Annual, 3-Day Dance and Drum Festival in Boston MA USA. In 2008, artists included Malang Bayo, Youssouf Koumbassa, Assane Konte, Lamine Toure, Abdoulaye Sylla, Kissema Diabate, Mariama Basse, Babacar M'Baye, Mar Gueye, and others...
Med'Set is a project born from the common desire of singer-violinist Akim El Sikameya and festival director Sete Sois Sete Luas to give life, by music, to this idea of a Mediterranean culture, common to all people of the region, and stronger than any political division. "Before being Portuguese, Spanish, Algerian, Italian or Greek, we are Mediterranean."
And to prove it, Akim el Sikameya, worldwide famous singer and violinist, wanted to reunite in an exceptional creation, seven
Lo'Jo are as much about an idea as the music they make. The band, founded in 1982 in Angers , has been involved in multimedia shows, circuses, politics, and even hosted a festival in the Malian desert; not your basic group, by any means.
One of world's greatest flutist Ronald Snijders (born Suriname, living in The Netherlands). Recorded in Durban, South Africa, at the Poetry Africa Festival, October 2006
"One of the best cantaores, thanks to his ability to innovate, his mastery of all the palos (forms), both festive and solemn, and his "magnificent vocal chords made of excellent flamenco metal" (José Manuel Gamboa).
Niger is trapped between Algeria, Mali, Bukina Faso and other countries in the northern part of Africa. No ocean in sight to quench the thirst. Only the Sahara's endless desert. Front man Yacouba Moumouni & ensemble mix West & North African traditions.
"The Ganelin Trio Priority played a staggering set on the penultimate evening of the June, 2007 Vision Festival, a continuous and constantly morphing shock-and-awe campaign in which all national and international demarcations were obliterated."
- Marc Medwin, allaboutjazz.com, August, 2007, USA
" ... improvisational genius of the highest order"
- Tom Sekowski, The Live Music Report, January 2008, USA