Akram Abdulfattah

Tampere Hall - Main Auditorium

Akram Abdulfattah (1990) is a young Palestinian-American violin master who combines jazz with middle eastern and Indian music. Akram’s style creates a world of fusion music that is influenced by Hindu, Turkish, and Persian styles, reflecting the rich legacy and...

Antti Paalanen

Tampere Hall - Small Auditorium

Antti Paalanen creates his wild music on the accordions so familiar to Finnish folkmusic. Although inspired by tradition, Paalanen has nevertheless created a sound world all his own, where tradition gives way to trance-like minimalism, EDM influenced beats, influences...

AySay

Tampere Hall - Small Auditorium

In Luna Ersahin’s voice, rests a story of the whole person in a composite world. In Turkish, Danish and Kurdish, she creates a fascinating universe in AySay together with Aske Døssing Bendixen and Carl West Hosbond. In the tension between Anatolia’s musical...

Bobo & Behaja

Tavara-asema

Bobo & Behaja is a Franco-Malagasy quintet forging new directions in Tsapiky music, the fast-paced, rhythmically intricate sounds born from the dusty soil of the Tulear region of south-western Madagascar. For over a decade, French saxophonist Maxime Bobo has...

Compota de Manana

Paja Kongressi

Forget about mañana, it’s manana: a term used by rumberos in Cuba to define someone who plays with heart, sensitivity and authenticity; ingredients found in abundance in this fiery compote of Cuban timba laced with rap, rock and jazz flavours. Compota de Manana...