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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 16 AUGUST 2015 32 This Week MUSIC AUGUST 16 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 19 Live Jazz at Palazzo de Piro Due to popular demand Live Jazz Wednesdays in summer are back, featuring renowned jazz players in live trios and quartets who will de- liver sterling sets of diversely faceted jazz material. The repertoire in these three-hour sessions, between 20:00 and 23:00, promises to travel a broad range. Entrance is free of charge. To book call on 2010 0560 e-mailing events@xarapalace.com.mt 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. LITERATURE AUGUST 20 Lejliet Letterarji – Nadia Mifsud Author Nadia Mifsud will read her own works at Bondo Nyah in Mar- sascala. Event is free of charge and begins at 20:00. MISCELLANEOUS AUGUST 21 FAA Musical Summer Party Environmental NGO Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar organise a mu- sical summer party on Friday 21 Au- gust at Villa Mekrech, Għaxaq. This privately-owned Baroque villa has a garden which is being opened to the public for the first time in recogni- tion of FAA's ongoing campaign to save the garden from development. Admission fee: FAA members €38, non-members €40. Proceeds will go towards the costs of FAA's campaign to save Villa Mekrech gardens. Ad- dress: Triq Santa Marija, (facing the parish church facade) corner with Sqaq no. 2. Event starts at 19:30. Bookings: https://ticketengine.faa. org.mt/. AUGUST 30 Malta Artisan Summer Market 2015 Artisan market at Palazzo Parisio, Naxxar at 18:00. Featuring jewellery, home decor, cards, toys and local delicacies. WHAT'S ON The Black-winged Stilts (Fras-servjent) have done it again. These elegant, extralong-legged shorebirds have in recent years become special darlings for BirdLife Malta since they first nested in 2011 at Għadira nature reserve. This year was no exception, with a total of four strapping youths (two pictured) growing up and getting ready for migration. I never fail to be amazed that a pair or two of these long-distance travellers take off from equatorial Africa in spring and fly 4000km across savannah, desert and sea. They have the pick of thousands of lakes and lagoons around southern Europe and yet they choose Għadira – a pond by comparison – to set up home, lay and incubate eggs for a month, and raise a family of leggy chicks. All this just 100m from a beach teeming with people, speedboats, paragliders, AFM helicopters zooming overhead, loud music, bright lights and the almost constant roar of traffic from an even nearer arterial road. Imagine, just imagine, the potential if that tiny nature reserve was, say, three times bigger! 467. GĦADIRA AND THE STILTS 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 Sandro Zerafa, Carlo Muscat and Oliver Degabriele live at Surfside