Mega Concert With Jeonju Int'l SORI Festival!
Jeonju Int'l Sori Festival and a Korean classical music program of 'I Love Gukak' of the WBS (Won Buddhism Broadcasting System) meet on a stage. It is an open broadcast starring Kim Yongwoo (folk song), Kim Aera (haegeum), Choi Jun(Pansori), Geomungo Factory and famous K-pop artists.
Time & Date : 18:00 ~ 20:30, Oct. 12(Sun)
Venue : Front stage of Gyeonggigeon, Jeonju Hanok Village
University Changgeuk (Korean Classical Opera)
Time & Date : 14:00, 18:00, Oct. 10(Fri)~12(Sun)
Venue : Sori Culture Hall, Jeonju Hanok Village
Price : Free
'Eolssiguna Soriya', changgeuk created by Dankook University students Dankook University, 'one of the top university changgeuk groups' has made a new attempt with a slightly unfamiliar slogan, 'storytelling style musical' in order to open a way for traditional Korean opera.
'Eolssiguna Soriya', their first work, to be staged for the first time at the Sori Festival is a newly created traditional sori play based on the storytelling technique. Based on two Pansori stories 'Chunhyang-ga' and 'Heungbo-ga', protagonists 'Sori', 'Bangja', and 'Hyangdan' take the Pansori journey. The story begins with the advertisement of the 'Ad-man', one of the characters, and the protagonists unexpectedly fall deeply into the world of Pansori at the Pansori show news.
They learn Pansori-related terms like gosu (drummer), chuimsae (melodious response to the sori artist), aniri (epic chant), etc. through various games like quiz shows, with which they are in tune with other actors and actresses. They also present Pansori not just with a drummer but also with a gugak orchestra. They end the play with a sharmanistic ritual based on the theme of morality of 'Heungbo-ga'.
'Bari', changgeuk recreated by students of Chonbuk National University The changgeuk 'Bari', created by CBNU students combines the elements of gugak music and changgeuk. It offers quite a rare chance to appreciate new kinds of changgeuk that university students made with their consistent passion and strong will, even when facing harsh conditions.
Bari legend is recreated to enable the audience to understand easily, by allocating the role of aniri to 'Clown', another character. The characters of Korean traditional opera wear masks to maximize each scene, and their costumes are made of Hanji, one of the traditional local specialties of Jeonju City, which is an effort to instil the uniqueness of our region. You will feel fortunate just watching their creative piece and standing at the scene full of their passion.
Once upon a time, there lived Ogu the great, in Jeonju, Jeollado. At last he turned seventeen and it was high time to choose his queen. When the king asked about his divination sign to a fortune teller Garisogyeong, it was predicted that the king would have seven princesses when he married that year, and three princes the next year. Disregarding the fortune teller's warning, he hastily chose and married Gildae, only to have seven princesses as the shaman's prophesy had said. Ogu the great, who desperately wanted to have sons became angry and gave a newborn baby the name 'Baridegi' and cast her away at sea. When she became 15, the king developed a disease. As she heard that her father's life could be saved by drinking life-saving water in India and putting flowers in his eyes, she departed on her journey immediately to find the water.
Tanemotion
Time & Date : 16:00, Oct. 11(Sat)
Venue : Norimadang, Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do
Juris Kuns, Haegeum Band
Centered on haegeum player Kim Juri, the band consists of acoustic guitar, bass guitar, janggu and other percussions. They not only control the rough, strong tone, but also lyrical expression. It is an unrivaled team that can control the big alteration of both oriental and western instruments. It's an appreciable team and opens a new way for haegeum performance.
Time & Date : 16:00, Oct. 9(Thu)
Venue : Norimadang, Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do
A Fairy and a Woodcutter - Dancing Well Bucket An ardent love story in a fairytale-like and fantastic atmosphere
You may be mistaken if you imagine the well-known story 'The Fairy and The Woodcutter'. This is about a young couple who are looking for their true love who meet their love and fight against conspiracies and conflicts to accomplish their own love. Its vivid and suspenseful modern love story will hold your breath. It's a perfect performance for your family as it provides fun as well as a life lesson.
