Gibraltar World Music Festival
The Gibraltar World Music Festival (GWMF) is an annual music festival held in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The event has a different theme every year, past themes have been Sephardic, Asia minor, China and India, Maghreb, Morocco, Lusophone Culture and Afreeka.
| Gibraltar World Music Festival | |
|---|---|
 1st Gibraltar World Music Festival held at St. Michael's Cave | |
| Genre | Fado, Jazz, Samba, Bossa nova, Sephardic music, Jazz |
| Dates | June 8, 2017 |
| Location(s) | St. Michael's Cave, Gibraltar |
| Years active | 2012-present |
| Founded by | Gibraltar Productions |
| Website | gibraltarworldmusicfestival |
In 2016, the theme was the Portuguese language (Lusophone) year and called Obrigado, meaning thank you in Portuguese, with Artists from Portugal, Brazil and Cape Verde. Tickets for the event were sold at £30 (General Public) & £25 (Senior Citizens and Students) for the event in St. Michael's Cave.
In 2017 the theme will be Africa and called Uprising.
Music Concert Line ups
- 2012: SEPHARDIC DIVAS - Sarah Aroeste, OFIR, Françoise Atlan, Mor Karbasi
- 2013: PASSAGE TO ASIA - En Chordais, The Sweet Canary Ensemble, Mark Eliyahu, Amir Shahzad, Yasmin Levy
- 2014: CHINDIA - Nathan Conroy, Itamar Doari, Nitin Sawhney, Mieko Miyazaki, Guo Gan
- 2015: KHAMSA - Dhafer Youssef, David Morales, Jazz Oil, Abir El Abed, Neta Elkayam, Françoise Atlan.
- 2016: OBRIGADO - Carmen Souza, Márcio Faraco & Carminho[1]
- 2017: UPRISING - Bassekou Kouyaté, Gili Yalo and Yossi Fine and Ben Aylon
- 2018: BORDERS- Quarter to Africa and Orphy Robinson and the Voicestra Polyphonic Collective
Gallery
Carminho at GWMF 2016
Márcio Faraco at GWMF 2016
References
- ""Obrigado" is theme of Gibraltar World Music Festival". GBC. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
External links
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