MainWeltmusik Festival 2023

The international „MainWeltmusik” Festival is bringing together numerous dance and music groups from different countries of the world for 8 years. It is intended to promote the coexistence of people in the Rhine-Main area by offering the diversity of their own culture a platform that is independent of language, religion and nationality. Music is the only common language in the world because, unlike spoken language, the world of music knows no barriers of understanding; anyone who listens to a melody with an open heart understands what is being transmitted and is immersed in the world of the singer… Be there! Also this year it will be amazing and a cultural highlight in Offenbach.
LETTER FROM ISTANBUL & DILEK TÜRKAN (GRC & TUR)

ZAITSA (UKR)

which made its UK debut in 2012 at the Mela Festival, to coincide with the opening of the London Olympics.
The band’s creative activity has won many awards and prizes; their album was nominated for the „Edmonton Music Prize 2018“.
The group’s programme consists of Ukrainian folk songs in modern arrangements and their own compositions. The focus is on human feelings, especially from the time of the great wave of European immigration to North America at the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century….
SYRIAB (SYR)

DIKANDA (POL)

Landesjugendjazzorchester Hessen Junior-Band (DEU)

Die Grenzgänger (DEU)

Die Grenzgänger (The front-lineers) from Bremen gave guest performances throughout the Federal Republic, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Austria and Sweden with a stirring mix of chanson, folk song, jazz, blues and music cabaret. Deutschlandradio sent the group as a German contribution to the Festival of European Broadcasting in Norway…
OMIKRON (GRC)

Jannis Karis (GRC)

Holger Fröhlich – (DEU)

Hasan Yükselir (TUR)

Vural Güler (TUR)
TRIO FADO (PRT)

LUIKU (UKR)

Waldzitherpunk (DEU)

Giora Feidman (ISR)

Even the greatest careers start out small: Giora Feidmans humble beginnings date back more than 70 years to his youth in Buenos Aires, the capital city of Argentina. There he is born on the 25th of March 1936 as the son of Jewish immigrants from Bessarabia (Moldavia / southern Ukraine). Music runs in his blood…
Impressions of MainWeltmusik Festival 2014-2019

Ein musikalisches Fest in Offenbach | Mit der Kraft der Musik Grenzen überwinden. „Musik ohne Grenzen verbindet Nationen“ Das internationale Festival der Weltmusik möchte Menschen unterschiedlichster Herkunft zusammenführen, um das gemeinsame kulturelle und geistige Erbe miteinander zu feiern, zu teilen und weiterzuentwickeln. Dabei spielen die unterschiedlichen Nationalitäten, Religionen und Sprachen…
Jerusalem Duo (ISR)

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Streichquartett des Capitol Symphonie Orchesters (DEU)

Duo Walther & Treyz (DEU)

Flamenco Vida y Sueños (ESP)

Dijle (TUR)
Rebetiko Trio (GRC)

Vasilis Skoutas (Bouzouki, Gesang), Dimitris Mitarakis (Gitarre, Gesang) und Giannis Zarias (Geige, Baglama) lernten sich vor vielen Jahren bei gemeinsamen Auftritten in verschiedenen Bands in Athener Musiklokalen kennen. Als Trio haben sie jede Menge Spaß daran, ihre Lieblingslieder aus Rebetika und Kleinasien aufzuführen, wobei sie versuchen, ihre instrumentalen und gesanglichen…
Giora Feidman Trio (ISR)

The well-rehearsed musicians fit perfectly to one another as they almost compete against each other, each encouraging the other, supplementing something that the other began, adding points, imitating, counteracting the sequences of the partnering instruments – often with concentrated earnestness and sometimes good for a light-hearted prank. Everyone, who is able to attend, is swept away.
Every concert is one-of-a-kind…
Kočani Orkestar (MKD)

Die mächtige mazedonische Blaskapelle überraschte 1997 mit ihrem Album „L’Orient est rouge“ die westliche Welt. Der charakteristische donnernde Stil der Band wurde bald sehr beliebt: Ihre kraftvolle Rhythmusgruppe (Schlagzeuger + vier Tuben), ihre leidenschaftlichen Solisten und die schiere Funkigkeit ihrer Beats ließen jedes Publikum in den Tanz einsteigen obwohl das…
GaMaNia (DEU)

Everyone that plays or sings along with them achieves thereby the citizenship of GaMaNia and is a GaManian. Multiple citizenships are welcome. It is a nice coincidence that Ga Ma & Ni are tone syllables in indian music, and correspond with the note names E F & B or with the syllables Mi Fa & Ti in Solfeggio…
Flamenco Sentío (ESP)

The artists Rubio Montero (song), Diego Rocha (guitar), Marie Estrada (dance) have been working together very successfully over the past years. Last year at MainWeltmusik festival 2016 was a very successful celebration. The group „Sentío“ is pleased to present flamenco with a lot sentío at the festival…
Quartett Anatolia (TUR)

Hasan Yükselirs master discipline is to embed the Anatolian song and poetry of famous Turkish mystics and poets in music and to let it sound artistically. Quartet Anatolia – under the direction of Hasan Yükselir – enables a journey through traditional Anatolian folk tunes, which are interpreted in classical, western music forms as well as in the mode of jazz.
ZARIZA GITARA (RUS)

