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The Summer Music Village - Free Admission Festival
17th Jun 2008
HYDE PARK
Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 July 2008
1-9pm each day
The summer Music Village - Europe’s longest-running festival of world cultures - makes an immediate return to London’s Hyde Park this July after a hugely popular debut event in 2007.
Music village features two jam-packed days of top class music, dance and spoken word from all over the world. The line-up includes African, Latin, Jewish, Asian, Kurdish, East European and Chinese performance styles, to reflect decades of converging migrations into London from every corner of the earth.
Festival Director, Prakash Daswani, sets the scene for 2008:
”All the performers in this year’s global line-up are London-based. Some are emerging superstars - or long-hidden gems. Others have already attained mainstream popular acclaim, both within the capital and far further afield. Together, they represent some of the fruits of ever-increasing cross-cultural mingling in this, the 21st century’s leading World City. What better place for ordinary people to enjoy this profusion of artistic talent than in this year’s superb festival setting: a gladed natural amphitheatre nestling by the Serpentine in Hyde Park, central London’s most popular green space.
This year’s event presents an easy and direct way for Londoners of all national origins and faith persuasions - or none - and all social backgrounds and ages, to come together and experience this thriving, cosmopolitan, creative and, above all, forward-looking, enterprise, of which they themselves are an indispensable part.”
PRESS ENQUIRIES, PHOTOS & FESTIVAL CD Jenny Coyne 020 7264 0005
PUBLIC ENQUIRIES www.culturalco-operation.org or info@culturalco-operation.org
The Diaspora London Music Village festival is organised by Cultural Co-operation, an independent London-based arts charity that promotes cross-cultural contact, dialogue and understanding.
Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 July 2008
1-9pm each day
The summer Music Village - Europe’s longest-running festival of world cultures - makes an immediate return to London’s Hyde Park this July after a hugely popular debut event in 2007.
Music village features two jam-packed days of top class music, dance and spoken word from all over the world. The line-up includes African, Latin, Jewish, Asian, Kurdish, East European and Chinese performance styles, to reflect decades of converging migrations into London from every corner of the earth.
Festival Director, Prakash Daswani, sets the scene for 2008:
”All the performers in this year’s global line-up are London-based. Some are emerging superstars - or long-hidden gems. Others have already attained mainstream popular acclaim, both within the capital and far further afield. Together, they represent some of the fruits of ever-increasing cross-cultural mingling in this, the 21st century’s leading World City. What better place for ordinary people to enjoy this profusion of artistic talent than in this year’s superb festival setting: a gladed natural amphitheatre nestling by the Serpentine in Hyde Park, central London’s most popular green space.
This year’s event presents an easy and direct way for Londoners of all national origins and faith persuasions - or none - and all social backgrounds and ages, to come together and experience this thriving, cosmopolitan, creative and, above all, forward-looking, enterprise, of which they themselves are an indispensable part.”
PRESS ENQUIRIES, PHOTOS & FESTIVAL CD Jenny Coyne 020 7264 0005
PUBLIC ENQUIRIES www.culturalco-operation.org or info@culturalco-operation.org
The Diaspora London Music Village festival is organised by Cultural Co-operation, an independent London-based arts charity that promotes cross-cultural contact, dialogue and understanding.
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