Renato Borghetti
Gaia Cuatro
Tango Negro Trio & Juan Carlos Caceres
Javier Girotto & Aires Tango
Maria Kalaniemi
Didier Laloy & S-Tres
Martin Lubenov
Mostar Sevdah Reunion
Danças Ocultas
Riccardo Tesi & Banditaliana
Zamballarana

RENATO BORGHETTI (on tour)
Gaucho Power at its best

Accordion virtuoso Renato Borghetti is the star among the new folk musicians from Rio Grande do Sul in Southern Brazil. The charismatic gaucho has revised, adapted and modernized many of the native sounds of his home country. His fast and playful tunes combine the sounds of the Argentinian pampa with central European, Italian and French elements into a sparkling, contemporary mixture of Tango, Polka, TexMex and Musette. >more

TANGO NEGRO TRIO & JUAN CARLOS CACERES (on tour)
Tango Negro

Caceres takes us on a trip in time to give back to tango it’s strong popular music roots. At the end of this journey we will find Murga, cousin of the Brazilian march, Argentinian Milonga, African Candombe, Cuban Habanera – the black soul of tango thant tends to be forgotten and repressed in Argentina. With his smoky and lascivious voice Caceres sings about life in Buenos Aires, of homesickness and exile and the wounds of time, thus creating an irredescent web of musical-historical cross-connections and socio-political reality. >more

GAIA CUATRO
A puzzling encounter between Argentina and Japan on the frontier of Jazz

The fiery and intense character of Argentine music, mixed with the refinement of Japanese musical tradition provide the raw materials for this exceptional quartet, created from the meeting of two major symbols of Japanese jazz and two inventive Argentine musicians from the European scene. >more

JAVIER GIROTTO & AIRES TANGO (on tour)
Tango Jazz

Born in Cordoba, Argentina, saxophonist and composer Xavier Girotto has been on top of Italian and European jazz for many years. Since 2000 he has been a member of the Orhcestre National de Jazz de Paris. In 1994 he founded his own quartet Aires Tango whose “treated tango” – an amusing and passionate fusion of Argentinian tango and jazz improvisation - immediately became a big success in Italy. >more

MARIA KALANIEMI
The queen of Finnish Accordion

Maria Kalaniemi, a master of free-bass button accordion, is one of Finland's leading contemporary accordionists. Once a member of pioneering groups Niekku and Aldargaz, from the Sibelius Acdemy Folk Music Department, where she now teaches, her roots are in folk and classical music but her sights and abilities go far beyond existing styles. >more

DIDIER LALOY & S-TRES
The Belgian revival of diatonic accordion

Didier Laloy was 13 when he first touched a diatonic accordion, since that time he has grown into a master of the instrument and composer and is considered as one of the most active representatives of the diatonic accordion revival in Europe. >more

MARTIN LUBENOV (on tour)
Sofia Mahala - Balkan Grooves

He is the new star shining on Vienna’s accordion sky. At the age of only 28 years, Martin Lubenov is already among the top Balkan-accordionists. With breathtaking virtuosity and playful elegance he combines Balkan Roma music with shades of swing, modern jazz, tango nuevo, salsa and musette and, doing so, pays honour to it like Astor Piazzolla did to tango and Richard Galliano did to musette. >more

MOSTAR SVEDAH REUNION
Café Sevdah

Mostar Sevdah Reunion is an exquisite group of artists sharing the same passion. Some might say that they live for Sevdah and that could be the only cause of their existence. To decode and to represent this over 400 year old traditional music from Bosnia and Herzegovina is a difficult task to cope with. >more

DANÇAS OCULTAS
Four accordions from the edge of Europe

"Danças Ocultas" are four young accordionsts from Agueda near Porto who are among the most innovative and most exciting representatives of contemporary Portuguese music. For some years now they have been rising on the international world music scene – with an apparently very simple concept: quiet, lyrical, more or less traditional, with only four diatonic accordions. >more

RICCARDO TESI & BANDITALIANA (on tour)
Un ballo liscio

Riccardo Tesi may well be called the epicentre of the Italian folk- and worldmusic-scene. For 20 years he has been one of the most imaginative players of the organetto, the diatonic button accordion. As an ethnomusicologist he has explored the liscio, the waltz of his native tuscany, the musical traditions of southern Italy, the Balkans, Madagscar, Africa or India as well as jazz or Nino Rota’s film music. With his Banditaliana he melts all those elements into a colourful, refined and easily dancable art music... >more

ZAMBALLARANA
Fresh winds from the „Island of Beauty“

Zamballarana are a group of young enthusiasts from Pigna, an idyllic little town in the mountains of Western Corsica, the wild and mysterious “Island of Beauty”. Founded in 1997 by Jérome Casalonga, the band gives the traditional island sounds a global touch, mixing them with other contemporary and mediterranean musical forms. >more