World music festival PORTA is the longest running, largest Professional World music festival in Latvia since 2000.

The role of the festival in latvian cultural life has already been recognized and supported by Riga City Council Culture Department, Latvian Culture Capital Foundation, the embassies and international cultural foundations.

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WorLd music festival PORTA 12November/December

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WorLd music festival PORTA 12November/December

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• 12th annual festival PORTA will offer its viewers a wide range of geographi-cally and stylistically different programs, inviting in concerts in Riga and Ventspils to meet with the bright musicians from Georgia, France, Russia, Great Britain, Madagascar and Latvia.

• The festival will showcase docu-mentaries about various world cultures, traditions and music.

• The festival will conclude with a joint project, where the film and theatre mu-sic of world famous georgian composer Giya Kancheli will get a new life in the concert of georgian trio THE SHIN „Extraor-dinary exhibition”, in which symphonic music, ethno-jazz, georgian polyphonic chants and passionate Caucasian dances, merging together will take away into ex-traordinary world of sound and move.

FESTIVALOFFERS

WorLd music festival PORTA 12November/December

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Wednesday, NOVEMBER 1 20.00 Riga, “Palladium” concert hall

Peter Nalitch and Friends (Russia)•

Wednesday, NOVEMBER 7 19.00 Riga, Musical theatre “Artelis” World music film showcase:

• Black and White in Colour (Czech republic)• Intangible Asset Number 82 (Australia, Korea)

22.00 Festival club

Thursday, NOVEMBER 8 19.00 Riga, “Palladium” concert hallConcert

Eliza Carthy band (Great Britain)• KILEMA (Madagascar•

Friday, NOVEMBER 9 10.45–12.30 Riga, Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music

Workshop of • tvisongur singing in Iceland

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Friday, NOVEMBER 9 19.00 Riga, “Palladium” concert hall

Árstíðir (Iceland)• Moussu T e lei Jovents (France) •

19.00 Ventspils, “Jūras vārti” concert hallKILEMA (Madagascar)•

Saturday, DECEMBER 1 18.00 Riga, Congress Hall Musical performance

Extraordinary exhibition •[Kancheli. Georgia. Latvia.]

Eliza Carthy band

Eliza Carthy – Violin, Lead Vocals, Guitar, AccordianBethany Porter – Cello, Vocals Jennifer Hill – Bass, VocalsAdrian Dolan – PianoWilly Molleson – Drums, Vocals

Scion of English-folk royal family, re-inventing contemporary pop music from a tradi-tional viewpoint.

Winner of innumerable accolades, Eliza Carthy has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists including Paul Weller, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Nick Cave, Billy Bragg and Bob Neuwirth. More than most, Eliza Carthy has revitalised folk music and captured the most hardened of dissenters with intelligent, boundary-crossing performances. She grew up immersed in the world of traditional music and still divides her time between touring and recording with her legendary parents, Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson as well as engaging in numerous solo and band projects including the groundbreaking Imagined Village, which boldly re-examined the concept of what constitutes an English musical identity in the multicultural 21st century. Eliza Carthy describes herself simply as a modern English musician, which, as she proves, covers a lot of ground.

Un i ted K ingdomNOVEMBER 8 | 19.00 Riga, “Palladium” concert hall

Moussu T e lei Jovents

BLU – Guitar, Electric Guitar, Banjo DELI K – Percussions DENIS – Drums TATOU – Lead Vocal

Occitan-Brazilian blues inspired by the musical melting pot of ‘30s Marseilles.

Like other great seaports such as Liverpool and New Orleans, Marseilles has long been a musical melting-pot of intercontinental influences, albeit one whose international profile is not so well recognised. Moussu T e lei Jovents was founded by singer Tatou and guitarist and banjo player Blu, known local heroes from the Massilia Sound System, pioneers of Occitan-speaking raga-muffin. They’ve turned for inspiration to the Marseilles of the 1930s, when the air was humming with songs of the Provencal, operettas, blues, jazz and sounds of the Caribbean, North African and Brazilian music and more. This is the background for their indefinably familiar-sounding songs redolent with both the smell of the sea and the smoky intimacy of a harbour-front dance hall permeated with the rhythms of the universal blues.

