The Porta World Music Festival is a contemporary traditional music festival which brings together various cultures, experience and eras. The festival aims at educating its listeners and musicians, since there are many creative impulses in world music that can serve as unexpected sources of inspiration and information, providing a deeper insight into diverse cultures.
The concert by the French vocal group Les Itinérantes will be a musical journey through the centuries in fourteen world languages. From the Middle Ages to Edith Piaf and Corsican polyphony, the trio passionately explores the infinite possibilities of the human voice and the way languages of all kinds resonate in music and within us.
The members of the group met while studying music theatre, having various backgrounds in early music, jazz and world music. The resulting merger of styles led to the ensemble’s repertoire now encompassing eleven musical styles, nine centuries and 19 languages. In keeping with their name, they travel from one time and place to another, creating images, stories and feelings with their voices