The Smallest Eye He Had Ever Seen
In April 2026, in the Blue Mountains of Australia, I visited Ian Mackenzie to repair my uilleann pipes. What began as a practical visit about reeds, tuning, chanters, drones, and missing screws became something else: a conversation about handmade instruments, aging, ships, surgery, coffee, Galician pipes, 3D printing, and the strange intimacy of repair.
A Portuguese Architect and Bagpiper in Benin, West Africa
I am currently in #Benin, West Africa, representing the World Music School Helsinki and soon in #Nigeria, representing Architectural Democracy.
Guest speaker in Budapest 2017 on World Music
The organizers of this festival met us last year at WOMEX and they listened to our ideas on teaching music as a mother language. The ongoing process fits well with their purposes of discussion, and we are delighted to be part of it.
The World Music School is present at all major Folk Festivals of Finland of 2017
After Kaustinen we will be also present at the Etnosalo festival, a young but thriving festival.
Lönnrot 2.0 : let us celebrate and document the multi-cultural dances and music traditions which mak
It is fundamental to make this approach flexible and to make it now. Finland has been
India and Peru Folk mixed in Helsinki
Dance is not only the best of means to engage with music but is is also the primordial consensus maker within our differences
World Music School in Italy
We have been working to make a more pan-European cooperation among folk music related institutions, and to bring folk music to
World Music School Helsinki again in Rome
Soon we will be having a WMS Roma!
World Music School Shanghai
The World Music School’s model of “Teaching Music as a Mother Language” is expanding to #China. Meet our local Ambassador.
Sold out Brazilian Folk event at The World Music School Helsinki
Sold out Brazilian Folk event at The World Music School Helsinki