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World Routes: WOMAD 2013: Episode 2

Episode 2

WOMAD 2013

BBC Radio 3 - World Routes, WOMAD 2013, Episode 2

Lucy Duran with highlights from WOMAD 2013, including Dawanggang and Canzoniere Grecanico.

Lucy Duran presents more highlights from the 2013 WOMAD festival held at Charlton Park in Wiltshire. Including the groups Dawanggang from China and Canzoniere Grecanico from Italy.

Lucy Duran presents more highlights from this year's WOMAD festival held at Charlton Park in Wiltshire two weeks' ago. Including the groups Dawanggang from China and Canzoniere Grecanico from Southern Italy. Producer James Parkin.

Dawanggang is a musical ensemble created by Song Yuzhe, an eclectic musician from the
North East of China. While the name Dawanggang has no other meaning than "what you see above", the content of the music reaches far and wide, from the nomadic themes of Western China to broad experimental lines.

Formed by writer Rina Durante in 1975, Canzoniere Grecanico is a traditional music ensemble from Salento, Italy. The seven piece band perform a contemporary style of Southern Italy's traditional Pizzica music and dance. Based in Lecce, the group performs under the direction of fiddler and drummer Mauro Durante. Canzoniere Grecanico has recorded 17 albums and performed all over the world. In 2010, they were awarded Best Italian World Music Group at the Meeting of Independent Labels festival in Italy.

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Lucy Duran presents highlights from the 2013 WOMAD festival

Lucy Duran presents highlights from the 2013 WOMAD festival held at Charlton Park in Wiltshire

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