| Hubert von Goisern live in Vienna with Bil Aka Kora |
www.vidc.org June
2003
More than 12,000 enthusiastic guests celebrated a festival
on the Whitsun weekend in the Böhmischen Prater, as Favoriten has
rarely seen. Top grade music and dance acts in Tivoli and at the Spenglerwirt
provided for a unique atmosphere in subtropical temperatures. Unanimous
opinion: we look forward to next year.
[...] It is difficult to single out individuals from the
wealth of impressive concerts and acts at Moving Cultures Favoriten.
The Spenglerwirt stage offered the ideal area for the first highpoint
on Saturday. That was without a doubt the fascinating appearance from
the Haitian singer Marlene Dorcena, who cast the audience under her spell
from the first bar. On Whit Sunday, Bil Aka Kora from Burkina Faso and
Hubert von Goisern served up a musical delicacy of special class. Ideal
lead-in to the closing concert from Oliver Mtukudzi: the star from Zimbabwe
gave impressive proof of his ability after a ten year absence from Austria.
The nighttime atmosphere over the Tivoli, in front of the lit-up ferris
wheel and half moon covered in cloud, in addition the incomparable Tuku
Beat Mtukudzis let a good many people believe in another world. All those
who were there will look back at the two days in the Böhmischen
Prater with pleasure and hopefully remember the slogan of the celebration:
Another world is possible.
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