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Lusitanian Ghosts (PT)
Curator - February 7, 2021Lusitanian Ghosts features ancient Portuguese chordophones and other European string instruments, promoting ancient sounds in the 21st Century. Re-casting these heritage folk violas into rock n roll songs, the artist collective writes from a socio-political perspective on building a better world, creating songs from and for the heart and the mind. Their second album, recorded
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European Ghosts Co-Creation Project Presentation at Westway LAB Conference
Curator - February 7, 2021The first public presentation of the European Ghosts Co-Creation Project will take place Friday April 9th at Portugal’s first showcase festival and professional music conference event, Westway LAB. Going on to its 8th edition this April, Westway LAB was co-founded by A Oficina and AMAEI, Portugal’s Independent Music Trade Association. The EUROPEAN GHOSTS panel will
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Songwriting Residency
Open Call for Artists in Residence
Curator - February 7, 2021The EUROPEAN GHOSTS Residency will take place in 3-day segments from September 13th to 22nd 2021. Interested artists should send their biography, CV and expression of interest to the email: residency@europeanghosts.com During the residency, room and board will be provided at the Clouds Hill studio apartment. No travel compensation is possible to get to and
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Songwriting Residency
Songwriting Residency at Clouds Hill Studios: Sep. 13th-22nd 2021
Curator - February 7, 2021EUROPEAN GHOSTS is a MUSIC MOVES EUROPE co-creation project centred around a songwriting and recording residency at Hamburg’s Clouds Hill recording studio: https://cloudshillrecordings.com/ The 10-day residency will invite European artists during 3-day working cycles, 7 at a time, with the goal of establishing cross-regional working groups leading to the composition and recording of new European
Introducing the Artist Curators
Curator - January 29, 2021Meet our Artist Curators: JOANA NEGRÃO (SEIVA / A CANTADEIRA) Joana Negrão is a singer, songwriter and musician (Portuguese Bagpipe, Adufe and galician tamborine). She graduated from Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of Lisbon in History and Archeology but her passion to the past led her, in the last 15 years, in the searching for
Introducing the NORD University Team
Curator - January 29, 2021Introducing the NORD Team: Project Mapping & Dissemination HANS STOP Hans Jørgen Støp is Associate professor in Music Production at the Department of Music, Nord University. He has held this position since 2005. He graduated from the music performance studies in Jazz (Vocal) at the Trondelag Music Conservatory in 1994, but has own his reputation
A Ghost is a Memory.
Curator - December 3, 2020Welcome to European Ghosts, a Music Moves Europe Co-Creation project! EUROPEAN GHOSTS is a new innovative co-creation and co-production project seeking to re-invent European Musical Heritage for the 21st Century. From the Lusitanian Chordophones utilized in new ways by Portuguese artist collective Lusitanian Ghosts, O Gajo, or OMIRI, there are several artists across Europe re-inventing