On the 6th of August, representing U.S.A. and afro-american culture, gospel music star Cheryl Porter, will come to Magliano. Born in Chicago, homeland of Gospel, Cheryl is today one of the most promising voices of the new generation, depicted by critics as "a wise mix of elements from Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and Mahalia Jackson". Cheryl will be special guest of the Italian choir Sisters & Brothers Gospel Choir Ensemble, a group of 20 singers accompained by piano, bass and drums.

On the 9th this tour of the world within the Vox Mundi Festival will also touch the South of Africa, Zimbabwe. Insingizi will present the classic african vocal style mbube, the singing of the Zulu workers recruited in the country and forced to work as miners far from home. Insingizi will also perform the "gumboot dance" invented by South African miners as a secret language to communicate among them despite the whites' prohibition. This one is usually perfomed beating rhythmically their hands on their boots.

On the 16th from Macedonia the King Naat Veliov's Original Kocani Orkestar. A  brilliant Balkan gipsy brass band that offers an original interpretation of traditional gipsy music, but also introduces modern elements, performing even some gipsy arrangements of famous songs by Bob Dylan and Cheb Khaled.

The festival will end on the 19th with Portuguese music represented by Bévinda, "the Fado's fairy" (fada de fado), a strong and little conventional singer, on the heigh of a career that counts more than 10 albums in which she faced firstly Amalia Rodrigues's classic repertoire and then enriched her fado singing with African, Arabic, Indian and Mediterranean influences.

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