Katarina Barruk
Pop and Sámi tradition
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Friday 24 July
Katarina Barruk
Sweden
Village du Monde
Pop
Katarina Barruk sings in a language spoken today by barely a couple of dozen people. Ume Sámi, listed as critically endangered by UNESCO, resounds with striking force when she carries it onto the stage. Blending Nordic pop, the ancestral joik tradition and flashes of improvisation, the Sámi singer creates a rare space that feels both fragile and formidable. Her voice cuts through silence like an Arctic landscape: vast, inhabited, impossible to ignore. Each performance becomes a suspended moment where identity, memory and modernity converge. An experience as intimate as it is mesmerising.
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