{"id":41523,"date":"2019-08-28T17:18:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T15:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/le-guess-who-announces-full-curated-programs-by-fatoumata-diawara-and-more\/"},"modified":"2020-10-07T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T11:00:19","slug":"le-guess-who-2019-curated-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/le-guess-who-2019-curated-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Guess Who? announces full curated programs by Fatoumata Diawara and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Utrecht festival finalizes\u00a0his unique line-up\u00a0and announces the full curated programs.<\/b><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Taking place in the beautiful Dutch city of Utrecht, Le Guess Who? is dedicated to boundary-crossing music from all over the world, featuring avant-garde, jazz, hip hop, electronic, experimental, global sounds and other genres.\u00a0The line-up consists of more than a\u00a0hundred acts including world-exclusive live performances and also features stages curated by artists; this year’s curators are Fatoumata Diawara, Iris van Herpen & Salvador Breed,\u00a0 Holly Herndon,\u00a0<\/b>Moon Duo, The Bug, and Patrick Higgins.<\/p>\n

Grammy-nominated Malian musician Fatoumata Diawara\u2019s curation focuses on artists related to “afrocubism” – a cross-pollination of Malian and Cuban music – and Afrofuturism. She will host a solo performance by Cuban jazz pianist Roberto Fonseca, who previously performed in the legendary Buena Vista Social Club; rapper Master Soumy, the voice of a new generation in Mali, who addresses topics like migration, education, and freedom of religion; and nomadic Tuareg artist Ahmed Ag Kaedy, whose music evokes the bare remnants left of the Kidal region, where he is banished from. Diawara herself will also perform at the festival, and will also screen two films: Mali Blues<\/em> and Yao<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The festival has also announced a number of additional special performances, including the violinist and vocalist Sudan Archives;\u00a0 American rapper, performance artist, poet and activist Mykki Blanco;\u00a0Egyptian-Iranian experimental pop musicianLafawndah and hip-hop soul duo Oshun amongst others. Also, Le Guess Who?\u00a0presents two label nights during the festival<\/span>\u00a0including Portugal\u2019s Pr\u00edncipe with\u00a0performances by DJ Marfox, DJ Firmeza, and N\u00eddia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tickets for Le Guess Who? are available at the festival\u00a0website<\/a>,<\/span> with four-day passes and day tickets on sale now. See below for all newly announced artists.<\/p>\n

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The Utrecht festival finalizes\u00a0his unique line-up\u00a0and announces the full curated programs. Taking place in the beautiful Dutch city of Utrecht, Le Guess Who? is dedicated to boundary-crossing music from all over the world, featuring avant-garde, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4946,5165,5924,24838],"location":[8198],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41523"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41523"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}