- event type:Festival
- date:17 Jun 2022 - 02 Jul 2022
- time: 16 days
- city/area:Maputo
- venue:Sound Culture
- country:Mozambique
- style(s):Roots
- event posted by:Festival Raiz
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Festival Raiz
It is a project of a traditional nature, dedicated to music with traditional Mozambican roots, with a view to rescuing, preserving, enhancing and disseminating the cultural diversity rooted in Mozambique and the region, promoting reflection and discussion of the arts around tradition and intangible heritage Mozambique and its transformations. Furthermore, it is a platform for artists, academic musicians, ethnomusicologists, researchers etc, which develop cultural and creative industries for local and international promotion. It is also a proposal to boost the traditional music sector at national and international level, in search of sustainable development.
Festival Raiz takes place in the form of several multifaceted activities, with the promotion of ethnic and traditional music concerts, workshops on the construction of traditional instruments, lectures and debates, exhibition of ethnographic films, artistic residencies of creation and musical composition, through the fusion of traditional, modern or electronic instruments, bringing together artists from the region and the world.