In the presentation session held at the Casa do Alentejo, in Lisbon, the organization revealed more details about the 23rd edition of the festival that annually, under the motto “Music with a spirit of adventure”, attracts thousands of people to the Alentejo coast. .
With 15 concerts, Africa is the origin of more than a third of the artists invited to this year’s edition of the festival, organized by the Municipality of Sines.
Guinea-Bissau will have the largest delegation in the history of the FMM, with the confirmations of Tabanka Djaz, Eneida Marta and Super Mama Djombo, who join three legendary groups from other Portuguese-speaking African countries: Os Tubarões (Cape Verde), Black Africa (Sao Tome and Principe) and Ghorwane (Mozambique).
The African delegation also includes the French-Moroccan Bab L’Bluz and the Tuareg band Tinariwen, the Senegalese Lass, the Ghanaian Alotge Oho&His Sounds of Joy, the Congolese group Kin’Gongolo Kiniata and the Madalitso Band, which makes its debut in Malawi at a festival .
One of the greatest artists on the African continent, the Nigerian Nneka, will be in Sines and the singer Rokia Koné and the band Bamba Wassoulou Groove will arrive from Mali.
Portugal will be present with nine artists: Carminho, who will debut in Sines, Maria João&Carlos Bica Quarteto, whose presence in Sines was postponed due to the pandemic, Tó Trips, Expresso Transatlântico, The girl, Rita Vian, Rita Braga, B Fachada and RAIA, who pay homage to the viola-campaniça.
Already in April, the organization had announced 16 names in the programming, namely the Brazilian Chico César. From Brazil, Céu and Gilsons will also be present, along with the Mexicans Lila Downs and Silvana Estrada, the Cubans Cimafunk and the Jamaicans Inna de Yard and Brushy One String.
The festival’s European contingent includes Spanish Rodrigo Cuevas, French Brama, Franco-Venezuelan La Chica, Estonian Mari Kalkun and British The Selecter.
The Syrian-Lebanese duo Bedouin Burger makes its debut in the Middle East, which also includes the project Alright Mela Meets Santoo and the return of the group Al-Qasar, in a meeting with the Sudanese artist AlSarah.
It is the Leenalchi group, from South Korea, that makes the longest journey to be in the FMM.
Winner of the Best Cultural Program category in the last Iberian Festival Awards, the FMM will also have a program of parallel initiatives, still to be known.
This year, the FMM will be present in the town of Porto Covo between July 22 and 24 and in the city of Sines between July 25 and 29.
Source: Observadora
