Ethno Sweden will be held July 2-10, 2009 and celebrates an incredible 20 years of Ethno Sweden!  Since it’s beginning as a small folk music camp for young musicians alongside the Falun Folk Music Festival, many more new Ethnos have been born thanks to the pioneer work of the first Swedish leaders and organizers. All ex-ethno participants are invited to a special anniversary party at the Folkmusikens Hus in Rattvik on the last day of Ethno Sweden 2009!

Ethno Histria 2009 will be held 29 June - 7 July in Gracisce, Slovenia!

As usual, around 60 participants from all over the world are expected, including actors and directors from the theatre school of Prague. In additional to concerts in the village, town, monastery and cave, we will also perform on 2 street theatre festivals, in a jail and other interesting places.

Leaders: Matija Solce, Nano Stern, Stina Rosén, Maarja Nuut, Stephan Steiner

Ethno Croatia 2009 is going to take place in Groznjan from July 11-17 and will include concerts in Bale, Groznjan and Pula!

Blagoja Petkovski, Ethno Macedonia Coordinator is pleased to announce that the Ethno Macedonia will be held this year in Ohrid, from 5-10 July, 2008.

The program will consist of various new and interesting events presented by young artists from various countries, reflecting their origin and culture through musical songs and performances, dances, particular instruments, and national costumes.

This year’s event will highlight Norwegian folklore and tradition. Norwegian musicians are especially encouraged to apply for this session!

Ethno Macedonia organizes apartment accommodation and food for participants.

From 9-15 July, we are waiting for all of you - ethno lovers and active performers of folk music to join us…

Ethno Croatia 2008 is held at the meeting point of Mediterranean & Central Europe, in medieval town of Groznjan/Istria, Croatia

Ethno Croatia 2008 offers special workshops to familiarize & teach the basics of the rich repertoire of multicultural Istrian music, invites international musicians to teach each other their traditional music, and provides opportunities to meet local musicians and participate in excursions and concerts.

A maximum of 20 participants will be accepted, to enable the active participation of each student.
Participants should prepare one composition which represents their local culture and two more compositions of choice for the other participants to learn.

Working language: English

Mentors:
Dario Marusic, Istria, Croatia
Allan Skrobe, Sweden

The Ethno Cyprus 2008 will be held between 11 and 19 of July!

About 50 youngsters from Portugal, Greece, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and Cyprus will meet in Limassol and following ethno tradition, surely become friends for life!

This year’s edition of Ethno Estonia will take place from July 18 to 24 2008,
both in the little town Suure-Jaani and in Viljandi - the beautiful Estonian
capital of traditional music.

Among the artistic leaders you can find the fantastic Finnish double bass
player Antti Järvelä (member of the group Frigg), the multi-instrumentalist Ian
Stephenson from England, the bagpiper and flute player Sandra Sillamaa (member
of Ro:toro) and the guitar player Arno Tamm (member of Paber) - and many other.

More information (in Estonian): www.etno.folk.ee

…an unforgettable week full of music, dance and workshops with the most talented folk musicians from all over the world.

Where?
Gito Tervuren, Brusselsesteenweg 106, 3080 Tervuren (www.tervuren.be)

Concerts
Friday 25/07/2008 concert and dance night in CC de Cam in Gooik
Saturday 26/07/2008 concert on the Colorafestival in Leuven
Sunday 27/07/2008 concert on the Sfinks Festival in Boechout

ARTISTIC LEADERS 2008: Remi Decker (B), Alan Scrobe (S), Vincent Noiret (B), Stephan Steiner (Au)

More Info: www.flandersethno.be
Contact: info (at) flandersethno (dot) be

Where: Skofije close to Koper, South West Slovenia

More Infos: www.folx.org/etno_histria_2008

Contact: etno_histria (at) yahoo (dot) com

Ethno Histria Mastermind Matija Solce writes:

” Hello!!

Ethno Histria 2008 is coming! It will take place on Slovenian coast (Skofije) from 31 july - 7 august. Don t miss this unique music-life-ecc experience! More than 50 musicians from all planets mixed with some actors from Prague academy will in 8 days play in all places you can not immagine… This year menthors will be Stephan Steiner (Austria), Dario Marusic (Slovenija), Matija Solce (transsilvanija) and NEW!!! Fernando Stern, great chilean young music master.

We are preparing bit different concept that will focus more on workshops. This year you get
- MORE days
- more divided and speciall workshops
- vocal section (leaded by F. Stern)
- NO complicated amplified concerts (only acustic)
- 2 Concerts in little cozy Istrian villages in connetion with local people
- 1 Big concert in beutiful seatown Piran
- speciall music-theatre event in one of biggest caves ever
- SEA
- probably taking coffe in italy
- dance workshops
- internal events such as dinners pepared by special guests, internal theatre events ecc..
- good mediteranean food
- playing on street theatre festival PUF
- street busking competition
- higer age limit
- Jam - session all the time and enywhere you can immagine…(if you dont belive ask past or further generations)
- you can find some general info down on the mail…
… and more things coming up!

Fee for all this things (inclding sleeping, food and ways during the camp)…140 Eu

Applications as SOON as POSSIBLE!!!
send on this mail address your:
- name, address, country
- instrument
- Veg/ non Vegetarian
- date/time of coming and type of transport
- short description of your skills, music and other interests, expectations (proposals are welcome!)

Spread this message to at least 10 potential participants and big luck will come to you (and lots of good time for them).

Hope to see you!
all the best

Matija Solce - program coordinator “

There will be almost 100 people coming to Ethno Sweden this summer! On June 26 the 19th Ethno camp will open its doors in Rattvik, Sweden. Time for another great week of great music and great friends! Nepal and India are two newcomers at Ethno 2008. We can´t hardly wait to meet these foreign guests and take part of their music! Tanzania, Mozambique, USA, Chile, Jordan, Spain, Portugal, England, Scotland, Macedonia, Belgium and Norway are also sending people - and we still hope to get participants from Cyprus, Palestine and Turkey! The organization looks pretty much the same as in 2007. 1 - The place is the same: the Rattvik school in Rattvik, some 300 km north-west of Stockholm. A perfect place in a nice little town, with the fantastic Lake Siljan just around the corner. 2 - the leaders will also be the same as in 2007. Nina Anderberg and Mattias Pérez with the help of Susanne Lind, Ian Carr and Kevin Henderson. 3 - the concerts will be the same as last year: some concerts outdors in Rattvik, a big concert at the Musik vid Siljan festival and then music at the famous Bingsjo fiddle festival!