The FMM Sines – Festival Músicas do Mundo, the biggest event of “world music” and other music held in Portugal, returns to Sines between the 19th and 28th of July. The concert lineup is one of the strongest in the event's history, bringing together acclaimed stars such as Hugh Masekela, Mari Boine, Béla Fleck, Oumou Sangaré, Tony Allen and Marc Ribot, with new stars such as Fatoumata Diawara, Bombino and Gurrumul.
In a festival that has been assumed since its first edition, in 1999, as a public cultural service, the program maintains as a guiding principle to provide Portuguese and foreign spectators who visit it with a color image of the musical world, in which there are no genres or geographies dominant and in which the dialogues between cultures are, increasingly, the form of expression that best defines contemporaneity.
There will be 36 concerts with musicians from five continents and a multitude of musical styles spread over two main periods: July 19th to 21st (first weekend), with performances on the historical stage of the Castle, and July 25th to 28th (second weekend). week), with shows at the Castle and on the Pontal stage, set up next to Vasco da Gama Beach. The parallel initiatives take place, continuously, between the 19th and the 28th of July, and on the 24th of July there will be a special concert at the Centro de Artes de Sines.
Three changes from 2011:
• More music on the first weekend
The nights of the 19th, 20th and 21st of July, the festival's first weekend, will be more intense this year, with four concerts instead of just three. The last concert of each day, in “after-hours”, will be dance-oriented.
• New location of the stage on Av. Vasco da Gama
The 100% free stage next to Vasco da Gama Beach will have a different location this year, leaning against the rock known in Sines as “Pontal”. The change is due to the works of the Urban Regeneration Program, in progress on Av. Vasco da Gama until June of next year. These works on the Sines seafront are transforming Av. Vasco da Gama into a large public promenade, aimed at pedestrians and cultural and leisure activities, also benefiting FMM Sines from 2013 onwards.
• A day of music completely free
Wednesday, July 25, the opening night of the second weekend, it will have a special format, with two concerts (one at the Castle and the other by the beach), both with free entry.
What Sines has to offer in 2012:
• From Béla Fleck to Hugh Masekela, from Oumou Sangaré to Mari Boine, concerts featuring world popular music geniuses
The FMM Sines 2012 program offers the public the opportunity to see some of the most important musicians in popular music worldwide, consecrated by the public and critics and with a contribution that leaves a mark on the history of the universes in which each one moves.
On the opening day, Thursday, July 19, the Castle is the stage for a concert with the American musician's band. otis taylor, creator of “trance-blues”, blues with psychedelic tours, and one of the greatest innovators of the genre today.
On Saturday, July 21, Sines receives the meeting between the Malian Oumou Sangare and the americanBeautiful Fleck. Oumou is one of the greatest African singers of all time and Béla Fleck, winner of 14 Grammys and the artist nominated for the most different categories in the history of these awards, is a strong candidate for the title of greatest banjoist ever.
Right after the concert by Oumou Sangaré and Béla Fleck, the New Yorker Marc ribot, one of the greatest guitarists of today, presents himself with his most emblematic project, Los Cubanos Postizos, based on Latin American repertoire.
On Friday, July 27th, Sines receives the Norwegian Mari Boine, voice of the Sami people of northern Scandinavia and one of the most important singer-songwriters of European folk of the last three decades.
Saturday, July 28, two African giants pass by Sines Castle: the South African trumpeter and singer Hugh Masekela, jazz exponent and one of the moral figures of the culture and society of his country, and the Nigerian drummerTony Allen, Fela Kuti's right-hand man in the Afrobeat revolution, who brings to Sines his new project, “Black Series”, in partnership with the American Amp Fiddler, keyboardist and singer of Parliament-Funkadelic.
• From Bombino to Fatoumata Diawara, from Gurrumul to Dhafer Youssef, concerts with the new stars of music without borders
More or less young, there are artists who are experiencing a moment of full affirmation of their career and conquering new audiences. Sines is once again one of the best stages to receive them and present them in concerts that are, in many cases, absolute firsts in Portugal.
On the opening day, Thursday, July 19, Sines welcomes the revelation Bombino, guitarist and vocalist born in Niger, who represents the new generation of music of the Tuareg tradition, in line with other great groups from the Sahara desert, such as Tinariwen and Tartit, which the festival hosted in previous years.
Also on the 19th, the group Narasirate, from the Solomon Islands, showcases traditional Pacific music in its most festive and communicative strain, capable of engaging all types of audiences, as demonstrated by its appearances at major European rock festivals such as Roskilde and Glastonbury.
On Friday, July 20th, the Finnish instrumental group Frigg it brings violins and more with its Nordgrass-style music, a cross between Nordic folk, bluegrass and Celtic music elements.
For Thursday, July 26, already on the second weekend, a state of grace night is reserved at the Castle, with the audacity of the leaders of the “tango de rutura” movement, the Argentines Shipyard, the sensitivity of the Australian aboriginal musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, “Australia's most important voice” for Rolling Stone magazine, and the maliana's charm Fatoumata Diawara, the young African artist everyone wants to see, winner of the Breakthrough category of the latest “world music” awards from British magazine Songlines.
