Adar Duo
Adar, a word that means horn or branch in Basque, is formed by Arnaud Bibonne and Maider Martineau, passionate about the similarities between their traditional instruments such as the alboka, the boha, the caremère, accordions, percussions and even instruments related to the surrounding cultures. The duo is also developing their singing in Basque, Gascon and French and recorded their first album Bohada in 2021.
These two accomplices fascinated by sound seek here their musical complementarity, attentive to the magic of the moment, to cultural anchorage and rhythm, without dance ever being far away. Together they like to discover, to be inspired, to compose.
Grand Balthazar
Coming directly from French-speaking Switzerland, Grand Balthazar composes, arranges, retouches and twists melodies and rhythms inspired by traditional European music, especially those that make your skeleton move and your head spin!
Circles, waltzes, chappeloises, tarantellas, bourrées, avant-deux, scottish, mixers, mazurkas, asymmetrical waltzes,…
All these traditional or more modern dances are quickly learnt and passed on from bal to bal, from workshop to workshop… and the dynamism and creativity of Grand Balthazar will take them to another dimension!
Grand Balthazar is a quartet in constant creation and at the service of dance. Their taste for improvisation and spontaneous playing make them an original group in the field of (neo)traditional music.
Diatao
Solo project of energetic folk dance on the diatonic accordion. Tao’s compositions are inspired by traditional melodies and their dances to form a repertoire of folk dances from the south-west of France to Brittany via classical mazurkas, circles, scottishes and many more. DiaTao makes your ears dance and your feet vibrate!
Eingo
Three members inspired not only from the Basque culture currently make up the “Plaza Dantza” format of the group ‘Eingo’. They are Natxo Montero (Bilbao), Mikel Zarate (Erandio) and Iker Allur (Gautegiz Arteaga).
Being the essence of Eingo the ‘transmission-tradition’, their aim is to transfer to the ‘bal-folk’ style the repertoire of the ‘Basque folklore’ they are familiar with.
In their own words: “we are delighted to be able to participate in Folkirrika. For us it will be the presentation of the renewed format and we are looking forward to the challenge.”
Izaskun Iturri (Emak Bakia Dantzan)
Zuretalur
From the Basque Country to abroad and back to the Basque Country. That’s what Zuretalur is all about. In the rich world of Folk without frontiers, its three members have come together for a search beyond creativity and folklore. They combine personal arrangements of the Basque Country repertoire with their own compositions and melodies from the balfolk repertoire. New ways of experiencing music and dance that are flexible, colourful and irreverent!
Nomaziak
Nomaziak is a vocal ensemble conceived in Vitoria/Gasteiz as an experience where people from different backgrounds and with different relationships to music find each other, interact, learn and create.
This first foray is inspired by the resonance of traditional southern European polyphony, the rhythms of Iberian percussion, the echoes of the choral tradition that has helped preserve so much of our heritage and, of course, the seeds of each of the people who make up the ensemble.
