Indeed a pleasant potpourri of traditional music at the “Giovanni da Udine” theatre in Udine for the “European Minority Language Song Contest” which was organized by the Liet International (more information at:
http://www.loveandsound.it/liet-international-il-piu-importante-festival-musicale-delle-lingue-minoritarie-d’europa). The contest began back in 2002 and has become of the most important of its kind in terms of promoting music amongst minority languages.
Twelve groups competed in the contest in front of a packed theater. Performers also included a touch of local Friulian music with other bands that came from as far away as the very northern tip of Norway to the former Soviet republic of Udmurtia (the band apparently comes from the very same area as certain Dr. Mikhail Kalashnikov, yes, the very same man who invented the A-K47 assault machine gun which has been used by pretty well every rebel army in the world!). But traditional music wasn’t only the call of the day as there was even some good old rock’n’roll from the Asturias region of Spain (complete with bagpipes too!). The bands were: Aoiffe Scott, Coffeschock Company, Cuntra Lom, Janna Eijer, Macanta, Noid, Priska, Rezia Ladina, Rolffa, Silent Woo Gore, Siroka (Basque music) and Skama La Rede.
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