Valeriya Shishkova – Gesang Oleg Matrosow – Gesang, Gitarre, Balalaika Sascha Skripka – Violine ZARIZA GITARA spielt Zigeunermusik aus Russland, dem Land, über das seit Jahrhunderten das fahrende Volk zieht. Mit den Zigeunern ziehen ihre Lieder und Tänze, in denen Liebe und Leid, Tanz und Überleben, wärmende Sonne und schneidende…
DUO FLORES / STEINHÄUSER (ARG)

RAÍCES (Música Argentina) In der Absicht, die Wurzeln der vielfältigen Kultur Argentiniens zu ergründen, widmen sich der argentinische Sänger Diego Valentín Flores und die Berliner Pianistin Katja Steinhäuser dem repräsentativsten Repertoire dieses Landes. Zambas, Tangos, Canciones, Tonadas und mehr. Schlicht und einfach. Intensiv und berührend. Eine Reise direkt ins Herz…
Ugarit (SYR)

Walid Khatba – Violine
Abdalhade Deb – UD & Soloist
Erdem Şimşek (TUR)

Proekt Iljada (MKD)

Proekt Iljada ist eine junge Ethno-Fusion Band aus Skopje. Unser Anliegen ist es, die Schönheit der mazedonischen Musik einzufangen und mit modernen Ausdrucksmitteln zu bereichern. Wir wollen unsere Zuhörer auf eine klangliche Reise durch die vielfältige musikalische Landschaft mitnehmen, die Mazedonien zu bieten hat. Wir präsentieren ein breites Repertoire von…
Mariachi “Dos Aguilas” (MEX)
Trio Hellas (GRC)
InceSaz (TUR)

İncesaz wurde 1997 von Murat Aydemir, Derya Türkan und Cengiz Onural gegründet. Istanbul lyra, tanbur und kanun sind die wichtigsten Solisten. Das Konzertrepertoire von InceSaz ist in der Regel eine Mischung aus traditioneller und klassischer türkischer Lieder. İncesaz interpretiert auch eigene Kompositionen von Cengiz Onural und Murat Aydemir. Ezgi Köker Aldemir…
Christophe Bourdoiseau (FRA)

Der Franzose Christophe Bourdoiseau präsentiert französische Chansons im traditionellen Sinne. Aber seine eigenen Lieder sind keine Erzählungen über die Bohème in Paris sondern spielen in Berlin nach der Wende im Stadtviertel Prenzlauer Berg. Immer wieder wird er dabei von wunderbaren Musikern begleitet, die seine romantischen Chansons durch slawische und swingende…
Sina Nossa (PRT)

Duo Doyna (DEU)

Tolgahan Çoğulu (TUR)

He received both Master of Music and PhD degrees on classical guitar from Istanbul Technical University, Center for Advanced Studies in Music where he studied with Soner Egesel and Bekir Küçükay. His PhD thesis is entitled ‘The Adaptation of Baglama Techniques into Classical Guitar Performance’ and…
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Vural Güler

In his performances, Vural Güler adapts traditional Anatolian folk songs into an elegant and modern idiom. Rhythms and instruments are combined in new and innovative ways and harmonically complement his soft and resonant voice…
Kardeş Türküler

Music and Dances of Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Thrace
√ is a music and dance project from Turkey that performs the folk songs and dances of Anatolia, Thrace and Mesopotamia in their original languages, and pays special attention their own cultural contexts.
√ is an Istanbul based musical group, internationally known for their use of traditional Anatolian, Middle Eastern and Balkan instruments, drawing upon the rich, varied and conjoined cultural and musical traditions that are the band members‘ respective birthrights: Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Roma, and Armenian….
Trio Rosenrot

trio Rosenrot interprets German folk songs in a new, unique way. A folk song is like a core, an essence, which here develops a dynamism that surprises. trio Rosenrot creates an living room atmosphere in the chamber music ensemble of soprano voice, guitar and drums, which in the next moment can change into an orchestral sound space of immense vastness. Current music that touches.
For more info www.triorosenrot.net
Razbar Ensemble

The repertoire consists of a rich heritage of sacred texts and melodies that have been passed down from generation to generation. The compositions are varied, and there is no predetermined format for their performance. The texts and melodies are intuitively arranged, and even the number of musicians, singers, and members of the chorus may vary from one concert to the next…
Sedaa

Master singer Nasaa Nasanjargal and Naraa Naranbaatar who studied in their Mongolian homeland, abduct you together with the virtuosic Dulcimer player Ganzorig Davaakhuu and the Iranian Multi-instrumentalist Omid Bahadori into one genuinely exotic world between Orient and Mongolian steppe.
THE MAGICAL REBAB DUO

Hasan Yükselir (TUR)

Vali Vasile Darnea (ROU)

Der 1975 in Rumänien geborene Geiger Vali Vasile Darnea bekam schon im Alter von vier Jahren seinen ersten Geigenunterricht. Seine außerordentliche Begabung verhalf ihm schon früh, einige Wettbewerbe auf nationaler Ebene zu gewinnen. 1993 kam der junge Geiger nach Deutschland und begann zunächst als Jungstudent und zwei Jahre später als…
Rembetiko - Aspasia Stratigou & Vasilis Korakakis

Jorge Palomo
