Aga Khan Music Initiative
in Central Asia
2006
European Tour*
The
inaugural 2006 European tour presents masters of the region’s
traditional music as well as performers who are revitalising
the art form through new approaches to performance style,
repertory, and technique. The concert also celebrates the
European launch of the first three volumes of a ten-part
Smithsonian Folkways CD and DVD anthology of Central Asian
music.
 Tengir-Too
May
20 – Italy – Bologna
28 – UK – Chatham, Fuse Festival
June
1 – UK - Milton Keynes, The Stables
2 – UK - South Hill Park, Bracknell
3 – UK – Roots, Around the Wolrd
4 – UK – Reading, South Street
7 – UK – Aldershot, West End Centre
8 – UK – Canterbury, Gulbenkian
9 – UK – Cardigan - Theater Mwldan
10 – UK – Cardiff – National Museum
11 – UK – Swansea – Taliesin Arts Centre
July
7/8 – MALAYSIA – Kuching – Sarawak - Bornéo
Rainforest festival
12/13 – FINLAND – Kaustinen – Kaustinen
Folk Music festival
September
03 – FRANCE – Villarceaux – Festival d’Ile
de France
October
04 – AUSTRIA – Wien – Musikalische Jugend
Osterreichs
05 – AUSTRIA – Wien - Musikalische Jugend Osterreichs
08 – CZECH REPUBLIC – Praha – Film on
Music Festival
10 – FRANCE – Montpellier – Rencontres
Internationales de Guitare
14 – BELGIUM – Bruxelles – Espace Senghores
(Belgium tour with "Jeunesses musicales de Belgique"
Central Asian Ensembles
at the Domaine de Villarceaux -
Festival d’Ile de France, France
September
Sunday,
September 3rd – 2.00pm to 6.00pm
Etape
à Samarcande: Several groups from Central
Asia will offer a spectrum of music and traditions from
Central Asia. Groups will include: Tengir-Too (music from
Kyrgyzstan), Mohi-Sitora (toy from Boukhara), Sahiba Davlatshaeva
and Aqnazar Alovatov (traditions of Badkhashan), and musicians
from AKMICA's school for bards in Kazakhstan.
For
more information regarding the 2006 USA tour, please see
the press release.
Exclusive
artist management and tour co-production:
Sabine
Chatel
Zamzama Productions
156, bd Magenta
75010 Paris
France
Tel.: + 33 1 44 63 00 34
Fax: + 33 1 42 46 22 94
Email: info@zamzama.net
Website: www.zamzama.net
For
further information please contact:
For
Press:
Sam
Pickens
Information Officer
Aga Khan Development Network
P.O. Box 2049
1211 Geneva 2
Switzerland
Tel: (+41 22) 909 7277
Fax: (+41 22) 909 7292
Mobile: (+41 78) 661 8714
Email: info@akdn.org
Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia (AKMICA):
Fairouz
R. Nishanova
Director, AKMICA
Aga Khan Trust for Culture
Aga Khan Development Network
P.O. Box 2049
1211 Geneva 2
Switzerland
Email: akmica@akdn.org
Theodore Levin
Senior Project Consultant, AKMICA
Aga Khan Trust for Culture
Aga Khan Development Network
P.O. Box 2049
1211 Geneva 2
Switzerland
Email: akmica@akdn.org
*
Tengir-Too will also perform in Malaysia in July.
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