Sigtryggur Baldursson Invited To Be A Womex Samurai

Former Sugarcube and all-round Icelandic music veteran Sigtryggur Baldursson has been chosen to sit on the jury for the prestigious Womex festival, held this year in Sevilla between October 29th-November 2nd, 2008.
Baldursson, a practicing musician/producer and part owner of label Smekkleysa (Bad Taste)/former Sugarcubes alumni, is very active in the music scene in Iceland, collaborating with many local artists as well as running his own projects Steintryggur and Parabola and calypso act Bogomil Font.
He also sits on the board of the Iceland Music Export office and FTT, the Icelandic music writers and lyricists ass.
Sigtyggur will join six other “samurais” from Italy, India/UK, Germany, France, USA/Mexico and the Netherlands. The jury will meet in Berlin Friday 23 - Sunday 25 May 2008. The process is to select at least 30 of the showcases and consult on the conference sessions.
Part of Sigtryggur’s task as jury member will be to encourage his favorite artists, conference speakers and/or their representatives to make showcase and conference session proposals.
Source:
www.icelandicmusic.is
Parabola @ www.myspace.com/risatrommur
"Electric Station"
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=12631508

Steintryggur @www.myspace.com/steintryggur
"I don't get it"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkGhxSP2W9M