The Guinean band Tabanka Djaz, with a history of 30 years, closes today the penultimate night of the Festival Músicas do Mundo, in Sines.
Of the band’s current musicians, formed in the late 1980s, Micas Cabral (voice and guitar), Juvenal Cabral (bass) and Jânio Barbosa (keys) will be on stage next to the beach, accompanied by brass, drums, percussions and choirs.
With three artists, Guinea-Bissau has the largest delegation ever at the 23rd edition of the Festival Músicas do Mundo. Eneida Marta has already performed on the first day, still in Porto Covo, and Super Mama Djombo will play on Saturday at 02:15.
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Mozambicans Ghorwane (Saturday, 23:30) and Cape Verdeans Os Tubarões (Saturday, 00:45) are other representatives of Portuguese-speaking Africa who will still perform in Sines.
Africa is the origin of more than a third of the artists invited to the 23rd edition of the festival, organized annually by the Municipality of Sines, under the motto “Music with a spirit of adventure”.
Today, Portugal will be represented by Tó Trips Trio (18:00) and Maria João&Carlos Bica Quarteto (21:00), but the program will open with Madalitso Band, from Malawi, a country that debuts at the festival (16:30, Pátio das Artes).
Spain’s Rodrigo Cuevas takes over the castle’s prime time slot (22:15), but the expectation is placed on the UK’s The Selecter (00:45). In between will be the Jamaican collective Inna de Yard (23:30).
When festival-goers descend from the castle to the stage set up on Avenida Vasco da Gama, on the waterfront, they will be greeted, before Tabanka Djaz, by the collective Al Qasar (02:15), by French-American guitarist and producer Thomas Attar Bellier, with a special guest, Sudanese singer Alsarah.
This year’s edition of the Music of the World Festival, which ends on Saturday, includes a menu of 42 concerts, by artists from 27 countries, and a series of parallel activities.
