Sibiu hosts World Music Festival this weekend

Newsroom 24/10/2012 | 11:09

The Gong Theatre of Sibiu will host this weekend the Sibiu World Music Festival, an event launched in 2007 during the “Sibiu – Luxembourg, the European Cultural Capital” program.

For this year, the Sibiu World Music Festival will feature concerts by Narcis Iustin Ianau – the favorite of the first edition of the show “Romania’s Got Talent”, the Trei Parale brass band, the bands Shannon Ceili Band (Ireland, Romania), Bordo Sarkany (Hungary), Biu Marquetti (Cuba, Peru, Chile, Colombia) and Amaro Del (Serbia). The artists will perform songs from the international and own repertories, and traditional-folk pieces in a modern interpretation.

The program of Sibiu World Music Festival 2012 is as follows: Friday, October 26: 7:00 PM – Shannon Ceili Band (Ireland, Romania – in picture), 8:30 PM – Bordo Sarkany (Hungary); Saturday, October 27: 7:00 PM – Narcis Iustin Ianau (Romania), 8:30 PM – Biu Marquetti (Cuba, Peru, Chile, Colombia); Sunday, October 28: 7:00 PM – Trei Parale (Romania), 8:30 PM – Amaro Del (Serbia). The Sibiu World Music Festival is a cultural project financed by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund and supported by the Ministry of Culture and National Patrimony.