The Jeonju Int'l Sori Festival is an international music festival
that showcases various foreign traditional music and world
music centering around Korean traditional music including
Pansori (which has been registered as a Masterpiece of
Oral and Intangible Heritages of Humanity by UNESCO
since 2003), and promotes exchange among them.
The Jeonju Int'l Sori Festival, which showcased its
first stage in 2001, has done its best not only to bring
out the real value of Korean traditional music on the
elegant stages of the greatest musical artists, but also
preserve its original forms, and search for what Korean
traditional music in the future,through various creative
works and interchange with new artists in many genres.
The Jeonju Int'l Sori Festival is held every fall in the Sori Arts
Center of Jeollabuk-do and Jeonju Hanok Village in Jeonju, 'the most Korean city'. It consists of public events, including opening and closing ceremonies,planned programs, formal invitational programs, and other various incidental and associated programs such as Sori Fringe, Sori Festival for Kids (Kidzone), Master Classes of Masters and Master Sori Artists, and other workshops.
Since 2011, with the two commissioner system of Park Kolleen and Kim Hyeongseok, the organizing committee of the Jeonju Int'l Sori Festival has tried to bring Korean traditional music to the public and provide a special place where contemporary various music from all over the world will be harmonized, centering around Korean traditional music. The 2012 Jeonju Int'l Sori Festival has been chosen as one of '25 of the Best World Music Festivals' by Songlines, the professional British world music magazine, which means that it is becoming a world-level festival beyond that of Jeollabuk-do, or Korea.
that showcases various foreign traditional music and world
music centering around Korean traditional music including
Pansori (which has been registered as a Masterpiece of
Oral and Intangible Heritages of Humanity by UNESCO
since 2003), and promotes exchange among them.
The Jeonju Int'l Sori Festival, which showcased its
first stage in 2001, has done its best not only to bring
out the real value of Korean traditional music on the
elegant stages of the greatest musical artists, but also
preserve its original forms, and search for what Korean
traditional music in the future,through various creative
works and interchange with new artists in many genres.
The Jeonju Int'l Sori Festival is held every fall in the Sori Arts
Center of Jeollabuk-do and Jeonju Hanok Village in Jeonju, 'the most Korean city'. It consists of public events, including opening and closing ceremonies,planned programs, formal invitational programs, and other various incidental and associated programs such as Sori Fringe, Sori Festival for Kids (Kidzone), Master Classes of Masters and Master Sori Artists, and other workshops.
Since 2011, with the two commissioner system of Park Kolleen and Kim Hyeongseok, the organizing committee of the Jeonju Int'l Sori Festival has tried to bring Korean traditional music to the public and provide a special place where contemporary various music from all over the world will be harmonized, centering around Korean traditional music. The 2012 Jeonju Int'l Sori Festival has been chosen as one of '25 of the Best World Music Festivals' by Songlines, the professional British world music magazine, which means that it is becoming a world-level festival beyond that of Jeollabuk-do, or Korea.
