- artist:Alicia Edelweiss (Austria/UK)
- event type:WOMEX 22 Showcase - Official Selection
- date:22 Oct 2022
- time:13:00 - 14:00
- city/area:Lisbon
- venue:Daycase Stage
- country:Portugal
- event posted by:Piranha Arts
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Alicia Edelweiss is an Austrian-British singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, artist and yarn-spinner, whose imaginative forays into dark folk tales, humour-laden autobiographical sketches and sideways observations on life are suffused with both a sense of child-like wonder and an arch contemporary savvy, couched in subtly insistent melodic ear-worms. She began her musical career as a teenage street musician during a two-year bout of hitch-hiking around Europe before settling in Portugal, where she had a fateful encounter with an accordion, which became the springboard for her dive into song writing. Returning to her home-town Vienna, she collaborated with many different musicians, performers and circus artists, before releasing her debut studio album, When I'm Enlightened, Everything Will Be Better, in 2019, featuring her in trio with cello and violin, which has led her to numerous festivals across Europe.
> Intro: Marie-Theres Himmler & Albert Hosp (Austria)