Cassandre Balbar

Cassandre is a prolific performer in many different kinds of traditions and her time in London has enabled her to widen her musical knowledge. She regularly performs with bands from different cultural backgrounds including Italy, the UK, France, Sweden, Anatolia and more recently North-West Africa. Her current projects include Världens Band, Amaraterra, Bonnendis, Follow the Rats and Vellamo Quartet. She has performed at many festivals and venues including the Proms, Womad, Cambridge Folk Festival, the Sage, Musicport, Mondomix project, Aan Korb BBC festival, Stockholm Culture Festival, Stockholm Folk festival, Bloomsbury festival, Urkult, Korrö and Southbank busking festival.

Cassandre also organises and curates music events. In 2012, she created the International Bagpipe Organisation and set up the biennal international bagpipe conferences. From 2010 to 2015, she organised the London Balfolk dances. She currently curates the Global Sound Sessions that she helped create at Lincoln Performing Arts Centre (LPAC) and organises the monthly Guild Sessions at St Mary’s Guildhall in Lincoln with architect James Irvine. She is currently working with James to organise the Guild Festival in June 2018, Lincoln’s first world and folk music festival.