Madison World Music Festival
performingarts@union.wisc.edu -- WUD Performing Arts
From Tibet to Zanzibar, Sudan to Mexico, Hungary and beyond, the 13th Annual Madison World Music Festival offers many styles to explore and enjoy, each bringing something unique to the table. Enjoy dancing, meditative music and arts, and kinds of music you may not have heard before. Bring the kids, your dancing shoes and your curiosity.
The festival
is presented by the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Performing Arts Committee in
collaboration with the Marquette Neighborhood Association and is supported by
Dane Arts with additional funds from The Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm
of The Capital Times, Anonymous Fund, UW Hillel & Hinenu.
Madison World Music Festival Tentative Schedule
The Mystical Arts of
Tibet – Sand Mandala, Shannon Sunset Lounge, Memorial Union
Schedule:
Tuesday, 9/13, 12n – 1pm,
Mandala Opening Ceremony
Wednesday – Thursday,
9/14 - 9/15, 9am – 6pm, Mandala Construction
Friday, 9/16, 9am – 3pm,
Mandala Construction
Thursday, 9/15, Memorial
Union:
Fredric March Play
Circle:
5:30pm, Film: Life is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western
Sahara, directed by Iara Lee
Terrace:
6:45pm: Enyedi-Salamon Ensemble, Hungary, dancing workshop (Rain:
Festival Room)
8:15pm: Enyedi-Salamon Ensemble, Hungary, performance (Rain: Play
Circle)
Friday, 9/16, Memorial
Union Terrace:
3:30pm – 5:00pm, The
Mystical Arts of Tibet – Sand Mandala, Closing Ceremony and Dispersal of the
Sand
5:30pm, Rajab Suleiman
& Kithara, Zanzibar (rain: Shannon Hall)
7:30pm, Alsarah & the
Nubatones, Sudan/USA (rain: Shannon Hall)
9:30pm, The Dhol
Foundation, India/England (rain: Shannon Hall)
Saturday, 9/17
Willy St. Fair, Large
Stage:
2:30pm, Femina, Argentina
4:45pm, A-Wa,
Israel/Yemen
7pm, Otimo,
Brazil/Madison
7:30pm, The Villalobos
Brothers, Mexico
Shannon Hall:
8pm: The Mystical Arts of
Tibet
Terrace (Rain: Shannon
Hall):
9:30pm: A-Wa, Israel
Thursday, 9/29, Memorial
Union Terrace (rain: Shannon Hall):
7pm: Canzoniere Grecanico
Salentino, Italy
9pm: Troker, Mexico