Gibraltar World Music Festival

Gibraltar World Music Festival
Gibraltar World Music Festival
	1st Gibraltar World Music Festival held at St. Michael's Cave
Genre	Fado, Jazz, Samba, Bossa nova, Sephardic music, Jazz
Dates	June 8, 2017
Location(s)	St. Michael's Cave, Gibraltar
Years active	2012-present
Founded by	Gibraltar Productions
Website	gibraltarworldmusicfestival.gibraltarproductions.com/gibraltar-world-music-festival-2016-obrigado/

The Gibraltar World Music Festival (GWMF) is an annual music festival held in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The event has a different theme every year, past themes have been Sephardic, Asia minor, China and India, Maghreb, Morocco, Lusophone Culture and Afreeka.

In 2016, the theme was the Portuguese language (Lusophone) year and called Obrigado, meaning thank you in Portuguese, with Artists from Portugal, Brazil and Cape Verde. Tickets for the event were sold at £30 (General Public) & £25 (Senior Citizens and Students) for the event in St. Michael's Cave.

In 2017 the theme will be Africa and called Uprising.

Music Concert Line ups

2012: SEPHARDIC DIVAS - Sarah Aroeste, OFIR, Françoise Atlan, Mor Karbasi
2013: PASSAGE TO ASIA - En Chordais, The Sweet Canary Ensemble, Mark Eliyahu, Amir Shahzad, Yasmin Levy
2014: CHINDIA - Nathan Conroy, Itamar Doari, Nitin Sawhney, Mieko Miyazaki, Guo Gan
2015: KHAMSA - Dhafer Youssef, David Morales, Jazz Oil, Abir El Abed, Neta Elkayam, Françoise Atlan.
2016: OBRIGADO - Carmen Souza, Márcio Faraco & Carminho^[1]
2017: UPRISING - Bassekou Kouyaté, Gili Yalo and Yossi Fine and Ben Aylon
2018: BORDERS- Quarter to Africa and Orphy Robinson and the Voicestra Polyphonic Collective