At only 24 years old, Momi Maiga is already a virtuoso on his instrument, the kora - an African harp-lute. The Senegalese singer is a curious and self-taught composer with a surprising musical sensitivity that stands out for his vocal fluency. 

Immersed in the rich musical heritage of West Africa, the young African musician grew up in the Casamance region of southern Senegal. At the age of six, he started playing the kora and began his career alongside renowned musicians from the Cissokho Family. Following the historical legacy of the griot, which goes back centuries, his artistic heritage is connected to Mandingo traditions and repertoires. 

In ETNOMUSIC 22 he presents "Nio" which means "soul" in Mandinka. In this work, the young Senegalese artist combines jazz, Afrobeat and flamenco in his compositions performed in his native language and in Wòlof, another of Senegal's own languages. Momi Maiga is part of a new generation of West African musicians who are interested in the prominent issues of our time and who use poetic forms to spread messages of joy and peace.

Momi Maiga (kora and vocals), Carlos Montfort (violins and vocals), Aleix Tobias (drums and percussion), Marçal Ayats (cello and vocals). 

ETNOMUSIC IN THE VILLAGES

MOMI MAIGA. 15th July. Plaça d'Espanya (Carcaixent). 23:00 h

Besarabia is a musical project born in Valencia that is inspired by the tradition of the Mediterranean and the Balkans. The group was created in 2013 and since then its members Heide Erbrich, Jaume Pallardó and Eva Mª Domingo have developed a very peculiar style of performing traditional songs. They have also expanded their repertoire with their own compositions that fuse Balkan and Mediterranean sounds and more modern elements, with lyrics in Valencian. In 2014 they released a work with six songs, and in 2017 they published their first album "Ritmes, trenes i gats" (Mesdemil). 

In 2021 they released "Animal Republic" (Segell Microscopi), a work that includes their own interpretations of songs from the Balkan and klezmer tradition and eleven newly composed and unpublished songs of their own. The trio's second album was selected as one of the Top 20 in the prestigious World Music Chart Europe (November 2021) and was awarded as 'Millor disc de fusió i mestissatge' in the IV Premis Carles Santos de la música valenciana. 

Heidi Erbrich (violin and viola), Jaume Pallardó (oud, laouto and baglama), Eva Mª Domingo (voice, darbuka, daf, tambourine and davul).

ETHNOMUSIC IN THE VILLAGES

BESARABIA: 05th August. Plaça de Sant Vicent (Bocairent). 23:00 h

BESARABIA: 02nd September. Plaza Gran Valencia (Torres Torres). 23:00 h.
 

Ana Alcaide is a musical explorer of hidden treasures and ancient traditions, who transports us to distant lands, to ancestral times and magical places. The artist proposes an invitation to build bridges between cultures and a call for tolerance, as a vehicle "to reach beauty, dialogue and encounter". 

Ritual, the sixth album by this singer from Toledo and player of the nyckelharpa (a traditional instrument of Swedish origin) is conceived as a mystical journey, as a hymn to the connecting power of everyday actions, born of her interest in Persian poetry and her encounter with the Iranian singer Reza Shayesteh.

"The greatness of a small everyday gesture, a place to return to, the smell of musk on my clothes. Sufi mystic verses, sounds of fish patches, dissolving in the purity of a colour. A meeting more than 15 years ago, a foreign city, an intimate and profound journey... The power of RITUAL. The diary of our life is written with the stories of our small daily gestures".
 
Ana Alcaide (vocals, nyckelharpa, tanbour and atmospheres), Reza Shayesteh (vocals, tanbour, setar and daf), Bill Cooley (ud, psaltery, percussions and atmospheres), Kaveh Sarvarian (ney and tombak), Sandra Rico (dance). 

Under the theme "Roots and Wings", ETNOMUSIC the folk and world music festivall, one of the L'ETNO trademarks, comes back anfter the pandemic period. For L'ETNO, this means returning to the usual seating capacity, to proximity, and in short, to the warmth to make concerts a moment of encounter and enjoyment.

In this edition we look at a poem by Juan Ramón Giménez, which symbolises the spirit of ETNOMUSIC and characterises the 2022 concert programme: "wings that take root and roots that make us fly, that our own mixes with that of others, that tradition is built with an innovative outlook and that new styles do not lose their origins...".

The festival begins with the instrumentalist, singer and composer Ana Alcaide, an artist in love with instruments from other traditions and cultures, who in her new project Ritual, which arose from a meeting with the Iranian singer Reza Shayesteh, proposes a mystical journey, a hymn to the power of connection through everyday rituals.

Besarabia revisits us after their presence in 2017 with their second album Animal Republic, a look from Valencia towards the music of the Mediterranean and the Balkans. Without leaving the eastern Mediterranean, the members of the Valencian group Ataxía - a Greek word meaning disorder or mischief - bring together a repertoire based on traditional Greek pieces.

Momi Maiga is a young Senegalese 24-year-old virtuoso of the kora, a very popular instrument in Senegal. At ETNOMUSIC he will present the project Nio, which means soul in Mandinka, his native language, together with the Catalan percussionist Aleix Tobias, the cellist Marçal Ayats and the Mexican violinist Carlos Monfort.

In 2022 the festival will have its ETNOMUSIC PERIFÉRIC, a section launched last year that is committed to broadening audiences and proposing new formats. This year's edition features Maui, a singer-songwriter from Utrera who takes the audience to unusual worlds through the kaleidoscope of her songs sung and told; and the French-Moroccan group N3rdistan, which proposes the reformulation of traditional codes with a contemporary vision, mixing hip-hop, rap, electro-rock and traditional Arab melodies.

The festival's programme is completed with a concert for families, a new festival proposal, which this year features the Catalan band Ministrils del Raval, which will offer a musical tale in which traditional dances and songs from the northern Mediterranean will be performed.