Still on July 26, but already on the Pontal stage, the Bosnians Dubioza Kolektiv they show with their Balkan rhythms influenced by hip hop and Jamaican music because they are one of the most popular bands in Eastern Europe.
For the following day, Friday, July 27, a concert not to be missed with the tunisian lute player and singer quartet is scheduled for the Castle. dhafer youssef, whose aesthetic is a synthesis between Arab music and European jazz.
On Saturday, July 28th, Canadian healthy madness socalled, a musician situated between the universes of Jewish tradition and hip hop, makes himself heard in a concert on the Pontal stage.
The final concert at the Castle, on the same day, will be in charge of Jupiter. With a long career, Jupiter is only now beginning to get the recognition he deserves outside his country, and he promises, with his orchestra Okwess International, a Congolese trance concert at its finest.
• Europeans with Africans, Arabs with Americans, humans with machines
If the globalization movement can mean uniformity and loss of cultural diversity, it can also facilitate creative dialogues that would not happen without the ease of communication we have today. FMM Sines 2012 is especially rich in these encounters between traditions and seemingly distant aesthetic realities.
On Friday, July 20th, Sines receives the ensemble al-madar, a New York Arabic Orchestra project composed by Lebanese multi-instrumentalist Bassam Saba and four American musicians. The fusion between Arab music and the involving rhythm of New York (funk, soul, rock, Afro-Latin) is the proposal.
Also on July 20th, we will see how the joint project between the Tunisian Lotfi Bouchnak, one of the greatest singers in the Arab world, and the Franco-Italian band L'Enfance Rouge, a reference group of European art rock.
On the same night, the Castle will dance to the sound ofChlorophyll + Los Mezcaleros de La Sierra (Nortec Collective), whose music represents the culture of the city of Tijuana, on the US-Mexico border, bringing together electronics and northern Mexican traditions.
On Saturday, July 21, the great music of Ethiopia is celebrated through the meeting between the Swiss orchestra Imperial Tiger Orchestra and the singer Hamelmal slaughter, one of the divas of that African country.
On the same night, in what will be the closing concert of the first weekend of the festival, the audience of the Castle will dance to the sound of Shanghai Electro, an electronic and supersonic transformation of traditional “shangaan” dance from the South African province of Limpopo.
On the second weekend, the day with the most crossings is Friday, July 27, with three Euro-Africa meetings not to be missed: Kouyaté-Neerman, a project on the borders between jazz, alternative rock and traditional music, with the participation of the Malian griot Lansiné Kouyaté and the French musician David Neerman; Zita Swion Group, a Belgian band led by musician Stef Kamil Carlens that debuts in Sines with an album conceived in Burkina Faso with the Mandinga griots Awa Démé and Mamadou Diabaté Kibié; and Juju, one of the most awarded cross-cultural projects in world music, with the British Justin Adams, Robert Plant's guitarist, and the Gambian griot Juldeh Camara.
• From Dead Combo to Lirinha, Portuguese music and in Portuguese with open arms to the world
The festival's program includes in its line-up a dozen concerts with music from Portugal and from countries with historical and cultural links to Portugal.
Amelia Muge, one of the most important Portuguese singer-songwriters, opens FMM Sines 2012, on Thursday, July 19, in Castelo, with her project “Periplus”, held in partnership with the Greek musician Michael Loukovikas. On the same day, one of the most important figures of the Mozambican Marrabenta, the singer Wazimbo, takes to the stage.
On Friday, July 20, also in Castelo, two of the most talented musicians in Portuguese pop rock, singer Ana Deus and guitarist Alexandre Soares, present their new project, Vain Bone.
Saturday, July 21, is the day of one of the festival's events: the live debut of the Portuguese duo dead combo with one of the musicians who most influenced his musical aesthetic, the American guitarist Marc ribot, present in Sines for another concert, with his project Cubanos Postizos.
On the second weekend, Thursday, July 26, the music day at Castelo is opened by Couple Coffee, a project by singer Luanda Cozetti and bassist Norton Daiello, Brazilian musicians based in Portugal. Minutes later, on the Pontal stage, they perform Uxu Kalhus, one of the most powerful live Portuguese music and dance groups with traditional roots.
the septet devil to seven, one of the most important bands in Portuguese folk today, is at Castelo the following day, Friday, July 27th.
A Orchestra All, a project with immigrant musicians from various origins that shows the multiculturality of Lisbon, can be seen on Saturday, July 28, at Castelo.
The Brazilian lirinha, one of the figures of the “indie MPB”, after his presence in Sines in 2006 with Cordel do Fogo Encantado, returns with his solo project for the festival's closing concert, on the 28th, on the Pontal stage.
• An extra night, totally free, with music from Italy and Cape Verde
The FMM Sines 2012 program will have a special music night, on Wednesday, July 25th, with a long-lasting show at the Castle, and a concert on the stage by the beach, which opens this festival venue in this edition. Both shows are free to enter.
