#FOLKARRIA ECO FESTI-BAL 2018

Bal Folk

Belgium

B-Road Bastards started as a streetmusic project of 3 young Belgian friends playing guitar, saxophone and cajon. In 2013, They had the crazy idea to only play in cities starting with the letter B. Their adventures took them to the streets of Budapest, Barcelona, Bologna, Brussels, Braga, Brugges and Béziers.

Soon enough they noticed that their groovy world - jazz music pleased the audience so much, they were invited to play in other cities too. The band decided to let all the letters of the alphabet join and play everywhere possible. The attractive mix of world and jazz music creates a lot of energy not only on stage, but also in the audience. Get ready for some groovy music!

Bal Folk

Spain/Holland

For more than 15 years Pan de Capazo has been traveling around the world.

They left the asphalt looking for the horizon, bringing music to his own life, root music that goes beyond places, people or identities, getting as far as possible, looking to the past to draw the present. Traditional, acoustic instruments of different origins and mud in the boots, mud from the orchard, mud from the path.

Their music is to dance, or to close your eyes and let yourself be carried far away... Strength and humor, evocation and trance, to move and dream ...

Pan de Capazo, elegant and vagabonds, adventurers and poets, call us to participate in their journey, named the Transmaritime Aerodomus, and in the strange relationship that exists between music and happiness.

They will make us catch ourselves in line, in circles, in pairs or as we can, and move to their "son", carried away by their melodies, swung by their stories ... Pan de Capazo invite us to hold our dreams in our hands, and ride on them.

Bal Folk

Belgium

Elanor is a young Belgian folk group with roots in Ghent.

In May of 2013, five seasoned musicians put their instruments together. A steaming accordion, a solid and sound hurdy-gurdy, virtuosic bagpipes and swinging flutes served in a spicy broth of bass and guitar. The music is energetic, easy to dance to and innovative with traditional elements. Original compositions and arrangements also allow a sitting audience to swing with pleasure.

Bert Leemans (EmBRUN, Les Boîtes, Triple-X, Variomatic) and Bart Praet have known each other for years as fellow musical countrymen. One melody after another emerged from Bart’s bagpipes and flutes. Bert eagerly caught the melodies and secretly stored them between the panels of his accordion. Some time later Bert shared the stage with Thomas Hoste (Cecilia). Presumably both hurdy-gurdy devotees stood listening to a mouth watering French hurdy-gurdy group... with a lot of desire to start working together. The three gentlemen met, the seed of Elanor had sprouted! The trio was immediately reinforced by a finely tuned DADGAD guitar, played by the keen and young scion Kuni Quintens. Jelle Van Cleemputte (Les Bandits de Belleville) ensures with his jazzy bass lines that the drone violence is enveloped in beautiful harmonies.

In 2013, Elanor launched a demo CD, rather as a business card to organizers. The first full CD "A Clear Look" came in the spring of 2016.

Bal Folk

France

After 10 years of existence, more than 300 concerts throughout Europe and 4 albums, Bal O'Gadjo continues its work of opening and meeting between traditional European music and world rhythms.

A beautiful journey that skilfully alternates singing, improvisations, melodies to several voices, chiseled arrangements and rhythms with oriental flavors. With their very diverse experiences, the 5 musicians converge their musical personalities in a blended concert of balkanic, mediterranean and gypsy cultures at the service of a balfolk always alive, creative and danceable.

We have been at festivals such as Les Trad'hivernales, Le Grand Bal de l'Europe, Cadança, Boulegan à l'Ostal, Boombal Festival, Danzas Sin Fronteras, Andanças, Festival de Confolens, Les Fifres de St Pierre, Les Bulles Sonores, Gooikoorts festival, Trad'envie, Chateau d'Ars, Damada, Mediterraneo...

Also in other major cities in France and in Europe: Bordeaux, Lyon, Grenoble, Toulouse, Gap, Le Mans, Lilles, Bourges, Troyes, Bayonne, Madrid, Girone, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Bruxelles, Portugal, Turin, Milan, Padova, Naples, Rome, Bari, Genéve, Winterthür...

Castilian Folk

Spain

Zagala is a band born in Madrid in 2015, with the purpose of delving into the peninsular folklore and making it known. Voice, mandola, guitar, violin, Iberian percussions like the “pandero cuadrao” or tambourines, merge with the sounds of drums from other corners of the world.

The sound of Zagala is characterized by its vocal force, where the instruments contribute to the mestizaje, bringing together musics from different places, cultures and times.

The group's proposal consists of a selection of danceable themes: jota, charro, ajechao (first rhythm of the Peñaparda dance), seguidilla, fandanguillo, sevillanas ...

Bal Folk

Belgium

Aérokorda is a young folk band from Belgium that plays energetic, yet sometimes restrained folk music with Celtic and Slavic influences. Pavel Souvandjiev (violin), Adriaan Van Wonterghem (Guitars) and Davy Cautaerts (Tin Whistles and Octave Mandolin) formed the band in October 2016.

Pavel is half Bulgarian and a classically trained violin player, this combination can be clearly heard in the way he plays. He has performed all over Europe with his other project, ‘Les Bottines Artistiques’, and is now ready for a new adventure with Aérokorda.
Adriaan was also classically trained as a guitar player and created his own specific style of playing that often adds a romantic touch in Aérokorda’s music. Adriaan also plays with another Belgian folk band called Boreas.
Davy has spent several years specializing in Celtic music, which he is very passionate about, and is the session leader of a weekly traditional Irish session in Ghent’s Irish pub. He also plays whistle in a Folkmetalband called Ithilien.

The three young musicians proudly present their first album: "Hush the Wolves".

Bal Folk

France

Monsieur Fruits is a guitar and a voice…

A duet that becomes trio when a « bucco-trombone » gets into the party.
On the edge between Georges Marley and Bob Brassens, between lightness and casualness…
Notes whirl and wander, fall to the ground or float on the water…
A journey into Space and Time…
The space of a waltz or another dance…
The time of this song that we know or that one we do not…

Monsieur Fruits music’s is made to be listened, sung… and, of course, to be danced !

Bal Folk

Spain/Holland

Duo Rodriguez Franceschini is the musical project created by Ramón Rodriguez (Pan de Capazo) and Emanuel Franceschini (Trikosis), longtime friends and neighbours for a little less in this peculiar natural place, which is the Hof van Wezel.

Here life is somewhat calmer, we build our houses and common spaces with wood and recycled material. There is space for forests, orchards and horses and children can run freely going from house to house. This is where the melodies of the DRF come to life and little by little they acquire their final form, as if they themselves decided how they want to be played.