Janita Salomé opens World Music Festival in Porto Covo – Newspapers Hardmusica

The 17th edition of the World Music Festival (MMF) today opens doors in Porto Covo with a sign that promises 47 concerts for the nine days of the Festival

The 17th edition of the World Music Festival (MMF) opens today and as is the tradition with a Portuguese.
Janita Salomé will start the hostilities that for nine days of music, will lead World Music Sines and Porto Covo.

will be at 19:00, which Janita act in the Alentejo village of Porto Covo, followed by the Forabandit groups coming from Occitania / Turkey / Lebanon by 21:45 and by 23:15, the Esko Järvelä Epic Male Band, arriving from Finland.

And as has become usual in the FMM Portuguese musicians will ensure presence throughout the festival, with the collective Simply Rockers Sound System, acting at 20 and 21, the singer Ricardo Ribeiro, on 22, the multi-instrumentalist Bruno Pernadas, to 24, the Capicua rapper, also on the 24th and on the same day four DJs rooted Sao Tome, Blacksea not Maya and Marfox

“ From Africa come the most famous names of the festival poster. – Salif Keita Toumani Diabaté and his son and Sidiki, the three Malian and Nigerian Orlando Julius (accompanied by the British The Heliocentrics), among others – which this year decided to bet on new names and more urban projects, some led by women “, reads the press release.

But the festival does not live music. The FMM offers workshops for children, “masterclasses” for musicians and music students, the traditional Fair of Books and Records and also the projection of the film “Asylum – The Power of Potiguara Indians” on 22 and “I Love Kuduro “on the 25th.