Artist Genre Category: Global

About 10 years ago JELENA POPRŽAN started performing with the duo CATCH-POP STRING-STRONG, and built her international reputation as an imaginative arranger, expressive vocal artist and entertainer with comedic talent and political italian commitment further with the world-music quartet MADAME BAHEUX and … read more »

Julia Lacherstorfer has always drawn strength and inspiration from the musical experiences of her childhood and from the folk music tradition of her home region. She rediscovers the immediacy and freedom typical of folk music later in improvised music rather than in … read more »

Meet Karrar Alsaadi, a talented singer and composer from Baghdad, now based in Vienna. His music beautifully blends jazz with Iraqi influences, reflecting his deep love for music since his upbringing in the vibrant soundscape of 1990s Iraq. Karrar made history as … read more »

Klaus Falschlunger, studied from 1991 to 1995 Indian classical music and sitar in New Delhi and Varanasi in Northern India. His musical approaches and experiences blend subtly in his compositions and combine the spirit of Indian music and the various colours of … read more »

Based in Salzburg, The Klezmer Connection, offers an exhilerant programme of Klezmer and Yiddish songs. The musicians combine traditional and modern formes of Klezmer. On a constant balancing act between joy of life, sadness and sensuality, virtuosic sound paintings emerge. The bandmembers of The Klezmer … read more »

Kurdophone, a Vienna-based band founded by Omid Darvish, a vocalist, tanbur player, and composer, in 2017, has been gaining recognition for its exceptional compositions and arrangements that fuse Kurdish-Iranian music with other music genres. The band comprises a diverse group of musicians, … read more »

“Bringing Alpine folk music into the new century.”- That’s the motto of the two Styrian musicians MARIE-THERES HÄRTEL and DEELINDE adopted a couple of years ago with the formation of  NETNAKISUM. It raised a few eyebrows. And not just in Austria. With … read more »

Anyone interested in music made in Austria has probably heard him play in one way or another already. Be it at a concert with Alicia Edelweiss, the Nino aus Wien or Soap&Skin, on a record by Oska or Wanda, at the Volkstheater … read more »

The quartet is musically open to all genres, which shows in both the repertoire and the artistic expression of this band: Rousing folk songs from Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Macedonia with innovative arrangements and their own clever compositions, combined with songs by  … read more »

Mamadou Diabate was born into a traditional musician family (Sambla people) in Burkina Faso (West Africa), with a long tradition of practising the profession of story telling and music making. At the age of 5 he started his professional training with his father Penegue Diabate, … read more »