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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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