Andrew Alamango

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Andrew Alamango is a guitarist, composer and music promoter from Malta, who has been active since the 1990s.

He is a co-founder of the modern folk group Etnika. Following Ruben Zahra's departure to Oakland in August 2000, in order to further his musical studies, Alamango took over Etnika's management and project concept development. Under his aegis, Etnika presented six highly successful annual events between 2001 and 2007. Alamango is known for his musical versality, having performed with the traditional Maltese żummara, flejguta, tanbur and guitar to the mandolin and oud.

Andrew Alamango performing during the Valletta Festival, April 2002

In September 2002 Alamango took part in a conference on intangible heritage organised by the Gibraltar Museum. He then partecipated in the Tradicionarius International Music Festival held in Seville and Barcelona in March 2003.

In July 2003 Alamango and Etnika launched the album Żifna at the Bedouin Bar in St Julians.

Following Etnika's temporary disbandment, due when several main musicians sought better musical opportunities on the European mainland, Alamango embarked on a project to recuperate Malta's early musical recordings. In 2010 he undertook the restoration and eventual re-release of thirty 78rpm shellacs from the 1930s, published in his book entitled Malta's Lost Voices.

Alamango seeks his musical muses in Malta, Turkey and Egypt.