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The edition 2010
After its launch in 2009, the Kriol Jazz Festival - Praia is therefore for a new edition 9 and April 10, 2010 in Praia, Cape Verde. Find a selection of artists from the Creole for a rich program and exchange both musical and human.
Organized by Harmonia Lda in partnership with the council of Praia, the Festival's main objective is to promote the Creole-inspired music from all the islands, whether in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean, Cape Verde, or Africa, the cradle of Creole.
This project is absolutely unique and innovative for Cape Verde, where no such event had been organized.
Kriol Jazz Festival – Praia, which is going to stage its second edition on April 9th and 10th of this year is one of the events which portrays the ambition we want for the city of Praia: a city with a diversified cultural agenda of high quality and with the capacity to be integrated into the international circuit of cultural events.
Culture is undoubtedly our largest resource and in music, dance, literature, painting, gastronomy and written and oral traditions, we have a sense of what we are as a nation whose identity was forged in the crossing of African and European peoples and whose geographic localisation puts us at the crossroads of Africa, Europe and America.
Kriol Jazz Festival – Praia is a combination of this identity and location which makes us a people which is open to the world with an important diaspora in various countries. The fact that this year’s edition is paying tribute to the eminent American musician, Horace Silver, the son of a Cape-Verdean, bears testimony to this.
This is why, nothing surprises us and other people aren’t surprised when they visit our country. We are islanders and creole, simply Cape-Verdean, so we’re in no doubt that both the artists who will take part in the festival as well as the visitors will feel at home and enjoy the creole culture that the Kriol Jazz Festival - Praia has to offer.
You’re more than welcome.
The Mayor of Praia
José Ulisses Correia e Silva
The Kriol Jazz Festival - Praia is an annual festival that takes place in April on the island of Santiago, the program spread over two days. The audience is both local and abroad.
April is a month of high tourist traffic in the international period has been chosen to attract the widest audience possible.
Each concert will begin with a national artist to be followed by artists 'Creole' international. Local artists will be displaying traditional musicians inspiration or a jazzy opening.
Based on what the international reference jazz, this project aims to create a cultural-based Creole. Thus, parallel concerts, a series of workshops will be established around the same idea, allowing everyone to share its experience, expertise and approach to Creole.
In 2009, along with concerts, the Kriol Jazz Festival - Praia has proposed a series of master classes and jam sessions to facilitate the exchange between national and international artists.
The Master Classes, organized in partnership with UniCV won the support of students and local musicians.
Jam Sessions for they were held at the Pub K and lasted until early morning before a large audience and interested.
The Kriol Jazz Festival - Praia in the network of festivals ACP (Africa-Caribbean-Pacific), some organizers of festivals will present in Praia for the opportunity this year.
In this framework, a trade meeting will be held between international trade and national cultural leaders, managers and local producers.
Tickets for this second edition -2010 - available at a price of 500 escudos per day with the opportunity to acquire a pass for two days at 800 escudos.
Organized by Harmonia Lda in partnership with the council of Praia, the Festival's main objective is to promote the Creole-inspired music from all the islands, whether in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean, Cape Verde, or Africa, the cradle of Creole.
This project is absolutely unique and innovative for Cape Verde, where no such event had been organized.
Mayor's message
Kriol Jazz Festival – Praia, which is going to stage its second edition on April 9th and 10th of this year is one of the events which portrays the ambition we want for the city of Praia: a city with a diversified cultural agenda of high quality and with the capacity to be integrated into the international circuit of cultural events.
Culture is undoubtedly our largest resource and in music, dance, literature, painting, gastronomy and written and oral traditions, we have a sense of what we are as a nation whose identity was forged in the crossing of African and European peoples and whose geographic localisation puts us at the crossroads of Africa, Europe and America.
Kriol Jazz Festival – Praia is a combination of this identity and location which makes us a people which is open to the world with an important diaspora in various countries. The fact that this year’s edition is paying tribute to the eminent American musician, Horace Silver, the son of a Cape-Verdean, bears testimony to this.
This is why, nothing surprises us and other people aren’t surprised when they visit our country. We are islanders and creole, simply Cape-Verdean, so we’re in no doubt that both the artists who will take part in the festival as well as the visitors will feel at home and enjoy the creole culture that the Kriol Jazz Festival - Praia has to offer.You’re more than welcome.
The Mayor of Praia
José Ulisses Correia e Silva
April is a month of high tourist traffic in the international period has been chosen to attract the widest audience possible.
Each concert will begin with a national artist to be followed by artists 'Creole' international. Local artists will be displaying traditional musicians inspiration or a jazzy opening.
Based on what the international reference jazz, this project aims to create a cultural-based Creole. Thus, parallel concerts, a series of workshops will be established around the same idea, allowing everyone to share its experience, expertise and approach to Creole. In 2009, along with concerts, the Kriol Jazz Festival - Praia has proposed a series of master classes and jam sessions to facilitate the exchange between national and international artists.
The Master Classes, organized in partnership with UniCV won the support of students and local musicians.
Jam Sessions for they were held at the Pub K and lasted until early morning before a large audience and interested. The Kriol Jazz Festival - Praia in the network of festivals ACP (Africa-Caribbean-Pacific), some organizers of festivals will present in Praia for the opportunity this year.
In this framework, a trade meeting will be held between international trade and national cultural leaders, managers and local producers.
Tickets for this second edition -2010 - available at a price of 500 escudos per day with the opportunity to acquire a pass for two days at 800 escudos.
