Another Sky is a London-based festival and artistic platform celebrating experimental music from the SWANA (South West Asia & North Africa) region and diaspora. We present composed, improvised and electronic music; short films and moving-image works; new commissions; workshops and an independent label & publisher fair. We are delighted to host NO HAY BANDA – long-time collaborators, extraordinary creative thinkers, community leaders and performers – for their UK debut, in celebration of their receipt of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Ensemble Prize 2026. Together we present a programme which includes three commissions which have been developed closely with the composers throughout 2026, by Dali de Saint Paul, Lucie Nezri and Sam Salem.
https://anotherskyfestival.com

NO HAY BANDA is a Montreal-based organization committed to the production and performance of music rooted in exploratory and avant-garde practices. NO HAY BANDA presents an annual concert series in Montreal that features a variety of local and visiting artists, and represents a flexible ensemble of musicians – a “house band” of sorts – that performs and tours original productions. Throughout these activities, NO HAY BANDA aims to provide a space for artists working on the fringes of established genres to realize projects that would not take place otherwise. Furthermore, NO HAY BANDA records and produces albums that are released on the in-house record label, No Hay Discos.
nohaybanda.ca

Supported by Arts Council England, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Marchus Trust, Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.