The award-winning Malian singer Rokia Traoré is giving a concert with our artist in residence Smadj and some of their international musical friends. Drawing on mysterious wellsprings, Traoré has creat...

The irrepressible Savina Yannatou and her band Primavera en Salonico perform music based on traditional genres, for the most part from the Mediterranean region. Their BOZAR concert presents Yannatou's...

Tango Azul is an authentic tango show with a storyline, presented by no fewer than 13 artists. Three dancing couples and a female singer meet in a milonga, a Buenos Aires tango bar. The scenes we see ...

Inoculated with fado at a very early age, António Zambujo spent a lot of time in Lisbon's famous Alfama district after completing his clarinet studies. He soon found himself singing in one of the famo...

Estrella Morente, daughter of the influential Enrique Morente, is the uncrowned queen of the new generation of flamenco singers. With her crystal-clear voice, she blends age-old flamenco from Granada ...

The Iraqi-Hungarian Omar Bashir follows in the footsteps of his father, the legendary Iraqi oud-player Munir Bashir, one of the first musicians to introduce the oud to a broad public in the West. Afte...

To mark International Women's Day, we welcome a women's ensemble. The Selale ensemble takes you on a journey through the history of classical Turkish music, through a variety of styles, including musi...

The repertoire of the superb Tanguarda ensemble, founded by the pianist Maria Martinova, challenges the restrictive approach to tango too often taken by others. For tango can blend with jazz, classica...

The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble was founded in 2008 by the Armenian musician Levon Eskenian in order to revive the music of the Greek-Armenian philosopher, writer, and composer Georges I Gurdj...

Smadj takes to the stage with Ballaké Sissoko, the Malian virtuoso who has worked with, among others, Rokia Traoré, Ludovico Einaudi, and Vincent Ségal. The mellifluous Eastern sounds of the oud go wo...

Hélder Moutinho comes from a very musical family: his brothers Pedro Moutinho and Camané are well-known fadistas (fado singers). Last year we saw him here with the Quinteto Lisboa; this time he is app...

Eva Yerbabuena, who was our guest back in 2008, is in the front rank of contemporary flamenco dance. In ¡Ay!, her latest show, she returns - following a pregnancy - to the source. In this minimalist p...

The rising star Carminho is one of the most remarkable fadistas of the new generation. She blends the authentic fado she learned first with influences from Portuguese and Brazilian folk music, jazz, p...

The tabla virtuoso Sandeep Das started to play music from a very young age. He was only sixteen when he was asked to accompany Ravi Shankar, the first in a series of leading Indian musicians with whom...

The Turkish ney flute virtuoso Kudsi Erguner brings Turkish maqam and Indian raga closer to each other. The two have more in common than might appear at first sight. Both are strongly melodic modal sy...

The Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre has always taken a keen interest in alternative, excellent music from all over the world. We keep up with the latest developments and invite new young bands which emerg...

Master guitarist John McLaughlin, renowned for his work with Miles Davis and Paco de Lucía - among others - will come to the Centre for Fine Arts with Remember Shakti. As he shares the stage with lege...

Sufism - the mystical branch of Islam - probably dates from before the time of the Prophet Mohammed but mainly flourished from the tenth century onwards. There are several great Sufi poets such as Rum...

Katia Guerreiro, who had to cancel because of pregnancy last year, kicks off our new fado series. She is renowned for her heartfelt interpretation of the words of Fernando Pessoa and António Lobo Antu...

Thanks to his unique blend of Senegalese mbalax, Cuban music, hip hop, jazz and soul Youssou N'Dour became one of the greatest living African musicians. His collaborations with Peter Gabriel, Axelle R...

Enchanting Taoist performances! 58 performers from different Chinese Taoist temples will bring the cultural richness of the traditions of the Complete Perfection (Quanzhen) and Orthodox Oneness (Zheng...

Until now, BOZAR MUSIC residencies have been restricted to classical artists. That is now changing: the Tunisian-French multi-instrumentalist and producer Smadj, who has already been a guest several t...

The Kecak is a choir of Balinese vocal percussion, made up of fourty men who recount an episode from the Râmâyana (Râmâ's Journey) by Valmiki. In the course of the epic - one of the most celebrated in...