'A Fairy and A Woodcutter--Dancing Well Bucket' will be on the stage of the Sori Festival. Though not professionals, citizens of Wanju County have prepared this stage, with a performance that is more humane and common. Of course, professionals have advised them on how to do their best.
The love story that has been handed down in Wanju County is newly interpreted and born as a gugak musical. This is the first 'resident-participating musical'. 'The Fairy and the Woodcutter--Dancing Well Bucket' has made the region restless among residents and at last is on the stage of the Sori Festival. A new kind of performance where professionals and non-professionals come together.
Time & Date : 14:00, Oct. 8(Wed), Oct. 9(Thu)
Venue : Yeonji Hall, Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do
Surisuri Mahasuri
You will fall into us - bound by their spell
They are from Morocco and play a variety of instruments from all around the world. This will offer a great time to enjoy the charming mysterious sounds of 'Omar' and 'darbucca', folk instruments of Central Asia and North Africa. It is a unique band combining the Middle East folk music with the furtive Korean sense.
Time & Date : 16:00, Oct. 10(Fri), Oct. 9(Thu)
Venue : Norimadang, Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do
Price : Free
Delivering the extraordinary energy of Pakistani music
Avoid familiar music! It's the music waking up your hidden senses! World music group 'TAAL' visits the Sori Festival to display unfamiliar Pakistani music and its energy for our audience. Based on their excellent performing ability, they will find the best point and play the Korean folk song 'Seodo sori', and Qawwali, traditional Pakistani music, with a more modernized and refined way using more impromptu elements. It is a famous world music band which consists of a unique vocalist Geunaseong who is very well-known among fans, Gu Seongmo who makes mysterious tunes with the tablā (traditional Indian instrument), Yang Seunghwan who plays the harmonium freely, and Kim Jiwon who has learned 'Seodo sori' of Gyeonggi-do for several years. It is a great band that doesn't allow its audience to look away, with its own distinctive colors and unprecedented energy.
Time & Date : 19:00, Oct. 11(Sat)
Venue : Front Stage of Gyeonggigeon, Jeonju Hanok village
Price : Free
Time & Date : 13:00, Oct. 12(Sun)
Venue : Rest Area of Taejoro, Jeonju Hanok village
Price : Free
Pork Feast (by Ugeumchi, a madanggeuk group) A festive pan where the audience and performers become one and talk about 'peace'
Ugeumchi, a madanggeuk group (performances in the yard), will visit the Sori Festival with its large scale fantastic outdoor performance. Ugeumchi has the belief that preciousness exists in our traditional artefacts, so it creates and performs madanggeuk where the motives of our national emotion is melted, such as traditional music, myths, and traditional folk tales.
'The Pork Feast' which is going to be on the stage of the Sori Festival is a yard performance which prays for the reunion of the two Koreas and reconciliation and peace. It is prepared for a family audience where they can participate in and enjoy it regardless of their age and sex. It depicts the sad history of Korea, the only separated nation in the world, the madness of wars, and the preciousness of peace. It is a madanggeuk where eastern and western music harmonize beautifully and the audience and performers become one to dance and sing together in this feast.
Time & Date : 19:00, Oct. 11(Sat)
Venue : Norimadang, Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do
Price : Free
Suri, Folk Music Association
A special concert where tradition and modern music breathe together Suri is a music group where young Korean classical musicians gather together with the aim to change the understanding of our traditional music. This stage consists of an exciting performance of its members including Nam Sang-il. The combinations of its instruments bearing a close resemblance to a classical Korean orchestra and its programs with a modern sense will pull down the stereotypes towards Korean classical music.
