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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 9 AUGUST 2015 32 This Week MUSIC AUGUST 12 Sandro Zerafa/Carlo Muscat/ Oliver Degabriele – Live at Surfside Jazz concert at Surfside, Sliema from 20:00. Featuring Sandro Zera- fa, Carlo Muscat and Oliver De- gabriele. AUGUST 20 Strada Stretta Events: Ghannejja fil-Belt Valletta Strada Stretta Events in collabo- ration with Valletta 2018 Founda- tion presents an evening of folklore music at Strait Street, Valletta from 20:00. Featuring: John Saliba, Frans Casha, Victor Grech, Anglu Theu- ma, Joe Grech, Joe Zerafa, Grezzju Dalli, Michael Cumbo and Yvette Buhagiar. AUGUST 21 Cryptic Street Debut Ep Launch Alternative rock band Cryptic Street will be launching their debut EP at Palazzo De La Salle, Valletta at 19:30. AUGUST 21 Etnika – footnotes Newly reformed Maltese world music group Etnika will perform a comeback gig at Blue Box, M Space, Msida at 21:00. Bookings: www. bluebox.com.mt. AUGUST 28, 29 Bewildered Music Festival Alternative music festival at Pjazza Teatru Rjal, Valletta at 20:00. Fea- turing Indie/Dreamy pop band BIG DEAL, Italian/London based shoegaze outfit Leave The Planet, Metaphysical rock band Plato's Dream Machine, Alternative-Rock band Fastidju, Maltese/Berlin based electronic musician Jim Hickey, and Dark Electronic/Dream trio CHI- NA. Doors open at 19:00. First act starts at 20:00. Last act finishes at 23:00. August 28 lineup: Jim Hickey, Plato's Dream Machine, Leave The Planet. August 29 lineup: CHINA, Fastidju, BIG DEAL. AUGUST 29 Tribali live in concert World music band Tribali will be performing at Boiler Wharf, Isla at 20:00. Tickets: General €10, VIP €25, Under 14: free. Bookings: www. ticketline.com.mt. SEPTEMBER 4 Cliff Zammit Stevens Concert with MPO Tenor Cliff Zammit Stevens will perform at Pjazza Teatru Rjal, Val- letta at 20:00. Also featuring guest soprano Hannah Sandison, who will be performing duets with Cliff. The duo will be backed up by the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Australian conductor Mro Natalie Murray Beale. Tickets will be available from www.ticketline. com.mt soon. WHAT'S ON TODAY Delicata Classic Wine Festival 2015 The Delicata Classic Wine Festival is back for its 14th year, at the Upper Barrakka Gardens in Valletta from 19:00 until midnight. Three weeks later on August 28, 29 and 30 it happens all over again in Nadur, Gozo. At both festivals the way it works is simple – Entrance is free but if you want to drink wine, you just purchase a wristband and a souvenir glass (which is then yours to keep) and try as many of the twenty wines on offer as you like, as often as you like. The last glasses will be sold at 11.00pm, last wine poured at 11.30pm and the festivals close at midnight. No glasses will be sold or alcohol poured to anyone under the age of 17. Kinemastik Film Festival Kinemastik International Short Film Festival is turning 11 this year at Garden of Rest, Floriana from 20:00. There will be short films, music and "probably some fish". For more information log on to: www.kinemastik.org. Acoustic Night Concert in aid of the Reaching Cambodia Project at Haywharf, Valletta at 19:30. Featuring Claudia Faniello & Band, Planet Seed, Klinsmann and The Voyage. Entrance is against a minimum donation of €5. Religious feasts The feast of St Lawrence (San Lawrenz, Gozo) will be celebrated today. Birds of prey are medium-to-large powerful predators that dominate the food pyramid of the bird world. But even among the (generally) smaller, milder-looking perching birds there is a small group with rather hawk-like features: the shrikes. Shrikes have powerful hooked beaks that they use to tear up their catch, usually large insects like bumblebees, grasshoppers or dragonflies, or small reptiles like lizards – the larger shrikes wouldn't pass up a mouse either. Only a handful or so of shrike species live or migrate in our part of the world and none are particularly common. The species most likely to feature on a Maltese birder's list is the woodchat shrike (M: kaccamendula). It is a spring and autumn visitor but occasionally a pair stop and nest as well. Shrikes have this rather grisly habit of impaling their prey on thorny branches 'for later', just like meats hung up on hooks at the butcher's. In some parts of the world, shrikes are in fact known as butcher birds. 466. WOODCHAT SHRIKE GREEN IDEA OF THE WEEK 370: FIND OUT MORE – WWW.FOEMALTA.ORG/LINKS/TTIP Visit Friends of the Earth's website for more information about our work, as well as for information about how to join us. You can also support us by sending us a donation - www.foemalta.org/donate Text Victor Falzon Photo Aron Tanti Cryptic Street