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Festival’s music line up released!
Music Stage headlines: Liraz, Seun Kuti, Balaklava Blues, Toya Delazy, Von Hertzen Brothers, Jesse Markin, Yeboyah, Ilta and Megasakki!
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Festival’s music line up released!
Music Stage headlines: Liraz, Seun Kuti, Balaklava Blues, Toya Delazy, Von Hertzen Brothers, Jesse Markin, Yeboyah, Ilta and Megasakki!
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Continue reading Music changing the world – music programme released
Music changing the world – music programme released
Opening Helsinki’s festival summer in Suvilahti, World Village Festival has released its entire music lineup and some of the key speakers. This…
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Continue reading Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 lined up for World Village Festival
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 lined up for World Village Festival
The first programme releases are now available for the spring 2023 World Village Festival that takes place during the last weekend of May (27–28…
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Continue reading Become an exhibitor – registration now open
Become an exhibitor – registration now open
World Village Festival is an event where hundreds of organisations showcase their activities, values or products as exhibitors, partners or…
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Sat 14.15
Continue reading Keynote Helena Gualinga: Changemaker fighting for the environment and equality
Keynote Helena Gualinga: Changemaker fighting for the environment and equality
Helena Gualinga, 21, is an environmental and human rights activist. She grew up both in Finland and in the Kichwa Sarayaku community in the…
Sat 17.30
Continue reading Toya Delazy (RSA/UK)
Toya Delazy (RSA/UK)
South African Toya Delazy is a bold and visionary artist offering a true 21st-century sound. Delazy is known as the creator of Afrorave, a genre…
Sat 19.45
Continue reading Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 (NGR)
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 (NGR)
A superstar of African music, Nigerian Afrobeat musician and singer Seun Kuti showed interest in music at the age of five, following the footsteps of…
Sun 11.00
Continue reading Von Hertzen Brothers
Von Hertzen Brothers
Ambitious and uncompromising, Von Hertzen Brothers are one of Finland’s biggest and most-loved rock bands. The band have achieved this by being…
Sun 15.30
Continue reading Balaklava Blues (UKR-CAN)
Balaklava Blues (UKR-CAN)
Ukrainian-Canadian Balaklava Blues is a stancetaking band fusing Ukrainian polyphony and other folk traditions with EDM, dub step and trap to explore…
Sun 17.45
Continue reading Liraz (ISR-IRN)
Liraz (ISR-IRN)
Award-winning Israeli-Persian singer-songwriter Liraz captures the audience with her skills. Singing in Persian, her songs fuse modern Israeli music…
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