Finally, ETNOMUSIC ALS POBLES will be held in the province of Valencia, with the aim of decentralising cultural activities and supporting the longed-for and necessary return to normality of its cultural offerings.

PROGRAMME of concerts at L'ETNO

05/05/22: Ana Alcaide. Castilla La Mancha.  20:00 h

11/05/22: Besarabia. Valencia. 20:00 h

19/05/22. Momi Maiga. Senegal.  20:00 h

22/05/22. Ministrils del Raval. 11:30 a.m. Concert for families. 

26/05/22: Ataxía. Valencia. 20:00 h

ETNOMUSIC PERIFÉRIC (young audiences)

28/05/22: Maui. Andalusia. 22:30 h

04/06/22: N3rdistan. Morocco / South of France. 22:30 h

ETNOMUSIC ALS POBLES

02/09/22. Bessarabia. Torres Torres. 23:00 h.

05/08/22. Bessarabia. Bocairent

15/07/22. Momi Maiga. Carcaixent. 22:30 h.

“El Maestrat Filmat” is a audiovisual project that brings to the present the different views that have been responsible for immortalizing this territory of inland Castelló (the north part of the Valencian country) throughout the last century. A proposal that aims to reflect on the visual imagery of this eminently rural territory. During the project, more than 20 film archive collections from towns such as Albocàsser, Benassal, Catí or Ares del Maestrat have been located and preserved.

This exhibition proposal is an adaptation of this documentary project. In the first part of the visit, the construction of the archive is presented. A constellation of images that show its origin, scope and context of creation, each one with its own characteristics. Discovering these collections will help us rethink their mere existence and reproduction, as well as their importance as documentary (intangible) heritage. Inside we can enjoy an audiovisual installation, a reconstruction of the interactive web documentary “El Maestrat Filmat-La Memòria Rescatada”.

At L'ETNO we care about the future of the planet. This is why we are working to reduce the impact of our activities on the environment. These are some of the actions we take:

A) Reduction of electricity consumption in the new permanent exhibition. Don't be surprised if you see little light when you enter our exhibition, we are reducing the nimber of lights on when the rooms are empty of visitors. Lights will came up as you walk in. 
 

B) Recycling materials we use. In our daily work we use a wide range of materials (paper, plastic, wood and so on..), some can be recycle. Here are two examples:

Paper: we are proving visitors with recycling points for the brouchures used to explain the exhibition, if you do not want them..leave them there.

Plastic: we advertise our projects using plastic banners..once the project is over we are converting them into nice, cool, bags!....you can buy them in the museum shop or get one free by participating in our contests #EtnoToteBags...go for it!! (we will announce them on our networks).

L’incontrolat es un ciclo que explora las relaciones entre el cine documental y la etnografía. El ciclo pretende potenciar la capacidad del documental como herramienta para reflexionar colectivamente sobre las sociedades y culturas contemporáneas. Lo hace mediante cuatro documentales que se encuentran a caballo entre trabajos dirigidos por antropólogos/se y piezas audiovisuales que contienen una marcada inspiración etnográfica. 

El planteamiento del ciclo parte de una mirada etnográfica contemporánea que no está centrada exclusivamente en los pueblos originarios o en comunidades rurales, sino que indaga en las prácticas culturales y los conflictos sociales de nuestras sociedades. Así, en la segunda edición de L’incontrolat se abordan cuestiones como la planificación y segregación urbana, la destrucción del territorio o los conflictos políticos en Colombia o Siria.
 
Los documentales son producciones recientes que no han sido estrenadas en nuestro territorio, ni son fácilmente accesibles en plataformas digitales. Todos ellos estarán acompañados de debates y coloquios para pensar el mundo desde una mirada etnográfica.

The exhibition focuses on the origins, history and social relevance of the current Levante UD football club, one of the classic clubs of the city of València. 

The exhibition will deal with some of the following topics:
- The social and political reality of the maritime settlements at that time.
- Catholic trade unionism and the Catholic circles created to counteract the influence of the class unions. In particular, it focuses on the Patronato de la Juventud Obrera.
- The reasons for the forced merger of Levante UD.
- The problems betwenn the two teams' supporters and players. 
- The "dance" of symbology: colours, shields, kits.

*Photo of Levante in a match against Atlético de Madrid at the Vallejo stadium. 1957. L'ETNO Archive. Col. Márquez Lambán.

Through the exhibition, objects from the L'ETNO clothing collection (Casa Insa) are presented in dialogue with others that are part of the festival in different valencian towns. The main objectives of the project are:

• To value the work of L'ETNO in the recovery, conservation and restoration of the Casa Insa clothing collection.
• Help the museum visitor understanding how the Corpus Christi festival was a "performance" in which the whole society participated.
• To analyze the iconography that has configured one of the main Valencian traditions.

Between 2 October and 13 November there will be guided tours on Sundays at 11:30 a.m. by the exhibition curators. Languages: Spanish and Valencian.

Exhibition related to the TV show "Tresors amb història".

This is the exhibition production linked to the TV show “Tresors amb Història”, broacasted by the Valencian Public Television, À Punt. The exhibition shows the selection of the one hundred objects that have been appearing during the broadcast of the program. The objects tell daily stories of Valencian men and women and are a sample of our history in the last century. With this project, L'ETNO proposes to reflect into the importance of material culture as a container of memory and an element capable of reflecting personal or collective identity.

TRESORS AMB HISTÒRIA has been produced by L'ETNO in collaboration with the Institut Valencià de Cultura, À Punt and the production companies Sunrise and El Terrat (The Mediapro Studio). It will remain open to the public until the 29th of May, and from June 15 it can be visited at the Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Castelló.