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World Routes: WOMEX 2011

World Routes: WOMEX 2011: Episode 2

Episode 2

WOMEX 2011

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Lopa Kothari introduces highlights from the 2011 WOMEX festival in Copenhagen.

Lopa Kothari introduces highlights from the 2011 WOMEX festival in Copenhagen. With the Mairtin O'Connor Band, the Orquesta Tipica Fernandez Fierro and the Pakistani Qawaali party.

More highlights from WOMEX, the annual gathering of the world music industry, which takes place this year in Copenhagen. WOMEX showcases the newest bands and the freshest talent in world music, and Lopa Kothari introduces specially-recorded performances by the Mairtin O'Connor Band from Ireland, the flamboyant Orquesta Tipica Fernandez Fierro from Argentina, and the Pakistani Qawaali party led by Asif Ali Khan. Plus a session by the master Iranian percussionist Mohammad Reza Mortazavi. Producer James Parkin.

Mairtin O'Connor, Cathal Hayden, Seamie O'Dowd & Jim Higgins have been the Mairtin O'Connor Band since 2001. Individually recognised figureheads of the Irish tradition, they have built solid reputations as master musicians with astounding skill, diversity and virtuosity. Mairtin was one of the main musical forces behind the now legendary Riverdance phenomenon. 

Orquesta Tipica Fernandez Fierro is a revolutionary force on the Argentinian tango scene. The formation is the typical four bandoneons, three violins, viola, violoncello, double-bass, piano and a singer but the sound they make is aggressively modern, taking inspiration from the great tango orchestras of the past and infusing it with a rock attitude. When at home in Buenos Aires, they perform every Wednesday at their own venue, Club Atletico Fernandez Fierro.

Praised by the great qawaali singer, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, as one of his finest students, Asif Ali Khan from Pakistan, has established himself as a worthy bearer of the late maestro's torch.

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Lopa Kothari presents highlights from the 2011 WOMEX festival

Lopa Kothari presents highlights from WOMEX, the annual gathering of the world music industry, which takes place in 2011 in Copenhagen

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