Time & Date : 19:00, Oct. 8(Wed)
Venue : Norimadang, Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do
Price : Free
A Music World to Open with Master Sori Artist Wang Giseok Top star of changgeuk, outstanding performance and vocal
Jeollabuk-do's leading sori master Wang Giseok's sori opens the door to a new world. Master Wang, who makes people cry and laugh with his exciting sori, has always dreamed of a world where he communicates, understands, and considers each person with Pansori. This year, he is going to show 'Song of Jeonju Dialect' and a livelier song 'From Pansori Shimcheong-ga' at the Sori Festival. Master Wang, the leader of Korean traditional opera, has been a member of the National Changgeuk Institute, and is now the director of the Gugak Group of Jeongeup City. He received the President's Award of Pansori sori master at the national contest of the 13th Jeonju Daesaseup Nori. He finished the course of Sugung-ga, the fifth important intangible cultural property, and is an honorable winner of the Pansori section of the Grand 1999 KBS Seoul Gugak Contest. We invite the audience to master Wang's own unique world where he does his best as a Pansori artist.
Time & Date : 19:00, Oct. 9(Thu)
Venue : Norimadang, Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do
Price : Free
Lee Changseon Daegeum Style A young and passionate band which pursues the expansion of daegeum play
Lee Changseon Daegeum Style is a young and passionate band to strive for the expansion of daegeum playing. It has a high level of playing ability and popularity suited to building fan groups in other regions. It consists of daegeum, guitar, bass, and drum. It combines Korean lyricism of daegeum with musical elements of a jazz band. The band was selected as the Young Art Frontier of the Arts Council Korea in 2009, and was viewed over 200,000 times in section of gugak on youtube.com. Their first album 'A Dreaming Boy' has sold over 4,000 copies and the team has quite a large number of fans nationwide.
Time & Date : 16:00, Oct. 12(Sun)
Venue : Norimadang, Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do
Price : Free
Dongnampung Fervent traditional music, passionate percussion energy
Dongnampung (South-eastern wind) is the pride of Jeollabuk-do and the representative percussion group of Gunsan City delivering exuberating reverberation through samulnori. Dongnampung, who passionately love Korean music, play various repertories from traditional to creative percussions while spouting passionate energy. Based on pungmulgut of Honamwudo and composed of young percussionists, its samulnori has been highly evaluated to show different tastes from the original. They will show off the wealth of their accumulated ability.
Time & Date : 16:30, Oct. 8(Wed)
Venue : Norimadang, Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do
Price : Free
Binari is strongly ritualistic, using prayers the melodies of samul and songs of idioms and words of blessing. In binari, there are stories of the history of world creation, salpuri (exorcism), aekpuri (dispelling evil), and prayers and words of blessing, which notify the beginning of the performance praying for the comfort and well-being of all the people. It begins the performance by stepping the earth god after passing the audience and playing deongdeokung melodies on the stage.
Collecting representative pungmul gut melodies of three provinces, they play sitting on the ground, which is the representative samulnori most people are reminded of. At the beginning, they played 'Yeongnam nongak', 'utdari pungmul', and 'Honam wudo gut' separately. Now they play combining it all. 'Nongak melody of three provinces' embraces the principles of yin and yang and the natural reason latent in our melodies with deep and wide breaths learned and accumulated through a long history.
Sori Master Lee Yongseon, Jeollabuk-do's representative sori artist meets Humans, an Indi Band
Sori artist Lee Yongseon has worked as a vocal of 'Ogamdo' a fusion gugak group, and is a competent sori artist who has great ability in different genres of songs as well as traditional Pansori. She insists that her sori is a strong and firm shouting to comfort the world and herself. Her sincere comfort is one of the reasons the audience continuously visits her concerts. Sori artist Lee will give the audience a deep impression and hope through the 2014 Sori Festival.
Humans, who sing about the human mind and emit a fragrance full of humanistic values, will be on the Sori Festival stage. Crossing electric and acoustic sounds freely, their exuberating and splendid stage presents a pleasant day to the young who want to relieve stress. At the breathless moment, Humans want to play music to give 'breath' and to be 'a shelter'. It is a competent band from Jeollabuk-do which has taken over the Hongdae district which is the mecca of indie bands. Their merit is that they are quite explosive on the stage, but equally very comfortable like a family.
