Festivalito
Into this wood

August 2-4, 2024

Gros-Fays, 5555 Bievre

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A music weekend with

- Festive music

- Early music

- Music from elsewhere

- Music traditions from the Ardennes & from far away

- Argentinian Tango

- Flamenco

- Latino

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FRIDAY party SATURDAY discovery SUNDAY dream OPENING concert Friday at 7.30 pm

 

Fanfare 

A trance band inspired by traditional trance music, with a contemporary edge to the sound. The music starts from simple ideas and repeats itself, gradually transforming itself. The trance takes shape and transforms, taking the listener into a frenzied dance. Grégoire Tirtiaux on baritone saxophone and guembri, Giovanni Di Domenico on keyboards, Cristi Joza on drums. Promising !

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clarinet on a DJ set

Drawing on Celtic and Eastern European traditions, Alizarina offers a subtle blend of acoustic sounds and electronic vigour. Poetic and committed lyrics are sprinkled throughout this instrumental universe. The result is powerful music that is resolutely alive and dreamlike. Accompanied by his clarinet, Alizarina will get you dancing, raising your fist, and enjoying his live electro set with klezmer, balkan & gypsy influences.

This baritone sax solo is a polymorphous wave moving through the ocean of improvised music.

Grégoire Tirtiaux uses some of the many textures that can emerge from his baritone saxophone to bring out an echo of his nature in music and in life. The music can be travelling, meditative, polyphonic, imbued with the sounds of nature; it listens to the present time and all the vibrations that the air carries. The wind is everywhere, and music follows.

solo

A cycle of songs from around the world for voice and barrel organ, presented by Lieselot De Wilde. The project's particular mission is to promote female singers, female songwriters in particular, or songs that contribute to enriching the history of women through time. The series of videos entitled "Around the world in 72 songs" follows the journalist Nellie Bly who, in 1889/90, was the first woman to hold the record for running around the world in 72 days. A real journey!

voice & viola da gamba

The viol player Romina Lischka, specialist in early music, and the Tunisian singer, dancer, poet and actress Ghalia Benali, ambassador of Arab music, join forces in this fascinating project. In combining for instance music by Marin Marais with classical Arab maqams on Arab poetry and with classical Indian Dhrupad ragas, they reveal the universal truth in music and poetry of different cultural and historical contexts and grasp their common spirit. A dialogue that takes the soul on a journey back to the first prayer that ascended... 

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quintet

The finest Belgian jazz violinists! With the emphasis not on the guitar but on the violin, the quintet turns the codes of Django Reinhardt's Hot Club de France-style swing on their head. Les Violons de Bruxelles revisit the repertoire of gypsy jazz, gypsy music and choro. Melodies somewhere between jazz and chamber music, combining sumptuous improvised moments, classical arrangements and gypsy and Latin swerves. A redefinition in motion!

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Open stage, depending on who is willing to share a few songs.

sarod

Amazed by Amjad Ali Khanpour's playing, he put aside his violin and guitar and began to learn the sarod, an Indian musical instrument whose metallic touch allows particularly original 'slide' effects. A bewitching sound on a Sunday morning. Eager to meet and open to all musical cultures, Asad has given many classical raga concerts as well as experimenting with improvisation and other forms of music.

& Erik Bosgraaf

Let's take a look at traditional Polish folk music through the eyes, or rather the pen, of Georg Philipp Telemann! In the eighteenth century, he was a court composer in Sorau and wrote down on a notepad all the melodies he heard in the taverns. It's a unique medium that launches the ensemble into an auditory imagination, an educated guess that brings this music from three centuries ago back to life. A virtuoso in his field, flutist Erik Bosgraaf's playing comes across as effortless and improvisational.

violin, guitar & voice

Ever since he picked up his first instrument, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Tcha Limberger has been one of the rare world-class musicians to be accepted and respected in a style of music that is not culturally his own. His approach to almost-forgotten traditional music has made him one of the most prominent figures in the folk music of the Carpathian Basin. "Entirely made of music", "the polytechnic king of gypsy music", his fellow musicians even describe him as "the fifth element".