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Songlines Encounters Festival
Posted on July 14th, 2011 in Recent Posts by Alexandra Petropoulos.
Our inaugural Songlines Encounters Festival at London’s Kings Place last month was a great success. The three days featured talks, workshops, free foyer events, and films as well as plenty of concerts. For those of you who missed the festival, Haydn Wheeler was there to capture it all.
Efren Lopez from the opening concert featuring Lopez with Stelios Petrakis and Bijan Chemirani
Vocalist Cigdem Aslan with the band She'koyokh who packed out the hall the first evening
Harmonica monsters Svang, playing regular mouth organs plus what look like a toaster and an over-sized Blackberry. Great artists and very nice guys
Singer Katya Tompos with Sondorgo. Her performance of Zajdi Zajdi was stunning
Fado singer Carminho - probably the most popular gig - although here in a rather severe pose. This was her UK debut
Alex Wilson who performed with a brand new trio, plus a guest kora player
Pre-concert chat with Aron Eredics (L) and Attila Buzas of Sondorgo. A tambura demonstration is on its way
Meg Hamilton of She'koyokh.
One of the great foyer groups - Peyman Heydarian performing Kurdish music on santur
Some nimble footwork to Peyman Heydarian and his band
Carminho with her musicians taking a bow after their wonderful set
Hungarian band Sondorgo in action
Scottish singer-guitarist Ewan McLennan who won a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award this year for best newcomer
Songlines editor-in-chief Simon Broughton in conversation with Carminho
Festival-goers trying their hand – or rather, their voice – at Bulgarian singing
She'koyokh's accordionist Paul Tkachenko
A great turnout for our inaugural festival
She'koyokh's Paul Tkachenko getting animated
