Many great artists, female artists and bands of the international folk, jazz and world music scene are with German agencies...
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Month: May 2022
Tradition-conscious and keen to experiment
by Birgit Ellinghaus | 31 May 2022
On the small Korean peninsula, there is a musical landscape to be discovered that is a good six thousand years old and whose sound traces...
Read more ...Frank Baier
by Michael Zachcial | 23 May 2022
I first heard Frank Baier in my parents' kitchen in the north of Duisburg. It was Sunday morning, I was fifteen...
Read more ...Divanhana
by Willi Klopottek | 16 May 2022
Currently, it is one band in particular that impresses internationally as Bosnia and Herzegovina's musical ambassador and...
Read more ...Wader unsung
by folker redaktion | 26 May 2022
And another round birthday is coming up. Marc Liese from Hanover has been honoured with a special kind of...
Read more ...Diverse, exuberant, freedom-loving
by Stefan Sell | 16 May 2022
Whether they play at the Festival du monde Arabe in Montreal or in Shanghai, in Freiburg's pedestrian zone or at the Black...
Read more ...To the point #2: Fjarill
by Erik Prochnow | 10 May 2022
"... It is poetic and stands above the word." "Music has no gender. It is poetic and stands above the word," says...
Read more ...folker.world
by folker redaktion | 24 May 2022
The folker publishing house is venturing into a passionate experiment. The goal: a digital online platform that is always informed about new...
Read more ...Werema M. Chacha
by folker redaktion | 24 May 2022
"Let's go back to our roots. The modernisation of Tanzanian music does not have to mean that we have to change our...
Read more ...Ukraine
by folker redaktion | 11 May 2022
The musician, DJ, producer and author Yuriy Gurzhy, who comes from Kharkiv in Ukraine, has lived in Berlin since the nineties....
Read more ...Melodiva and the Women's Music Office Frankfurt
by Hans-Jürgen Lenhart | 10 May 2022
It is no secret that women are underrepresented in the music scene, especially instrumentalists and...
Read more ...To the point #4: Sarah Lesch
by Erik Prochnow | 10 May 2022
When it comes to her profession, she becomes energetic: "My job is to make music that touches people. I want beautiful...
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