves. According to the front pages of Schleswig-Holstein Newspaper Group, there were inspiring, rousing concerts, musical and human encounters and a good advertising effect for the region.
Among the last year’s artists were: the Swedish trombonist Nils Landgren, the legendary Swedish folk band Groupa, Norwegian singer-poet Kari Bremnes, the young Danish group Zar and many other talented artists.
Due to the success of the first edition of the event its organisers decided that it should be held annually always two weeks before Ascension Day.
This year’s edition will be focused on the Swedish music and the main role will be played by Nyckelharpa - the Swedish national instrument that is a sort of fiddle with keyboard. In 2006 the venues in Flensburg and the German-Danish region of Sønderjylland-Schleswig will be host for over 80 musicians from all the countries around the Baltic Sea.
The main stage will be organised at the "Alte Post" in Flensburg, but the range of concerts throughout Schleswig-Flensburg County will be expanded. On the Danish side, the venues will be concentrated around the Sonderborg district.
folkBALTICA 2006 will host:
Mari Boine and Band (N)
* She is the most popular artist of the original Scandinavian people, the Sami.
* In 1992 Mari Boine sang in front of the UN General Assembly at the launch of the “International Year of the World's Indigenous People”; and she worked on the “One World – One Voice” project initiated by Peter Gabriel. Jazz fans will know her from her collaboration with tenor-saxophonist Jan Garbarek.
* Mari Boine and her band are returning to Schleswig-Holstein for the first time in seven years, to Flensburg for the 2nd folkBALTICA with the new programme “Vuoi, Vuoi Mu”, which was “bestillingsverk” at Telemarkfestivalen 2005 in Bø.
Rzepczyno (PL) – the folk-rock group
* Poland will be participating in folkBALTICA for the first time!
Mara Silaja-Woelke (LV)
* Latvia will also be represented at folkBALTICA for the first time
Gunnel Mauritzson Band (S) and Sextett (Hommage to Lars Gullin)
Maria Kalaniemi Solo (FIN)
* THE Finnish accordion player, with her new solo programme
* Sofia Karlsson sings Dan Andersson (S) former Groupa-singer got a Golden Record for her CD „Svarta Ballader“
Wolfgang Meyering`s Malbrook (D)
TRIO MIO (DK)
Svanevit (S)
Fliflet/ Hamre (N)
* The smallest big-band of the north
Dragseth Duo (D)
* From the neighbouring city of Husum, with their remarkable Hiimstoun programme, a repertoire of songs in 5 languages, together with
Drones and Bellows (DK)
Faust (S)
For additional information look at website.
Contact:
folkBALTICA e.V.
Festival-office
Süderfischerstrasse 8
D-24937 Flensburg
Fon: +49 (0)461 168 90 12
Fax: +49 (0)461 493 55 69
E-Mail: info@folkbaltica.de
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folkBALTICA is a festival of national and international significance. It provides a unique stage for the Nordic and Baltic music culture. The annual folkBALTICA is held two weeks before Ascension Day in Flensburg and the neighbouring German-Danish border region. After jazz (Jazzbaltica) and classical music (Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival), folk music presented in a contemporary form is the third cornerstone of the spectrum of the major music festivals in the region. Ute Erdsiek Rave the Minister of Culture of Schleswig-Holstein called the folkBALTICA Festival “a new lighthouse on the musical horizon of Schleswig-Holstein”. The festival is also receiving a great degree of attention and acceptance in the Nordic countries. Unlike the Nordic and Baltic countries that tend to concentrate on their own music, folkBALTICA focuses on the overall musical variety of the countries around the Baltic Sea. This makes the festival, which is a member of ARS BALTICA, both an event and a broker that acts as a motor for the continued development of the cultural and economic network in the Baltic Sea region.
Friends of the Nordic music can look forward to the continuation of the folkBALTICA Festival in Flensburg and other towns of the South Jutland/Schleswig regions.
With an audience of over 2000 people during the first edition of folkBALTICA, the organisers surpassed even the target they had set themselves. According to the front pages of Schleswig-Holstein Newspaper Group, there were inspiring, rousing concerts, musical and human encounters and a good advertising effect for the region.
Among the last year’s artists were: the Swedish trombonist Nils Landgren, the legendary Swedish folk band Groupa, Norwegian singer-poet Kari Bremnes, the young Danish group Zar and many other talented artists.
Due to the success of the first edition of the event its organisers decided that it should be held annually always two weeks before Ascension Day.
This year’s edition will be focused on the Swedish music and the main role will be played by Nyckelharpa - the Swedish national instrument that is a sort of fiddle with keyboard. In 2006 the venues in Flensburg and the German-Danish region of Sønderjylland-Schleswig will be host for over 80 musicians from all the countries around the Baltic Sea.
The main stage will be organised at the "Alte Post" in Flensburg, but the range of concerts throughout Schleswig-Flensburg County will be expanded. On the Danish side, the venues will be concentrated around the Sonderborg district.
folkBALTICA 2006 will host:
Mari Boine and Band (N)
* She is the most popular artist of the original Scandinavian people, the Sami.
* In 1992 Mari Boine sang in front of the UN General Assembly at the launch of the “International Year of the World's Indigenous People”; and she worked on the “One World – One Voice” project initiated by Peter Gabriel. Jazz fans will know her from her collaboration with tenor-saxophonist Jan Garbarek.
* Mari Boine and her band are returning to Schleswig-Holstein for the first time in seven years, to Flensburg for the 2nd folkBALTICA with the new programme “Vuoi, Vuoi Mu”, which was “bestillingsverk” at Telemarkfestivalen 2005 in Bø.
Rzepczyno (PL) – the folk-rock group
* Poland will be participating in folkBALTICA for the first time!
Mara Silaja-Woelke (LV)
* Latvia will also be represented at folkBALTICA for the first time
Gunnel Mauritzson Band (S) and Sextett (Hommage to Lars Gullin)
Maria Kalaniemi Solo (FIN)
* THE Finnish accordion player, with her new solo programme
* Sofia Karlsson sings Dan Andersson (S) former Groupa-singer got a Golden Record for her CD „Svarta Ballader“
Wolfgang Meyering`s Malbrook (D)
TRIO MIO (DK)
Svanevit (S)
Fliflet/ Hamre (N)
* The smallest big-band of the north
Dragseth Duo (D)
* From the neighbouring city of Husum, with their remarkable Hiimstoun programme, a repertoire of songs in 5 languages, together with
Drones and Bellows (DK)
Faust (S)
For additional information look at website.
Contact:
folkBALTICA e.V.
Festival-office
Süderfischerstrasse 8
D-24937 Flensburg
Fon: +49 (0)461 168 90 12
Fax: +49 (0)461 493 55 69
E-Mail: info@folkbaltica.de