MainWeltmusik Festival 2022 - INFO

MainWeltmusik – Songs without borders connect nations for peace and hope…

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…

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TRIO FADO (PRT)

Due to its uniqueness, fado was recognized as a cultural heritage of humanity in 2011 and included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List. Fado is a mixture of melancholy, sadness, longing, nostalgia, happiness and love as well as an expression of joy of life. The trio Fado, founded in Berlin, plays its music with enthusiasm. Thus, for the film „Night Train to Lisbon“ with Bruno Ganz and Jeremy Irons in the main characters, they performed the song „nunca é tarde“ written by Trio Fado soloist Maria Carvalho…

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Waldzitherpunk (DEU)

Each member of the band is a multi-instrumentalist. WALDZITHERPUNK is a folk music group that uses the language of music to touch the roots of German culture. They will perform romantic, rebellious, revolutionary and contemporary works that fit any musical epoch. They will perform together with the forest zither, one of the forgotten instruments of Germany, which is often used during nature walks, and other instruments.

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LUIKU (UKR)

Luiku is an exciting world beats band from Kyiv, Ukraine. Their passionate music is inspired by Mediterranean, Ukrainian and Balkan musical cultures, and features electronic and analog percussion, powerful brass, magical female voices, accordion and more. The band leader and songwriter is the well-known Ukrainian musician and producer Dmytro Tsyperdyuk.

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Hasan Yükselir (TUR)

Composer and soloist HASAN YÜKSELİR is considered one of the most outstanding and many-sided artists of his country. With his extraordinarily powerful voice, he will arrange traditional Anatolian folk songs in classical-western form and jazz versions, sometimes poetic-romantic, sometimes epic-epic, in his own unique musical style…

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DIKANDA (POL)

DIKANDA is a music band of international renown, playing „world music“. They come from Szczecin, Poland. In their artistic work DIKANDA promotes the authenticity of style – searching for new trends therefore most of their works are original compositions. They draw their musical inspiration from traditional folk sounds of the broadly defined Orient – from the Balkans, through Israel, Kurdistan, Belarus to India.

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Vural Güler (TUR)

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…

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