F R A N C ENOVEMBER 9 | 19.00 Riga, “Palladium” concert hall

KILEMA

Randrianantoandro ClementRandrianantoandro Telesphore ErnestRafael Torres FernandezLuis Camino Maresma

The Madagascan musician Kilema was immersed in the traditional music of Madagascar as a child, making his own instruments which he taught himself to play. Through this he soon mastered the marovany, kabosy, katsa and in 1993 moved to France where he became a member of the Justin Vali Trio, re-cording for Peter Gabriel’s Real World label and appearing at Womad festivals across the world. In 1997 when the trio broke up Kilema vowed to become an ambassador for traditional Madagascan music.Kilema expresses his music with an irrepressibly cheerful, positive spirit, the same way the Malagasy people deal with the difficulties of their daily lives in a country which has so little, and yet enjoys life so much. A master of the Marovany, Kabosy and Katsà Kilema carries the magical, rhythmic soul of Madagascar with him, wherever he goes.

M A DAG A S C A RNOVEMBER 8 | 19.00 Riga, “Palladium” concert hall

NOVEMBER 9 | 19.00 Ventspils, “Jūras vārti” concert hall

Árstíðir

Daniel Audunson – Guitar ,vocalsGunnar Mar Jakobsson – Guitar ,vocalsRagnar Olavsson – Baritone guitar & vocalsHallgrimur Jonas Jensson – Cello, vocalsJon Elisson – Piano ,vocals Karl James Pestka – Violin, vocals

Árstíðir is a vocal-based indie band from Reykjavík with a sound unique to the Icelandic music scene. All six members are distinguished players known from various bands in the Reykjavík soundscape. Over the two and a half years since Árstíðir’s formation the band has released two records praised by trendsetting music critics, had two number-one hits on Icelandic radio, made several TV ap-pearances in Iceland, Sweden, Russia and the Czech Republic, and played sold out venues all over Europe. Aside from their trademark vocal harmonies, it is Árstíðir’s instrumentation that set them apart, effusing a warm tide of resonant acoustic and baritone guitars, virtuosic piano, and melismatic strings. The result is an unusually wide sound spectrum, further emphasized by the impressive vocal range of all six members. Consequently, Árstíðir’s music is a rare composition of the clear-cut and the complex. Their songs are easy to fall in love with yet mixed with diverse influences such as progressive rock, indie, classical chambermusic, and Icelandic folk music.

I C E L A N DNOVEMBER 9 | 19.00 Riga, “Palladium” concert hall

EXTRAORDINARY EXHIBITION[Kancheli.Georgia.Latvia.]

Zaza Miminoshvili – guitar Zurab Gagnidze – bass, vocalMamuka Gaganidze – vocal, percussionsRaymond Alan Kaczynski – percussionsIlias Mirzayev – arrangements, keyboardLiepāja Amber sound symphony orchestra. Aleksandre Chumburidze – dance

Liepaja Amber sound orchestra, conductor Atvars LakstīgalaNormunds Šnē – oboeJānis Ozols and vocal groupArnolds Kārklis – electric guitarViktors Runtulis – director

The festival will conclude with a joint project, where the film and theatre music of world famous georgian composer Giya Kancheli will get a new life in the concert of georgian trio THE SHIN „Extraordinary exhibition”, in which symphonic music, ethno-jazz, georgian polyphonic chants and passionate Caucasian dances, merging together will take away into extraordinary world of sound and move. The author of the idea is the musician of ethojazz trio The Shin Zaza Miminoshvili. He emphasizes Kancheli music deep roots in Georgian folklore, while acknowledging that it belongs to the world culture.

Kancheli’s music is multifaceted: it is a majestic and fragile, passionate, full of humor, but at the same time it permeates the bright sadness. It is mysterious, but at the same time translucently light. It sounds like a marathon of a little man, of a dreamer, as the monologue of a lost son. And finally, for every Georgian it sounds as the Motherland. Similar feelings are familiar also to Latvians, therefore “Extraordinary Exhibition” together with Georgian artists will be opened by Liepaja Amber Sound Orchestra, Latvian singers, musicians and dancers.

The Shin and Festival Porta first met several years ago, now creative friendship asfollows-up with even wider and deeper cooperation. One of The Shin’s intentions is to make symphonic music more accessible and understandable for the audience and it fits perfectly in tune with the efforts of World music festival “ Porta” - to enrich classical music genres with breath of world of music and offer it to a wider audience. As promised by the organizers, in musical performance “Extraordinary exhibition”, everybody participate - Orchestra, conductor, dancers and also the audience.

