They’re sure not your daughter’s K-pop band! The nine-piece South Korean ensemble ADG7 (aka Ak Dan Gwang Chil) draws equal inspiration from the sacred and shamanistic soul of newly reclaimed Korean folk styles gut (ritual music) and minyo, and the comical trappings of K-pop, for a TD Sunfest ‘23 party that will surprise you with its raucous, danceable energy.

Javier Alcántara is one of the most outstanding composers and guitarists of his generation. Proof of this is the Spanish jazz innovator’s 2019 album Ikigai (a Japanese concept that translates as “reason for being”), which was his third work as a leader and the last of a dazzling trilogy that began in 2014 with Short Stories and continued in 2016 with Resilience.

Luna Ersahin has a voice, a personality, and an artistically beautiful temperament that instantly wins you over. As the global ensemble AySay, Luna and her two bandmates Aske Døssing Bendixen and Carl West Hosbond create a deeply fascinating, smooth and bridge-building style of indie folk, sung in Turkish, Danish and Kurdish, and incorporating elements of traditional Anatolian music and modern Western pop.

Balaklava Blues is the brainchild of Mark and Marichka Marczyk, leaders of Canada’s mighty Lemon Bucket Orkestra and creators of the multi-award-winning guerrilla folk opera Counting Sheep.

Hailing from the port city of Tumaco in the southwestern corner of Colombia, Bejuco augments traditional hometown música pacifica with various global sounds, especially Afrobeat, to concoct a tasty new style called Bambucobeat.

Chola y Gitano is a Chilean global music duo consisting of Belén Rojas and Damián Gallardo and based in Punta Brava, on the beautiful coast of Valdivia.

Take a blazing five-piece horn section, throw down some bombastic drums, pepper in piano and guitar, then stir in vocals (from Rebecca Noelle and Jeff Rogers) – shifting from sweet to soulful to sultry quicker than you can hop onto the dance floor.

Being a woman in Guatemala is an act of resistance. Being a Kaqchikel Mayan woman and artist in Guatemala is an even bolder political statement, but at the same time, a radical gesture towards life, and this is the best way to introduce Sara Curruchich.

With a name that means "give/take,” celebrated Ukrainian-folk-meets-punk band DakhaBrakha (Nina Garenetska, Marko Halanevych, Iryna Kovalenko and Olena Tsybulska) explores all kinds of old Ukrainian folk styles and other far-reaching global sounds, refracted through the prism of the 21st century and with a highly honed sense of showmanship.

Master percussionist, author, composer and performer Élage Diouf moved from Senegal to Quebec, Canada a quarter century ago to pursue a music career that continues to flourish today.

Eagle Flight Singers are a professional First Nations group based in and around London, Ontario, but with an extensive travel history in the Great Lakes region and beyond. Honored as World Music Group of the Year at the 2018 Forest City London Music Awards, the ensemble consists of fathers, sons and close friends of Plains Cree, Ojibway, and Haudenosaunee descent.

Valérie Ékoumè is a Paris-born Cameroonian singer who can knock out a pop ballad with nothing but her own piano as accompaniment just as easily as she can slide into a Makossa-influenced vamp and bring an audience to its feet.

In the history of salsa, not all `salseros' have been male artists, and Marta Elena is one of the notable exceptions. A first-class singer, composer, percussionist and band leader (Marta Elena y Su Orquesta), she belongs to a younger generation of Cuban musicians who are happy to honour the island nation's Afro-Latin musical roots while looking for new ways to express the music that courses through their country's veins.

In the African Bantu language, the word enkelé means wisdom, illumination and starlight – the perfect name for a band of eleven talented women from across Colombia who sing about their land, their ancestors and the problem of machismo.

Feet stomping and everybody moving. Grooves for days. Monster horns. Crushing percussion. Shredding psych-rock guitars. These are among the elements that make the Five Alarm Funk experience so cherished at TD Sunfest.

Forged deep in the forests of northern Sweden, the music of Fränder beckons to all acoustic folk fans at TD Sunfest ‘23 who appreciate great musicianship, humour and harmonies.

The Garifuna Collective was co-founded and led by the late Andy Palacio (1960–2008), a musician dedicated to preserving the unique Garifuna language and culture (Andy made one of his last festival appearances at Sunfest ’08). Garifuna are descendants of the Afro-indigenous population from the Caribbean island of St. Vincent who were exiled to the Honduran coast in the 18th century and subsequently moved to Belize.

Imagine this…Kraków band Hańba travel through a divided 1930s Poland, in a concept work that chronicles punk’s emergence in this frenetic period, rather than some 40 years later.

French-born vocalist and instrumentalist Sevana Tchakerian (ex-member of Parisian alt-folk group Collectif Medz Bazaar) and Armenian-born guitarist and producer Gor Tadevosyan comprise JINJ, a boundary-pushing band that is a pioneer of the new Armo-Beat genre, intertwining Armenian folk music with hip-hop and electronic sounds, and sung in French, Armenian and English.

Na Kozonga: I’m going home. That is Jupiter’s main wish, and the title of his third album. Since the release of their two previous recordings, Hotel Univers and Kin Sonic, ‘the Rebel General’ and his band Okwess have been around the globe, making their presence felt across its four corners – the rockiest sound ever to emerge from the Democratic Republic of Congo!