{"id":5559,"date":"2025-06-20T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=5559"},"modified":"2025-06-20T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:00:26","slug":"balkanik-festival-bucharest-event-announces-lineup-of-this-years-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=5559","title":{"rendered":"Balkanik Festival: Bucharest event announces lineup of this year&#8217;s edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Balkanik Festival \u2013 Home of World Music<\/em>, set to take place at Uranus Garden between September 5 and September 7, lines up this year artists who &#8220;celebrate that form of joy that does not ignore reality, but faces it with beauty, energy, and solidarity,&#8221; the organizers said.<\/p>\n<p>The artists performing in September in Bucharest will be <em>Omar Souleyman<\/em> (Syria), whose music is a hybrid between traditional dabke and electronic beats; <em>Lupii lui Calancea<\/em> (Moldova), performing a blend of Moldavian folklore, rock, and funk; <em>Mahala Rai Banda &amp; Jony Iliev<\/em> (Romania \u2013 Bulgaria); <em>Ivo Papasov &amp; His Wedding Band<\/em> (Bulgaria), set for a performance breaking the boundaries between folklore and avant-garde; <em>Kottarashky &amp; The Rain Dogs<\/em> (Bulgaria), expected to deliver the atmosphere of a Balkan noir; <em>MiASiN<\/em> (Armenia\u2013France), a collective project from the Armenian diaspora blending jazz, rock and traditional instruments to explore identity themes; <em>Kanizsa Csillagai<\/em> (Hungary), bringing to the stage the force of Roma tradition; <em>BaLKAN Taksim<\/em> (Romania), the duo known for the Balkan-infused trip-hop; and <em>Karpov Not Kasparov <\/em>(Romania), two pioneers of East-European synth-pop exploring a retro-futuristic sound inspired by the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to live concerts, the festival program includes this year a craft fair, craft demonstrations, debates, jam sessions, video mapping on the water tower, workshops for children and adults, world food, and more.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s debates will explore the theme of &#8220;Joy as a form of cultural and community resistance.&#8221; They will present guests from fields as varied as the arts, philosophy, anthropology, and activism and tackle the question, &#8220;What does joy mean in a world where everything seems to be fracturing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Five hundred early-bird passes are currently on sale. Children younger than 9 enjoy free entry, accompanied by adults.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo: the organizers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balkanik Festival \u2013 Home of World Music, set to take place at Uranus Garden between September 5 and September 7, lines up this year artists who &#8220;celebrate that form of joy that does not ignore reality, but faces it with beauty, energy, and solidarity,&#8221; the organizers said. The artists performing in September in Bucharest will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}