Oslo World Music Festival is an annual festival, being held this year for the 19th time. In 2012, for the third year in a row, it was named as one of the 25 best international festivals in the world by the UK-based world music magazine Songlines.The festival attracts around 16 000 music fans every year, and during the week-long event as many as 300 artists will be playing on 14 different stages all around Oslo. Kronos Quartet is one of the headliners, along with fado singer Ana Moura, Balkan legend Goran Bregovic, the opening project El Gusto, the African blues legend Boubacar Traoré, up and coming Fatoumata Diawara from Mali and Paal Nilssen-Love’s EthioAction project – formed especially for the Oslo World Music Festival.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 2:36PM 
