Krisztián Almási

Krisztián Almási (Kecskemét, Hungary) / drums and percussions

I started to play the drum when I was 15 mostly influenced by bands like Deep Purple, Nirvana and NoMeansNo. I was listening to rock, jazz, punk and experimental records all day and watching „120 Minutes” on MTV every week. I used to play in grunge and punk rock bands in the beginning of my career. Then I played funk-rock and irish music as well.

In 2007 world and folk music has become part of my life. I started to work and record with different bands and I went on international concert tours many times.

I am a full time musician now and I have the chance to work with wonderful people. My main band is „Lóca együttes” that is a folk/world music group and we play concerts to children. Besides Lóca I play the drums in a raw power folk band Zoord and in folk dance events every week. My new project is Yukatengi which is a post-folk / etno-punk two-piece. We use electric violin and drumkit, and we play our own experimental compositions. I play the kalimba and the sansula as well, and I produce dreamy minimalist ambient music under the artist name Mansanas.

Francesco Emanuele

Francesco Emanuele

Graduated in classical guitar, he is a guitar teacher, music producer and composer. Since his early age he plays jazz, Irish folk music and pop music in many important folk festivals around Italy and across Europe with a few important artists like Carmelo Salemi,...

Simona Sciacca

Simona Sciacca

Sicilian singer born in 1989. Since she was a child, she has shown particular attitudes and sympathy for everything that belongs to the world of music. Her predisposition for singing leads her to range between different musical genres: from pop music to sacred song,...

Luiz Murá

Luiz Murá

With a huge fascination for bossa nova, improvisation, jazz and tradional music, Luiz Murá seeks to connect Brazil with other melodies and rhythms around the world. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Luiz was always close to a musical atmosphere. Listening to samba in the bars...

Ernesto Vargas Aguila

Ernesto Vargas Aguila

Mexican bass and double bass player with origins also from Nicaragua, grew up with the mexican culture and music, started his music studies at the age of 14, assisted to ESM in Mexico, AMSM in Paris, and since 2004 lives in Barcelona where he has developed his career...

Katrīna Dimanta

Katrīna Dimanta

KATRĪNA DIMANTA a musician with a great voice, accompanies herself with several musical instruments. In 2014 she was a part of group that represented Latvia in Eurovision. Currently working on her first solo album, mostly working in folk music scene, also has had some...

Marieke Van Ransbeeck

Marieke Van Ransbeeck

Marieke Van Ransbeeck has roots in the Belgian folk music scene as a musician, music pedagogue and organiser. She began playing the bagpipe at the age of eight in Gooik, Flanders, with her teacher Jean-Pierre Van Hees. Passing through Ethno Flanders as a teenager she...

Signe Kierkgaard Schmidt

Signe Kierkgaard Schmidt

Signe Kierkgaard Schmidt is a 21 year old violinist from Fuenen, Denmark. Her interest in folkmusic began as a child, where traditional music and dancing was a regular part of family gatherings.

Deborah Perri

Deborah Perri

Calabrian cellist and multi-instrumentalist, graduated at the conservatory of Cosenza, playing different genres, inclunding classical music. From 2015 Deborah is a member of The Muses of the Mediterranean Sea as cellist, guitarist, singer and percussionist. With her...

Benjamin Bech

Benjamin Bech

My name is Benjamin Bech and I from Denmark. Born into a family, who have been part of the organisation for traditional dancing in Denmark for several generations, traditional Danish folk music was a natural part of my childhood. I have a wide musical background,...

Carmelo Siciliano

Carmelo Siciliano

Carmelo Siciliano was born in Catania, Sicily in 1980. From a young age, he dedicated himself to his two great loves: Greece and music. In 2003, he received his classical guitar diploma with the highest honors and so he occupied himself with studying Greek music and...