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GM Live presents the World Sounds Festival at everyone's favourite St Catherine's Church. It is the ideal place in Vilnius for cosy and sensitive world music concerts.
The festival invites you to immerse yourself in the magical world of music, allowing you to discover different and rich musical cultures. Talented bands from Turkey, USA/Pakistan, the Middle East, Mongolia and Armenia will create a colourful mosaic of music. Sometimes it is roaring like a waterfall and sometimes it is as gentle as the fluttering wings of a butterfly. Then you understand why many critics and listeners say her voice is like a small orchestral symphony." - These are the words of a Swiss critic who heard URNA for the first time.
Born into a family of nomadic herders on the Ordos Steppe in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Republic of China, Urna Chahar-Tugchi studied yangqin (Chinese dulcimer) at the Shanghai Conservatoire between 1989 and 1993. Since then, she has been touring the world and delighting audiences with her spectacular voice, rising four octaves with elegance and ease.
Urna conveys the spirit of her native land through music. While her music is rooted in the traditions of her native country, her recent works emphasize loose, brushstroke improvisations inspired by years of encounters with other cultures and musicians. URNA will perform at St Catherine's Church with the legendary Polish world music ensemble Kroke, with whom she released the album Ser (Wake) in 2018.
The uniquely styled ensemble Kroke (Krakow in Yiddish), originally most closely associated with klezmer music, draws inspiration from ethnic music from around the world. One evening, she took her husband to a concert. The director quickly recognised Kroke's talent and invited the band to Jerusalem to perform at the Survivors Reunion Ceremony for Schindler's List survivors. Spielberg sent a tape of KROKE to Peter Gabriel, who invited the band to the UK in 1997 to participate in the WOMAD Festival. This was just the start of a great adventure: 20 albums, a soundtrack for a David Lynch film, a nomination for the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards, a collaboration with violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy and many more achievements mark nearly three decades of KROKE's creative journey. Long-lasting artistic impressions are guaranteed!
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