Folk in Malta

Subject: Folk in Malta
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 19 Jun 06 - 07:54 PM

Anybody know of a folk club or similar on any evening?

I'm due over there tonight

CHEERS
Nigel

Subject: RE: Folk in Malta
From: skipy
Date: 20 Jun 06 - 12:47 PM

This is the first club for folk singers and musicians in Malta for members to meet and draw their own cultural policy. The club was inaugurated on Sunday 14 March at 10.00 a.m. Folk singers, folk musicians and members of the public interested in ghana are all invited.
Skipy
ps, there used to be on in Kalafrana, closed 1977 when 203 sqn left.

Subject: RE: Folk in Malta
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 20 Jun 06 - 02:00 PM

The URL that goes with Skipy's entry above is this one. Here's what it says:

Qormi Local Council wishes to announce that an agreement has been signed with Kadenzi, the local society for Maltese folk singers and folk musicians, offering them premises for a club in order to cultivate a wider appreciation of Maltese folk singing by Maltese society. The agreement was signed on February 9, 2004 by ...[list of names]

The club is situated in the Greek Theatre Complex near St Sebastian Church at Qormi. This augurs well for the future of Maltese folk singing, an important aspect of our culture. Early documentation of ghana culture goes as far back as early fifteenth century and ghana has always played a part in local culture in the past and contemporary Malta. This is not to exclude the existence of Maltese folk singing and music prior to documentation.

This is the first club for folk singers and musicians in Malta for members to meet and draw their own cultural policy. The club was inaugurated on Sunday 14 March at 10.00 a.m. Folk singers, folk musicians and members of the public interested in ghana are all invited.

[No day/time information is included unless it's in the Maltese part of the page]

Cheers!
Claire

Subject: RE: Folk in Malta
From: skipy
Date: 20 Jun 06 - 03:46 PM

Clairebear, Thanks for that, not a clue about how the hell I managed to copy / paste only part of it.
Skipy.

Subject: RE: Folk in Malta
From: DMcG
Date: 20 Jun 06 - 05:09 PM

Here is some traditional music I recorded last time I was in Malta.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is an English version of this style.

Subject: RE: Folk in Malta
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 20 Jun 06 - 08:58 PM

Radio National had an hour of ghana music on the Into The Music program a couple of days ago. The blurb goes

The Wounding Song
Into the Music explores the wild and vibrant Maltese vernacular singing known as Ghana, in this special feature by Australian composer Robert Iolini.

Transcript & download available (for the time being, anyway) at
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/intothemusic/

This is truly wild stuff - it won't be to everyone's taste. My wife's reaction was that she had never heard anything so unmusical. My reaction was similar to the way some people react to the sight of a car crash - gruesome, but you can't tear yourself away.

See for yourselves.