Time & Date : 16:00, Oct. 11(Sat)
Venue : Front Stage of Gyeonggigeon, Jeonju Hanok village
Price : Free
Jeonju Flag Battle Nori Jeollabuk-do's representative traditional art, flags' movement full of vigorous spirit
'Jeonju flag battle nori', Jeollabuk-do's representative traditional art, is a folk play held in several villages of Pyeonghwa-dong and Samcheon-dong of Jeonju City for the peace and union of the residents, which is called 'dragon flag nori' as well. It was popular even during Japanese rule, but ceased in about 1956. It resumed in 1974 and has continued on Baekjung day (the Buddhist All Souls' Day, the 15th of the 7th lunar month) every year. The big dragon flags of 5.5m x 4m, flying at 6 meters high, fly in danger of falling down, but boast their luxurious performance to which pungmulnori and individual nori are followed. A gut is held in a wide yard, and is followed by a dragon flag relay, dragon flag nori, and dragon flag battle. At last all the residents and the pungmul band join to make hapgut, a gut made by, with, and for all the people. It's been evaluated as one of the representative folk cultures, and its artistry has also been recognized by winning the gold medal in the Jeollabuk-do Folk Arts Festival.
Time & Date : 16:00, Oct. 10(Fri)
Venue : Front Stage of Gyeonggigeon, Jeonju Hanok village
Price : Free
Cheongchuneoram (Art-ta, Interactive Art Company)
Interactive art company 'Art-ta' is an ebullient young artist group pursuing a new type of arts through intercrossing various genres of music with those of traditional gugak. By harmonizing tradition and modernity and fusing different genres, they make stages in which we can communicate with the present time we live in. In 2012, they showed their first performance to represent the young local artists, and they have performed numerous shows on foreign as well as domestic stages. At the 2014 Sori Festival, they will come with their ambitious work 'Cheongchuneoram'. It focuses on the ordinary days of young people who always hesitate and lose all precious things as if they could live everlastingly.
Time & Date : 16:00, Oct. 10(Fri)
Venue : Front Stage of Gyeonggigeon, Jeonju Hanok village
Price : Free
'Gangneung Nongak', Invited Performance at Gangneung Danoje Festival Representative Korean traditional nongak conserving its own local color
Gangneung Danoje Festival and Jeonju Int'l Sori Festival, traditional arts festivals representing the east and the west, have met for the past three years. The Committee of Gangneung Danoje Festival will show 'Gangneung Nongak' which has been handed down from the Youngdong region, located to the east of the Taebaek mountains, on the 2014 Sori Festival stage. It has been developed with the folklore, folk songs, and folk beliefs of the rugged mountain area, and it is worth noting that it has done its utmost to conserve its local features. In particular, they show the whole process of farming culture by depicting ploughing rice fields, rice planting, weeding, harvesting, and threshing with their own dance styles. These are unique and can be seen only in Gangneung Nongak and that causes the audience to become more excited and feel more joy. Gangneung Nongak consists of light and fast rhythm features welcoming gut (a kind of exorcism) of the full moon, torch nori, stepping bridges, and gilnori nongak of Daegwallyeong Guksa Seonangje. It also comprises ten pungmul players including kkwaenggwari, gong, a double-headed drum with a narrow waist in the middle, drum, and taepyeongso (conical oboe), and 36~50 members who play drums used in Buddhist temples, small drums, and mudong (children who dance on the shoulders of the leader). Gangneung Nongak was designated as the retainer of the 11-4 important intangible cultural property in December 1985, and has performed its permanent or invited shows over 70 times a year.
Time & Date : 16:00, Oct. 9(Thu)
Venue : Norimadang, Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do
Price : Free
Chitadae of the school of the blind and the deaf Touching stages appearing more clearly when closing your eyes
It'll be a precious time to meet a touching stage of the challenged. When you close your eyes, your appreciation will become deeper. Jeollabuk-do's Chitadae which consists of blind students, learn and practice daechita to hand down and transfer traditional sori. Intense efforts and endless practice have made them great at daechita. Nowadays they are being invited to many festivals and competitions to move the audience. They become a ray of light and offer a great opportunity to appreciate their precious performance which carves thick emotions touching our hearts.
