Migrations Festival of World Music: The Very Best in 'Local Music From Out There.'

The latest programme in our acclaimed series 'Migrations: Great Journeys in World Music' looks at some of the more meditative aspects of eastern music and its influence in the west, with two dates devoted to Terry Riley, the legendary founder of minimalism.


Migrations East West begins with a very rare glimpse into the ravishing, Persian and Sufi-influenced music and poetry of the city of Herat in Afghanistan (22 Sep), before we welcome the amazing trio of oud-playing brothers from Nazareth in Palestine, Le Trio Joubran (29 Sep). On October 28, Terry Riley appears in a special 75th birthday concert with Talvin Singh and George Brooks, in a programme dedicated to Pandit Pran Nath, an important singer and teacher of Indian music who made a particular impact on avant-garde musicians in the United States. The following week (4 Nov) Bristol pays tribute to Terry Riley's most famous composition, In C, when Adrian Utley (Portishead)'s 20-strong Guitar Orchestra, with Will Gregory (Goldfrapp) and Charles Hazlewood on keyboards, performs a site-specific interpretation of this canonical Sixties classic.

Other Migrations dates include two overlaps with our jazz programme: Jazz Jamaica with 'Blue Note Blue Beat' (14 Oct), a mix-up of hard bop classics with reggae and ska featuring the incredible vocals of Lovers Rock star Myrna Hague; and the return of the great Courtney Pine with 'Transition in Tradition' (24 Nov), which joyfully links New Orleans to Haiti, Cuba and Europe. We close for the season with a full-on party celebrating the Spanish guitar, with Bristol's own El Patio Primo and the band of Cuba's Ahmed Dickinson Cardenas (9 Dec).

'One of the most ambitious, important and entertaining cultural programmes Bristol has ever produced.' Venue Magazine

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Curated by Phil Johnson and promoted by St George's Bristol.
Festival partners: Watershed Media Centre, Festival of Ideas and the Bristol Refugee Week.