- artist:Dal:um
- event type:WOMEX 25 Showcase - Official Selection
- date:25 Oct 2025
- time:14:15 - 15:15
- city/area:Tampere
- venue:Tampere Hall, Daycase Stage (Small Auditorium)
- country:Finland
- event posted by:Piranha Arts
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Seoul-based duo, Dal:um are at the forefront of new Korean music, bringing a questing, modernising energy to timeless traditions. Ha Suyean and Hwang Hyeyoung grew up learning formal Korean gugak music, excelling on two different types of zithers: the gayageum and geomungo respectively. They joined together out of a shared desire to break out of the confines of the classical style and allow their venerable instruments to converse with inter-cultural influences of the 21st century cityscape. Dal:um translates as ‘to keep pursuing something’, which, as evidenced on their two albums for Glitterbeat's Tak:Til imprint – Similar and Different (2021) and Coexistence (2024) – and performances in over 65 cities worldwide, they do with inventive agility, following an arc which begins in the centuries-old origins of their instruments and continues into a future of endless possibilities.
Intro: Rok Kosir