The Shin: “This project will be a musical performance, which involves many actors, but the protagonist is the Music of Master Giya Kancheli “.

The concert “Extraordinary exhibition” is the first concert in the project “The port of cultures” concert. In frames of this project Liepaja Symphony Orchestra concert will perform together worldwide recognized world-music groups.

G E O R G I AL A T V I ADECEMBER 1 | 18.00 Riga, Congress hall

Peter Nalitch and Friends

Peter Nalitch – voice, guitar, piano,accordeon Yura Kostenko – saxophone, flute, pianoSergey Sokolov – domra, guitar, voiceKostya Shvecov – guitarDima Simonov – bassDeniss Marinkin – percussion

Peter Nalitch is the first Russian musician who became famous through the internet. In the spring 2007 in YouTube was placed an amateur video “Guitar” in which an unknown good-looking guy with deep Slavic accent and velvet singing “I’ve never BEEN LONELY” - a simple song with a contagious melody. This entry was instantly noticed and singer - a former architecture student from Moscow Peter Nalitch soon won the title of “First Singing Russian internet phenomenon”.Since Autumn 2007 he began to perform in concerts - and even if all his songs could be downloaded for free on the Internet before his concerts in various Moscow clubs, tickets were already sold out two weeks in advance.His music blends gypsy romance with Latin rhythms and rampage of Balcans. Peter Nalitch is currently popular singer in Russia and abroad. But his first song record has not yet managed to beat anyone - YouTube clip is watched by more than four million Internet users.

R U S S I ANOVEMBER 1 | 20.00 Riga, “Palladium” concert hall

WORLD MUSIC

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WORLD MUSIC film film

screenings

Black and White in Colour / Cernobila v barve

Genre: DocumentaryProduction Company: Arcimboldo Productions Limited (UK)Co-Production Company: Czech Television (Czech Republic)Producer: David CharapCamera: Marek JichaEditor: David CharapComposer: Vera BíláRecorded: 1999Duration: 59’

Through the life and music of the singer Vera Bílá, the viewer is trans-ported to the world of the Gypsies in today’s Czech republic. The film fol-lows Vera on a search for her musical roots and to find a bride for her son. The journey takes her from the impoverished townships in Slovakia to the concert stage in Paris. Along the way director Mira Erdevicki manages to create an intimate portrait of an extraordinary individual that is sympa-thetic but never sentimental, and often very funny indeed.

NOVEMBER 7 | 19.00 Riga, Musical theatre “Artelis”

Intangible Asset Number 82

Genre: Documentary/ Music |Production Company: In The Sprocket Productions (Australia, Korea) Producer: Emma Franz Director: Emma Franz Camera: Emma Franz Editor: Daniel Kerr Author: Emma FranzMusical style: Jazz, Pansori, Korean Shamanistic Sinawi Ritual and Improvised music Recorded: South Korea, Australia, 2009 Duration: 90’

Australian drummer Simon Barker searches for enigmatic Korean shaman and master musi-cian, Kim Seok-Chul. His journey becomes a rite of passage, when meaningful encounters with engaging and exotic artists prepare Simon for a fortuitous meeting with the shaman. Personal transformations result from inspiration found on the journey, and Simon’s philosophical search for the tools of self-expression provides intimate insight into the life of a creative musician. As Simon and the artists immersed in his pursuit discover their growing influence on each other, they move naturally towards collaboration, a testimony to the universal language of music. After debuting at the Sao Paulo International Film Festival in Brazil, where it was a finalist in the audience vote for Best Documentary, Intangible Asset Number 82 won BEST DOCUMENTARY at the Durban International Film Festival in South Africa, Best Sound in Documentary at the 2009 AFI Awards Australia, and was voted runner-up for most popular Documentary at the Melbourne International Film Festival. It has gone on to screen in competition at some of the worlds most respected film and documentary festivals, including AFI SilverDocs and South By South West in the U.S.A., Hot Docs Canada, and others in places as diverse as Argentina, Japan, Chile, China, Korea, India, Egypt and Israel.

NOVEMBER 7 | 19.00 Riga, Musical theatre “Artelis”