WorldWideMusic goes Romnja Jazz
Friday 06.09.2019 9:30pm | Club
Admission: pre sale 10 € plus fee / box office 15 €, 10 € (reduced), 5 € (Berlin Pass)
Organizer: Werkstatt der Kulturen/ Roma Trial
Production
Riah Knight
Riah May Knight was born in 1996 in Sussex, England. Being of British and Romnja descent she grew up in the middle of the Roma civil rights movement, which politicised her and gave her a platform for her work.
Riah plays Jazz inspired, Downtempo and Original Soul. She has been writing and performing music as a singer and songwriter for the past 12 years, playing venues such as the Notre Dame, the British House of Parliament, Brighton Dome and the London Roundhouse.
Currently, she can be seen at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, where she works as a musician and an actress, and where her compositions are performed. She starred in the plays “Roma Armee” (engl. 'Roma army', the opening show of the 2017 theatre season) and “Yes but No” (opening show of the 2018 theatre season), which earned her enthusiastic reviews and the moniker “blonde Amy Winehouse”.
In April 2018 she was invited do develop a performance piece and compose the music for the first Roma biennale “COME OUT NOW! “, organised by RomaTrial e.V. in conjunction with the Maxim Gorki Theater and Studio Я. As an alumna of the prestigious London Roundhouse, Riah continues to perform as a solo musician and is working on her first release in-between touring and appearing on stage.
J. Lamotta Duo
Berlin-based artist, J.Lamotta went through blues, jazz, hip-hop, soul, self-produced beat making to her latest RnB feel. Lamotta was born in Tel Aviv to a family of Moroccan descent, a thing that affects her aesthetic and stylistic choices in a significant yet subtle fashion. She blends Lauryn Hill, J Dilla, Marvin Gaye, Aaliyah and Billie Holiday into her music whilst maintaining a unique voice in today’s music. The intimate and personal expression has always been the main elements in Lamotta’s songs.
Riah May Knight wurde 1996 in Sussex, England, geboren. Mit ihrem Hintergrund als Britin und Romnja wuchs sie inmitten der Roma-Bürgerrechtsbewegung auf, durch die sie politisiert wurde und eine Plattform für ihre Arbeit erhielt.
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It is not only women in general who are clearly underrepresented in Jazz music, but especially women who identify as "People of Colour" find it particularly hard to assert themselves in the industry because of ongoing discrimination.
This is the reason why RomaTrial e.V. initiated the one-year RomnjaJazz programme: The focus is on jazz musicians and composers from Berlin with a Sinti or Roma background.
The WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN (WdK), being simultaneously a venue for events and a producer, set itself the task of looking at current (culture and migration) political developments. The WdK addresses these issues by using various forms of art, culture and action, and will stage concerts by three artists in September 2019.
With the series WorldWideMusic goes RomnjaJazz the venue not only maintains its consistent focus on transculturality and diversity in order to reflect Berlin's variety of migrant and minority forms of culture, art and action. The WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN thereby also continues this year’s focus on Balance for Better. An event that is already creating more visibility for female artists on the music scene of Berlin thanks to the concert series She´s Got Jazz and WorldWideMomenMusic. The venue is once again positioning itself as one of the few cultural institutions in Germany, which not only puts World Jazz on stage, but also defines the face of tomorrow's genre, not least through its own WorldJazzEnsemble. Little Big Band.
A project by Roma Trial e.V., supported by the Senate Administration for Culture and Europe.
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