This year’s 14th edition of the festival will take place between September 16 and 22 in a festival’s tent at the Palace of Culture and Science. Carefully selected group of artists will surely leave unforgettable memories.
The main scene will be conquered by music stars. This year’s edition will be dominated by African performers. The inauguration concert will be opened by Waldemar Bastos, a vocalist with Portuguese roots, born in the borderland between Angola and Congo. The strength of his music are universal values: hope, unity and harmony amongst people. His artistic message is formed with words and his melancholic voice.
The musical special projects of the festival promise to be extremely interesting. A starting point in creating their concept was the meaning of words, their tone, timbre and stories written in the music. During Sounds Like Poland a Polish-Pershian project “When masters meet” will be presented , the lightmotive of which is focused on a spiritual aspect of art. The artists agree that couple of notes, slight ornament, quarter tone or subtle melisma are sufficient to create deeply moving piece.
Artists, using words and sounds, are actually discovering something that already exists, just like a traveler discovering new lands. This way, stories told with word and music are made to leave as much impressions and messages in listeners, as possible. Message told with lyrics is not always the same as the one left with music that comes to life with emotions. Again, artists will bring their stories to the festival. Using compositions, improvisations with words, sound and rhythm they will let us touch the secrets of human emotions, experience in the very moment of creation – the seconds when a word fuses with music and the mind – with feelings - says Maria Pomianowska, the art director of the festival.
The 14th edition of CCF will be a great surprise for all the festival's attendees and people, who are just getting to know Cross Culture festival this year - says Andrzej Matusiak, the creator of the festival.
More information: http://festival.warszawa.pl/en/