History
1999
August 13-15 | Castle | Audience: 7000
Corvos (Portugal)
Clã (Portugal)
Carlos Núñez Band (Spain)
Opus Ensemble (Portugal)
Abed Azrié (Syria / France / Spain)
Quinteto de Carlos Martins (Portugal)
Sonny Fortune (USA)
2000
July 27-29 | Castle | 8000 Audience: 8000
Adufe (Portugal)
Dieuf Dieul (Senegal)
Trio Esquina (Argentina)
Sivan Perwer (Kurdistan)
Omar Sosa Sextet (Cuba)
Shemekia Copeland Blues Band (USA)
2001
July 26-28 | Castle | Audience: 10000
Brigada Victor Jara (Portugal)
Bal Tribal (France)
Carmen Linares (Spain)
Taraf de Haidouks (Romania)
Andrea Marquee (Brazil)
David Murray / World Saxophone Quartet (USA / South Africa)
Black Uhuru feat. Sly & Robbie (Jamaica)
2002
July 25-27 | Castle | Audience: 15000
Cristina Branco (Portugal)
Hedningarna (Sweden)
David Murray Big Band (USA / Cuba)
Los de Abajo (Mexico)
Popa Chubby (USA)
Yat-kha (Tuva / Russia)
Mabulu (Mozambique)
2003
July 24-26 | Castle | Audience: 20000
Danças Ocultas (Portugal)
Simentera (Cape Verde)
Mahwash & Ensemble Kaboul (Afghanistan)
Mahotella Queens (South Africa)
Totonho & Os Cabra (Brazil)
Kronos Quartet (USA)
Kad Achouri (France / United Kingdom)
The Skatalites (Jamaica)
2004
July 29-31 | Castle, Capela da Misericórdia, Beach Stage | Audience: 24000
Ronda dos Quatro Caminhos (Portugal)
Warsaw Village Band (Poland)
Di Grine Kuzine (Germany)
Victor Gama – Projecto Pangeia (Portugal)
Savina Yannatou (Greece)
David Murray / Pharoah Sanders (USA / Guadaloupe)
Tom Zé (Brazil)
Nike (Portugal)
München (Portugal)
Septeto Roberto Rodriguez (USA / Cuba)
Rokia Traoré (Mali)
Femi Kuti (Nigeria)
Refilon (Portugal)
2005
July 28-30 | Castle, Capela da Misericórdia e Beach Stage, Porto Covo | Audience: 27000
34 Puñaladas (Argentina)
Cristina Branco + Brigada Victor Jara + Segue-me à Capela (Portugal)
Ljiljana Buttler & Mostar Sevdah Reunion (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Amadou & Mariam (Mali)
Mahala Raï Banda (Romania)
Lula Pena (Portugal)
Marc Ribot & The Young Philadelphians (USA)
Astrid Hadad (Mexico)
Hermeto Pascoal (Brazil)
Ba Cissoko (Guinea-Conakry)
Samurai 4 (Japan)
The Master Musicians of Jajouka (Morocco)
KTU (Finland / USA)
Kíla (Ireland)
Konono n.º 1 (DR Congo)
2006
July 21-29 | Castle, Beach Stage, Sines’ Arts Centre, Porto Covo | Audience: 50000
Francis Hime (Brazil)
Mayra Andrade (Cape Verde)
Buraka Som Sistema (Portugal)
Boris Kovac & La Campanella (Serbia)
Actores Alidos (Sardinia)
Vaguement la Jungle (France)
Dazkarieh (Portugal)
Eliseo Parra (Spain)
Da Jam Band (Portugal)
Jacques Pellen “Celtic Procession” (Brittany)
K’Naan (Somalia)
Ensemble JER – Os Plásticos de Lisboa (Portugal)
Vusi Mahlasela (South Africa)
Gaiteiros de Lisboa (Portugal)
Trio Rabih Abou-Khalil & Joachim Kühn (Lebanon / Germany)
Toumani Diabaté & Symmetric Orchestra (Mali)
Alamaailman Vasarat (Finland)
Nuru Kane & Bayefall Gnawa (Senegal)
Farida & Iraqi Maqam Ensemble (Iraq)
The Bad Plus (USA)
Trilok Gurtu & The Misra Brothers (India)
Tony Allen (Nigeria)
Fruit Music (Portugal)
Mariem Hassan (Western Sahara)
Värttinä (Finland)
Cordel do Fogo Encantado (Brazil)
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 (Nigeria)
Ivo Papasov & His Wedding Band (Bulgaria)
2007
July 20-28 | Castle, Beach Stage, Sines’ Arts Centre, Porto Covo | Audience: 75000-80000
Galandum Galundaina (Portugal)
Darko Rundek & Cargo Orkestar (Croatia / France)
Etran Finatawa (Niger)
Don Byron plays Junior Walker (USA)
Mamani Keita & Nicolas Repac (Mali / France)
Deti Picasso (Armenia / Russia)
Djabe (Hungary)
Rão Kyao & Karl Seglem (Portugal / Norway)
