Trefpunt Festival, Ghent, Belgium 2024

19-07-2024

Trefpunt invited the Serbian body percussion duo Alice in WonderBand and the Finnish fiddle duo Teho. to the 53rd edition of the festival for several performances in the Baudelo park. Both groups were interviewed by Firas El Hallak and filmed.

The groups from the Sounds of Europe project invited on the festival

1) Alice in WonderBand (Serbia)

Alice in WonderBand is a Balkan body music duo. Their performance is vibrating and rhythmic, powerful and energetic, a crossroads of dance, stage movement and music, a deep, primordial experience. The duo takes the audience on a journey through the Balkans in 12 languages, as well as to the depths of their being. The journey they finish together with the performers, feeling rooted, grounded and inspired. Alice In WonderBand showed two different performances at Trefpunt Festival and gave a body percussion workshop.

2) Teho. (Finland)

Teho. is a Finnish power-fiddle duo that explores musical boundaries while having roots deeply in the tradition. Teho's fiddlers grew up in Central Ostrobothnia – an area known for its extremely virile and rich folk music life. Their music combines fluently Finnish traditional fiddling, Norwegian Halling, Swedish Polska, Bebop, Western Swing, and composed, Contemporary Folk Music. Improvisation plays also big part of the duo's sound. The Finnish violin duo performed two times at the Karavaan stage in Baudelopark and participated in a folk jam later at night on the same stage.