Esther

Presented by ESNS News Cafe – Friday, 16th January. Groningen (Netherlands) Esther is one of the most recognized voices of the new batch of Valencian pop-rock. Since her debut with the EP Les teues ales (Your Wings, 2021), the singer Esther stood out in the Valencian pop-rock scene. His confirmation came with his full-length debut, […]

La María

Presented by Babel Music XP Trovam – Saturday, 15th November. Castelló (Spain) La Maria is a singer who fuses music with traditional Valencian roots and electronic textures. The irruption of La Maria meant a revolution in traditional Valencian singing. She debuted in 2023 with L’Assumpció (The Assumption), a release that took her to more than […]

Pau Alabajos

Fengaros Festival – Saturday, 2nd August. Kornos (Cyprus) Pau Alabajos is a singer-songwriter who began his career in the streets of Ciutat Vella in València in 2002. Whether solo with his acoustic guitar or with the accompaniment of string instruments, drums and piano, Pau Alabajos maintains the deep-rooted tradition of singer-songwriter. After more than two […]

Immen

Presented by Babel Music XP Trovam – Saturday, 15th November. Castelló (Spain) Immen és el nom artístic de Clasine Haringsma, cantant i guitarrista resident a Utrecht. Les seues cançons aborden incerteses vitals i sentiments profunds amb una veu càlida i etèria que servix de consol. Clasine Haringsma va deixar la casa dels seus pares a […]

Demetris Mesimeris

Presented by Babel Music XP Grand CAB – Friday, 20th March. Marseille (France) Demetris Mesimeris is a composer, performer, and creator born in Nicosia. His ability to fuse tradition and modernity gives his sound a distinctive character. Coming from a music-loving family, he studied in the English city of Cambridge. His pieces combine elements of […]

Brama

Presented by Babel Music XP Trovam – Saturday, 15th November. Castelló (Spain) Brama is a psychedelic rock band from central France combining droning hurdy gurdy, sharp cut guitar riff and energy blasting drums. Formed in 2019, the quartet has the ability to jump from one genre to another — from experimental noise art to stellar […]

Cyprus

Cypriot Greek is a dialectal variety of Modern Greek spoken mainly on the island of Cyprus. It is closely related to Standard Greek but has its own phonetic, lexical, and grammatical features that make it clearly distinctive and recognizable. It is the variety spoken daily by Greek Cypriots.

Netherlands

Frisian, the language of her ancestors. It’s a Germanic language spoken in three regions: the Netherlands (in the north); Germany (in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein and in Lower Saxony, in the northwest); and Denmark. It shares similarities with English, featuring very open vowels and three grammatical genders.

France

Occitan is a Romance language spoken mainly in three areas: the southern third of France; the Aran Valley (in the northwest of Catalonia); and Italy (in the Occitan Valleys of the Piedmont and Liguria regions, in the northwest of the country, and in the Calabrian town of Guardia Piemontese, in the south). Occitan is characterized by its dialectal diversity (Gascon, Limousin, Auvergnat, Languedocien, Provençal).

Spain

Valencian is a Romance language spoken in the Valencian Community, as well as in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, the French department of the Eastern Pyrenees, the Principality of Andorra, the eastern strip of Aragon and the Sardinian city of Alghero, places where it is called Catalan.

The relationship between Valencian and Spanish is mostly diglossic: while the first language is usually used in informal functions, the second predominates in formal functions.