World Music Festival Bratislava 2023

The musically diverse World Music Festival Bratislava is coming in 2023 with another offer of exciting events. In the historic center of the Bratislava Old town the variety of world music will be offered to the audience from 17^th to 20^th of August.

At the opening concert, you will have an opportunity to see exotic creole music of
TI´KANIKI from the island of Réunion and popular Slovak band LA3NO CUBANO.

The concerts at Bratislava’s Klarisky church will feature top performers to enrich the Cultural summer in the town. You can immerse in the deep meditative ethno-jazz project of LÓPEZ – BARBAS, whose album Atlas led the world music charts. Their spellbinding compositions will invite to explore the music of the Middle East and Mediterranean. The Friday night concert event will be complemented by the new Estonian sensation DUO RUUT and a new discovery of the Slovak scene, ONDRO A KAMARÁTI. This band follows Katarína Málikova’s exquisite Pustvopol project. On Sunday evening at the same venue the festival will offer a traditional stringed instrument from the Far East performed by the Korean musician SOONA PARK and the unique group BARRUT, representatives of the captivating Occitan vocal tradition. 

Special DANCE Parties with groovy music will be presented at V – Club. The trio FANFARA STATION will kick up the stage with an unconventional “brass band” combined with electronics, Tunisian rhythms and the singing of the charismatic Marzouk Mejri. From Belgium and Burkina Faso the musicians of the band ABOUBAKAR TRAORÉ & BALIMA will bring unadulterated energy together with authentic African instruments such as n’goni, balafon and djembe. The music is alluring mixture of west-African musical tradition infused with jazz vibes to hip-hop beats, from ancestral ‘chants’ of Mandingo Griots to contemporary approach.

As a part of the showcase concerts, startling Slovak projects will be presented at Teatro Colorato – the vocal group NEHA! and band DIS IS MARKĒTA.