The show at the Castle, starting at 22 pm, will be performed by the Notte della Taranta ensemble, which will bring to Sines the essence of one of the most important popular music festivals held in Italy, in this case in the Apulia region (Puglia), cradle of “pizzica”, trance music used by peasants to cure tarantula bites (taranta ). It is a show with the support of the Fondazione La Notte della Taranta.
The concert by the beach, from 00:30, will be in charge of Review of, one of the most interesting Cape Verdean musicians of the new generation.
Mention is also given to another concert with free admission, the day before, July 24th, in the auditorium of the Centro de Artes de Sines, with the American vocal and viola duo Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang.
Parallel initiatives:
In 2012, FMM Sines once again presented a program of parallel initiatives, with arts, letters, workshops, debates and DJ sessions that enrich the festival's concert component.
Between July 13th and September 29th, at the Centro de Artes de Sines and Centro Cultural Emmerico Nunes, the exhibition takes place “Shoreline – Plastic Arts in the Ar.Co Collection”, with works from the collection of one of the most important Portuguese art schools. The exhibition opens on the 13th, at 18 pm, and can be visited every day, between 00 pm and 14 pm. Admission is free. It is a partnership between Ar.Co – Center for Art and Visual Communication, the Municipality of Sines and the Emmerico Nunes Cultural Center.
Between the 19th and 28th of July, the Chapel of Mercy receives a Book and Disc Fair, in partnership with the arts bookstore and the VGM store. The fair is open between 17:00 pm and 2:00 am in the periods 19-21 and 25-28 July and between 18:00 pm and 00:00 am on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of July.
Under the initiative Tales from So Many Worlds, oral narration will be highlighted at the Sines Arts Center with short story sessions by Clara Haddad (19th, at 17:00 pm), Contabandistas (20th and 26th, at 17:15 pm), Thomas Bakk (22nd, at 18:00 pm), Paula Cusati and Fernando Malão (23rd at 18pm), Carlos Marques (00th at 25pm) and Cristina Taquelim (17th at 00pm). All sessions are free entry.
Also in the program centered on the word, on July 27, at 17 pm, also at the Sines Arts Center, there will be a meeting with writers João Tordo and David Machado, two of the most representative authors of the new Portuguese letters. It is a partnership with the arts bookstore.
Already a classic of the festival's program of parallel initiatives, the children's workshopsfrom 6 to 12 years old return in 2012, with artists from the festival and beyond: Narasirato (19th), L'Enfance Rouge & Lotfi Bouchnak (20th), Oumou Sangaré (21st), Magnetic Stories – Sérgio Pelágio and Isabel Gaivão (day 23), Bilan (day 25), Lirinha (day 26), Kouyaté-Neerman (day 27) and Jupiter (day 28). The workshops take place at 11:00 am, with the exception of the Magnetic Stories, at 15:00 pm. Participation is free, but requires booking at the counter at the Centro de Artes (tel. 269 860 080).
The initiative is planned for babies Lullababies: Lullabies Laboratory, with Sandra Passarello, on the 19th, 20th and 21st of July, at 10:00 am, in the blackbox of the Centro de Artes de Sines. The recipients are parents and babies, kindergarten teachers and teachers, who must register, free of charge, at the counter at the Centro de Artes de Sines (tel. 269 860 080).
The cycle of documentary cinema The following films are scheduled this year: “Agadez, the Music and the Rebellion”, by Ron Wyman (20th), “The Children of Benkos”, by Lucas Silva (21st), “Banaras: Music of the Ganges”, by Yves Billon (the 26th), “The Creators”, by Laura Gamse (the 27th) and “Nôs Terra”, by Toni Polo, Nuno Pedro and Ana Tica (the 28th). The sessions, with free entry, start at 15:30 pm, in the auditorium of the Centro de Artes de Sines. The cycle is supported by Groovalizacion and Zaradoc Films.
On July 21, at 17:00 pm, at the Sines Arts Centre, based on the recent cases of South Sudan and the Tuareg of Azawad, Rui Tavares (Member Deputy) and Pedro Matos (United Nations) talk about the topic "The creation of new countries and the idea of national identity". Admission is free.
On the 24th and 25th of July, in two sessions starting at 17:30 pm, the “I Hate World Music!” workshop, an organization of the Municipality of Sines and Unipop. This workshop, based on a text by David Byrne with the same title, will debate the practices of gender classification in music and their effects on musical practice itself. The presence of Manuel Deniz Silva (musicologist), JP Simões (musician), Raquel Bulha (journalist and presenter of the program «Planeta 24», on Antena 3), Afonso Cortez (researcher and editor) are confirmed for the roundtable on the 3th. from the collection Portuguese Nuggets) and Marta Lança (Project Buala).
The schedule of DJs, on the Pontal stage, between 26 and 28 July, at 4:00 am, has two returns and a debut. The debut takes place on the 26th, with EKA [unity] presents SOUNDS LIKE CURRY, a “live act” where the sounds of Classic India join the electronic dance music. On the 27th, the duo of DJs Irmãos Makossa brings the best African rhythms to Sines. On the 28th (or more exactly at dawn, until sunrise, on the 29th), it is the Bailarico Sofisticado, as in previous editions, that will release the music for the final dance of the FMM Sines 2012.
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