Haydamaky (Ukraine)
Marcel Kanche (France)
Ttukunak (Basque Country)
Lula Pena (Portugal)
Jacky Molard Acoustic Quartet (Brittany)
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (USA)
Trilok Gurtu Band (India)
Bellowhead (United Kingdom)
Oumou Sangaré (Mali)
Oki Dub Ainu Band (Japan)
Harry Manx (Canada)
Carlos Bica & Trio Azul com DJ Ill Vibe (Portugal / Germany / USA)
Tartit (Mali)
Mahmoud Ahmed (Ethiopia)
Bitty McLean & The Homegrown Band (UK / France)
Aronas (New Zealand / Australia)
Hamilton de Holanda Quinteto (Brazil)
World Saxophone Qt. “Political Blues” (USA)
Rachid Taha (Algeria)
La Etruria Criminale Banda (Italy)
Norkst (Brittany)
Erika Stucky & Roots of Communication (Switzerland)
K’Naan (Somalia / Canada)
Gogol Bordello (USA / Ukraine)
Sr. Coconut & His Orch. feat A. Brito (Chile / Germany)
2008
July 17-26 | Castle, Beach Stage, Sines’ Arts Centre, Porto Covo | Audience: 85000-90000
Siba e a Fuloresta (Brazil)
Serra-lhe Aí!!! & Os Rosales (Galicia)
Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba (Mali)
A Naifa (Portugal)
Herminia (Cape Verde)
Hazmat Modine (USA)
Flat Earth Society meets Jimi Tenor (Belgium / Finland)
The Last Poets (USA)
Enzo Avitabile & Bottari (Italy)
Danças Ocultas (Portugal)
Asha Bhosle (India)
A Tribute to Andy Palacio feat. Special Guests (Belize / Honduras)
Danae (Portugal)
Moskow Art Trio (Russia / Norway)
Lo Còr de la Plana (Occitania)
Dead Combo (Portugal)
Iva Bittová (Czech Republic)
Moriarty (USA / France)
Waldemar Bastos (Angola)
Vinicio Capossela (Italy)
Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara (UK / Gambia)
Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band feat. Joe Bowie (Trinidad / UK / USA)
Mandrágora & Special Guests (Portugal / Brittany)
Marful “Salón de Baile” (Galicia)
Toto Bona Lokua (French Antilles / Cameroon / DR Congo)
Orchestra Baobab (Senegal)
Silvério Pessoa (Brazil)
Toubab Krewe (USA)
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset (United Kingdom)
Faiz Ali Faiz (Pakistan)
KTU (Finland / USA)
Cui Jian (China)
Firewater (USA)
Nortec Collective presents Bostich and Fussible (Mexico)
The Dizu Plaatjies’ Ibuyambo Ensemble (South Africa)
Koby Israelite (Israel / UK)
Rokia Traoré (Mali / France)
Doran – Stucky – Studer – Tacuma (Ireland / Switzerland / USA)
Jean-Paul Bourelly meets Melvin Gibbs & Will Calhoun (USA)
Boom Pam (Israel)
2009
July 17-25 | Castle, Beach Stage, Sines’ Arts Centre, Porto Covo | Audience: ca. 87000
O’Questrada (Portugal)
Rupa & The April Fishes (USA)
Circo Abusivo (Italy)
Victor Démé (Burkina Faso)
The Ukrainians (UK)
Dele Sosimi Afrobeat Orchestra (Nigeria/UK)
Wyza (Angola)
Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro (Argentina)
Daara J Family (Senegal)
Mor Karbasi (Israel/UK)
Portico Quartet (UK)
Corneliu Stroe & Aromanian Ethno Band (Romania)
Carmen Souza (Portugal/Cape Verde)
Trilhos – Novos Caminhos da Guitarra Portuguesa (Portugal)
Janita Salomé (Portugal)
Uxía (Galicia)
Acetre (Extremadura)
L’Enfance Rouge (France/Italy/Tunisia)
Assobio (Portugal)
Alô Irmão – Narf & Manecas Costa (Galicia/Guinea-Bissau)
Hanggai (China)
Chucho Valdés Big Band (Cuba)
Kasaï Allstars (DR Congo)
Damily (Madagascar)
Paulo Sousa (Portugal)
Njava (Madagascar)
Warsaw Village Band (Poland)
Debashish Bhattacharya (India)
Cyro Baptista “Beat the Donkey” (Brazil/USA)
Chicha Libre (USA)
Melech Mechaya (Portugal)
Bibi Tanga & The Selenites (CAR/France)
James Blood Ulmer (USA)
Alamaailman Vasarat (Finland)
Lee “Scratch” Perry (Jamaica)
Speed Caravan (France/Algeria)
2010