Time & Date : 16:00, Oct. 8(Wed)
Venue : Norimadang, Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do
Price : Free
Tory's New taste of traditional music met with a cappella
'Is it hard to make a chord with traditional music?' Here are some young musicians who break this stereotype nicely with their passion and tenacity. Five voices become one to make abundant and beautiful harmony. Their new efforts cause us to expect that Tory's will go out toward the world interacting with their contemporaries. Each member is competent and the team's ensemble is great enough to express Korean music such as Pansori and folk songs with a cappella.
They are ready to grow as world class musicians with various colors of their voice and their bold experience to express the variety of music. On the border of tradition and modernity, they actively absorb not only Korean music but also a variety of music from around the world.
Time & Date : 16:00, Oct. 9(Thu)
Venue : Norimadang, Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do
Price : Free
Bulsechul Pursuing newness and expanding familiarity
Bulsechul is a team comprising eight gugak players that formed in 2006. Not losing the uniqueness of traditional music, the team carries out musical experiments to transform each gugak instrument utilizing colorful resources and forms of tradition. Bulsechul expands the melodies of shaman music, folk songs, sanjo, etc. which developed over a long period of time into a new form with an impromptu performance. That is, they try to expand familiarity as well as pursue newness to make their own music. Based on the traditional beat, they adhere to the cooperative creation of music so that each of them can maximize their skills to perform the musical pieces as close to perfection as possible. They constantly carry the hope that people will gain some momentum or inspiration to look at ordinary life anew through their music.
Time & Date : 16:00, Oct. 11(Sat)
Venue : Norimadang, Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do
Price : Free
Moksuto (tree, water, earth) Harmony made with various genres of traditional music
Gugak group 'Moksuto' is a musical group which reveals people's characteristics with various music, with which they want to develop overseas markets based on traditional music. They utilize the unique features of various genres of music such as Pansori, jeong-ga, folk songs, percussion and gut as much as possible, and input more to make a new harmony. Maximizing and reinterpreting the features of Korean music, they always pursue the music with which they can communicate with the modern era.
Time & Date : 16:00, Oct. 12(Sun)
Venue : Norimadang, Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do
Price : Free
Why does Nolbu step out? (Jeonbuk Theatre Cooperative) Pleasant stage taken over by competent actors and actresses
Jeonbuk Theatre Cooperative was established in 2013. It is the first cultural arts cooperative to be founded in Jeollabuk-do, and this year, they will have an outdoor show with the most humorous scenes of Heungbu-ga centering around 'Hwachojang Taryeong' in the Sori Festival. Hearing the news that his younger brother Heungbu became rich, Nolbu, being jealous, lured him with a nonsensical scheme.... With strong characters taking the pleasant stage, the audience can experience a completely new type of Heungbu-ga. Jeonbuk Theatre Cooperative has showed various performances for job-creating businesses of the Dream Performance Art Group that Jeollabuk-do supports and has carried out visiting performances for outlying regions.
"What? Did you say that Heungbu became rich all of a sudden?"
No one with a hasty temper can beat me, as I am Nolbu! Envying his brother's success he rushes off to his brother holding his painful stomach.
"Ha ha, Nolbu, That man is too odd. He asked his brother to come here or go over there. He despises his brother more, as if his brother were a servant. In addition, he is so full of guile that he shouts "Hey, Heungbu, did you steal the fortune at night?"
As foul as his mind is, he is greedy. Discovering hwachojang (a luxurious piece of furniture), his pupils becoming larger and larger. He begs, "Hey little brother, my lovely brother! That hwachojang, give it to me~~~"
Time & Date : 16:00, Oct. 11(Sat)
Venue : Front Stage of Gyeonggigeon, Jeonju Hanok village
Price : Free