The only world music festival in the state, each year The Cedar’s Global Roots Festival reaches 3,000 audience members with performances, educational programs, and workshops featuring established and emerging international musicians, presenting unique and innovative artistic voices from diverse cultures. The Global Roots Festival is completely free for audiences, though reservations are encouraged for the evening performances.
Fémina is a trio of female Patagonian singer songwriters, whose d...
The only world music festival in the state, each year The Cedar’s Global Roots Festival reaches 3,000 audience members with performances, educational programs, and workshops featuring established and emerging international musicians, presenting unique and innovative artistic voices from diverse cultures. The Global Roots Festival is completely free for audiences, though reservations are encouraged for the evening performances.
Fémina is a trio of female Patagonian singer songwriters, whose diverse songs are characterized by show-stopping harmonies and a magical on-stage chemistry reminiscent of Ibeyi mixed with smooth hip hop flow a la Anita Tijoux. Their live shows are often theatrical in nature, and mix a variety of Latin genres such as cumbia, candombe, rumba, boleros, with international rhythms alike such as reggae and funk. A unique and thrilling combo, the trio has toured internationally in Mexico, Europe, released two albums and are currently working away at their third full length LP to be released in 2016.
Winner of the ‘Music of the Indian Ocean’ prize, Maya Kamaty wins hearts with her island blues melodies and halting ternary rhythm of Maloya, a style unique to her homeland of Réunion Island. Despite being cradled by the stories told by her mother, and the music and poetry sung by her father Gilbert Pounia and his band Ziskakan, she did not take to music as her calling until she left Réunion Island to study in France. Distanced from Creole culture, she sought out her roots and explored her identity through music. Maya Kamaty is breaking down boundaries as one of the few popular female singers to sing Maloya, a style traditionally sung by males. She transcends its boundaries to create her own intimate folk style of music by blending it with French chanson, Indian, and African influences.