July 28-31 | Castle, Beach Stage and Sines’ Arts Centre | Audience: ca. 85000-90000
Vitorino e Janita Salomé com Grupo de Cantadores de Redondo (Portugal)
Cacique’97 (Mozambique / Portugal)
Nat King Cole en Espagnol (USA / Cuba / Portugal)
Las Rubias del Norte (USA)
Céu (Brazil)
Novalima (Peru)
34 Puñaladas (Argentina)
Wimme (Finland / Sami People)
Yasmin Levy (Israel)
N’Diale – Jacky Molard Quartet & Founé Diarra Trio (Brittany / Mali)
The Mekons (UK / USA)
Grupo Fantasma (USA)
Kimi Djabaté (Guinea-Bissau)
The Rodeo (France)
Barbez (USA)
Sa Dingding (China)
Tinariwen (Mali / Sahara)
Forro in the Dark (Brazil)
Bailarico Sofisticado convida Selecta Alice (Portugal)
Guadi Galego (Galicia)
Galaxy (East-Timor)
Lole Montoya (Spain)
Cheick Tidiane Seck feat. Mamani Keita (Mali)
Staff Benda Bilili (DR Congo)
U-Roy (Jamaica)
Batida (Portugal / Angola)
2011
July 22-30 | Castle, Beach Stage and Sines’ Arts Centre | Audience: ca. 80000-90000
António Zambujo (Portugal)
Le Trio Joubran “AsFâr” (Palestine)
Cheikh Lô (Senegal)
Secret Chiefs 3 (USA)
António Chainho “LisGoa” (Portugal / India)
Mamer (Xinjiang – China)
Berrogüetto (Galicia – Spain)
Congotronics vs Rockers (DR Congo / USA / Argentina / Sweden)
Aduf (Portugal)
Luísa Maita (Brazil)
De Tangos y Jaleos (Extremadura – Spain)
Ebo Taylor & Afrobeat Academy (Ghana)
Mercedes Peón (Galicia – Spain)
Rakia (Portugal)
Manou Gallo & Women Band (Ivory Coast / Belgium)
Mama Rosin (Switzerland)
Blitz the Ambassador (Ghana / USA)
Mikado Lab (Portugal)
Shunsuke Kimura x Etsuro Ono (Japan)
Graveola e o Lixo Polifônico (Brazil)
Apsilies (Greece)
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt & The Divana Ensemble “Desert Slide” (Rajasthan – India)
Nomfusi & The Lucky Charms (South Africa)
Tuba Project feat. Bob Stewart (Romania / USA)
L.U.M.E. (Portugal)
Lousy Guru (Portugal)
Ayarkhaan (Yakutia Rep. – Russia)
Marchand vs. Burger “Before Bach” (France)
Dissidenten (Germany / Morocco)
O Experimentar Na M’Incomoda (Azores – Portugal)
Nathalie Natiembé (Réunion – France)
CaBaCe (Portugal)
Mário Lúcio (Cape Verde)
Sly & Robbie feat. Junior Reid (Jamaica)
Aziz Sahmaoui & University of Gnawa (Morocco / Senegal)
Kumpania Algazarra (Portugal)
2012
July 19-28 | Castle, Beach Stage and Sines’ Arts Centre | Audience: ca. 80000-90000
Amélia Muge & Michales Loukovikas “Periplus” (Portugal / Greece)
Narasirato (Solomon Islands)
Otis Taylor Band (USA)
Bombino (Niger – Tuareg People)
Osso Vaidoso (Portugal)
Al-Madar (Lebanon / USA)
L’Enfance Rouge & Lotfi Bouchnak (France / Italy / Tunisia)
Frigg (Finland)
Nortec Collective Presents: Clorofila + Los Mezcaleros de la Sierra (Mexico)
Dead Combo feat. Marc Ribot (Portugal / USA)
Oumou Sangaré & Béla Fleck (Mali / USA)
Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos (USA)
Imperial Tiger Orchestra & Hamelmal Abate (Switzerland / Ethiopia)
Shangaan Electro (South Africa)
Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang (USA)
Ensemble Notte della Taranta (Italy – Puglia)
Bilan (Cape Verde)
Couple Coffee (Portugal / Brazil)
Dubioza Kolektiv (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Astillero (Argentina)
Fatoumata Diawara (Mali)
Staff Benda Bilili (D. R. Congo)
Uxu Kalhus (Portugal)
Diabo a Sete (Portugal)
Kouyaté-Neerman (France / Mali)
Dhafer Youssef Quartet (Tunisia)
Mari Boine (Norway – Sami People)
Zita Swoon Group (Belgium / Burkina Faso)
JuJu (Gambia / United Kingdom)
Orquestra Todos (Portugal)
Socalled (Canada)
Hugh Masekela (South Africa)
Tony Allen’s “Black Series” feat. Amp Fiddler (Nigeria / USA)
Jupiter & Okwess International (D. R. Congo)
Lirinha (Brazil)
