L'Auditori

15è. Festival de Músiques del Món

Music is one of the most universal phenomena that exist because it is intrinsically linked to human beings and, therefore, is integrated in all cultures. It is a way of expressing ourselves that we have used since ancient times in order to communicate emotions and sentiments, to describe events and transmit knowledge or ideas. It is therefore an essential tool for us to be able to understand one another and to strengthen contact and respect between different cultures.

This is exactly what the World Festival of Music has been doing for the last 15 years, an event that has welcomed groups from all over the planet with the aim of creating links between different realities and so allow us to get to know, through melodies and rhythms, cultural traits that are remote to us, and to encourage the exchange of ideas.

In this way, and following the line initiated last year with a change of management, the Festival has been dedicated to a specific area: Black Africa, this year adding Maghreb, the northern most part of this great continent. Therefore, unlike the last edition, - when the spotlight was above all on the Mali artists– the performances to be seen on the stage of L’Auditori will include great musicians from countries such as the Congo, Burkina Faso or Morocco, among others.

Artists who have emigrated from their countries and settled in Barcelona will also be heard, so cultivating musical projects that are a true sample of integration, the sum and fusion of their roots with western influences absorbed during these years of association.

We hope you will accompany us on this enlightening musical journey!

Judit Llimós
Director of the Modern Music Department