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

This year the infamous Ethno Histria attracted around seventy crazy folk/ traditional musicians from around the globe! Ethno Histia mentors included Matija Solce (Slovenia), Maarja Nuut (Estonia), Fernando Stern (Chile), Stephan Steiner (Austria) and Stina Rosen (Sweden); for those unfamiliar with the concept, mentors at Ethno guide the musical meanderings rather than ‘teach’ in a traditional form of the word. The teaching is done primarily by the participants, who share their own musical knowledge in a mutual learning exchange with their Ethno peers.

The program was fresh with a lot of variety including theatre performances, street processions, shows around the region and of course an array of different workshops. Over the 8 days, participants got a taste of the traditional and contemporary folk music’s of Slovenia, Estonia, Austria, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, France, Argentina, Sweden, Chile, Hungary, Scotland, Slovakia, Czech, England and Germany… wow. There were vocal and percussion section through whole week - singers were fully occupied

Through out the camp participants had the chance to put there newly acquired repertoires into action with several outside concerts. The street procession followed by a bigger concert in Koper was very well received; the concert in Piran consisted of a medley of solos by participants, which was a perfect opportunity to demonstrate to other participants their own works and not only their folk music. Concerts in the surrounding villages were warmly accepted by the local people, with other short concerts held in the prison of Koper, shopping centres and even in a caves. Ethno organiser Matija Solce believes “It is good to bring participants to places in which these kinds of things rarely happen, places like pensioners houses, schools, factories, the jungle, jails, you know…”

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 “