Ana Alcaide

• country:Spain
• style(s):Ethnic
• label:ARC Music International
• type:Band, Quartet
• gender:male, female
• instrumentation:instrumental, vocal, percussion, visual, woodwind, singer songwriter
• artist posted by:Sierra Contratacion Artistica

Line up

• Ana Alcaide (Vocals, Nyckelharpa, Tanbour, Hardanger Violin)
• Bill Cooley (Ud, Psalty, Percusions, Sounsdscapes, Bass pedal)
• Kaveh Sarvarian (Ney, Tombak, Percussions)
• Reza Shayesteh (Vocals, Tanbour, Setar, Daf)
• Sandra Rico (Dance)

Links

• official website
• Booking

Ana Alcaide: explorer of musical hidden treasures

‘Her music transports you to distant lands, ancient times, and magical places. It is an invitation to build bridges between cultures and a call to tolerance through musical fusion. For this composer, singer and instrumentalist, music is her vehicle "to reach beauty, dialogue and encounter".


Ana Alcaide is a musician and composer from Toledo, Spain, who carries out research on ancient traditions and cultures. She is one of the most recognized Spanish artists in the folk and world music scene. Alcaide has presented her music in some of the most important festivals, theatres and venues around Europe, Morocco, China, Indonesia, Malasya, Tunisia, Canada, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Argentina, Uruguay… More than 500 concerts in 4 Continents!!

Her albums has always been in the Top 10 WMCE (World Music Charts Europe), Transglobal World Music Charts as well as on the top of some of the International radios in Australia, Canada, UK, USA or Europe.

Ana has played a pioneering role in the introduction and popularization of the nyckelharpa in Spain. Rooted in ancient traditions yet resolutely modern, her compositions deftly blend musical styles from different cultures. From the inspirational backdrop of the city of Toledo, Ana writes and produces her songs, creates new arrangements, and adapts the nyckelharpa to ancient melodies that originated in medieval Spain and have travelled throughout the Mediterranean region. But her personal and artistic evolution leads her to conquer new creative fields in the recent years.

In March 2022 she is releasing ‘RITUAL’, her sixth CD. This new album is an ambitious project with musicians from Iran, USA and Spain. A mystical journey, a hymn to the power of connection through the act of daily rituals. It was born from her personal encounter with the Iranian singer Reza Shayesteh and Persian poetry.

In June 2016 she published ‘LEYENDA’, an album that digs into the strength of the Femininity through the presence of the woman in diverse cultures and mythologies from a modern view, and which represent an important step in presenting her music.

In 2015 she starts the new recording series ‘Tales of Pangea’, in which she creates new music in collaboration with musicians from other parts of the world. The first release ‘Gotrasawala ensemble’, was recorded in Java Island (Indonesia) after two years of musical and cultural exchange with local musicians.

Since 2016 she is the Artistic Director of the ‘Toledo World Music Festival’. In 2017 she collaborated on Loreena McKennitt recent recording.