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EASTERN EUROPEAN / MIDDLE EASTERN SOUNDS

Yalla! An infectiously entertaining mish-mosh of powerful songs and whirling dance tunes.

Performing in Yiddish, English, Ladino, Hebrew, Turkish, Arabic and Romani, Marianna Moralis’ impassioned vocals drive a wildly eclectic and emotive selection of exquisite songs from Eastern European and Middle Eastern diaspora communities. David Mowat (trumpet), Knud Stüwe (guitar, oud), and Simon Leach (cajón, darbuka, oud) propel the joyous and rousing arrangements with their impressive playing and enormous sense of fun.

With fantastic music and brilliant audience rapport, topped with natural showwomanship, this is an evening guaranteed to raise the spirits. Sababa!


MORALIS & STÜWE

Formidable world/folk voice and guitar/oud duo Moralis & Stüwe showcase a wildly eclectic and eloquently emotive selection of stripped back songs from Eastern European and Middle Eastern diasporas.

Performing in Yiddish, English, Ladino, Hebrew, Turkish, Arabic and Romani, Marianna Moralis’ impassioned vocals are beautifully married to Knud Stüwe’s intricate guitar and oud playing.

Exciting and vibrant and diverse, the set traverses everything from gorgeous love songs, to centuries-old traditionals, to deeply affecting songs of longing, and joyous good-time swing, the intimacy of one string instrument and one voice adding to the emotional intensity.
 

BELLYDANCE/CHAI FOR ALL

Impelled from the first by an irresistible energy, richly varied masterpieces of gloriously global song and dance are woven together into a vibrant night of music, mood and motion.
 
Set against stirring and subtle traditional instrumental backing, impeccable dancers revel in the power, grace and precision of their sinuous Middle Eastern/Arabic dance, reaching to the heart of raqs sharqi belly-dance. Fine exponents of the art, they weave a hypnotic magic, creating beautiful lines and shapes with their torsos, hips, hands, neck, arms, and midriffs.
 
Chai For All - ‘Chai’ is the Hebrew word for ‘life’ - is one of the finest and most entertaining Bristol-based exponents of great global music, its adventurous musicians ricocheting effortlessly between genres, styles, and languages. Performing in Yiddish, English, Ladino, Hebrew, Turkish, Arabic and Romani, Marianna Moralis’ impassioned vocals drive a wildly eclectic and emotive selection of exquisite songs from Eastern European and Middle Eastern diaspora communities. David Mowat (trumpet), Knud Stüwe (guitar, oud), and Simon Leach (cajón, darbuka, oud) propel the joyous and rousing arrangements with their impressive playing and enormous sense of fun.
 
With fantastic music and brilliant dance, topped with natural showwomanship, this is an evening guaranteed to raise the spirits.

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