Women on Stage!

WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN presents World Wide Women Music

We are in the best of company - from Angola to Cambodia, Nepal to the Ukraine, March 8th is International Women’s Day, and is now also celebrated in Berlin! As part of its concert series WorldWideMusic, the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN pays homage to “the stronger sex” with a women’s special. Berlin musicians from diverse origins and different genres DJ, play their instruments, raise their voices to celebrate themselves and all women. The curators and musicians Evi Filippou, Jarita Freydank, Mayelis Guyat and Sasha Lurje have chosen their female band for you. We redress the ‘balance’ - come to celebrate Women’s Day with us… and every Friday from March to June 2019 at 9pm in the club at the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN.

 

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ELÉONORE FOURNIAU & PETRA NACHTMANOVA

Songs from Anatolia – Anadolu’dan ezgiler

 

Eleonore and Petra play together in the all female formation TELLI TURNALAR, which has played at internationally renowned World Music Festivals in Morocco, India, France and Belgium. On this occasion they will play a carefully picked repertoire of Anatolian Folk Songs accompanied by the Baglama and the Hurdy-Gurdy.

With her rich voice and poignant interpretation, Eleonore Fourniau sings the people of Anatolia. Flying to Turkey in 2010 with a single ticket and a backpack; she fell in love with the cultural diversity of this region and dedicated more than 6 years to studying turkish and kurdish musics as well as their languages. Internationally acclaimed for the quality of her interpretation of kurdish music, she also sings in other Anatolian languages (turkish, laz, armenian etc.) She accompanies herself on the three-stringed lute, the saz, sacred instrument for the Alevi, and the hurdy-gurdy, occidental instrument which here echoes the mountains of Anatolia or the plains of Mesopotamia.

 

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Petra Nachtmanova was born in Vienna to a Polish mother and a Czech father. Since her early childhood she has been exposed to different cultures and styles of music, always searching for the connecting elements between them. In Berlin she discovered the Baglama (the Anatolian lute).

 

Petra Nachtmanova's repertoire focuses on Eastern Anatolian Folk Songs and Aşık music with its socio-critical expression, raising the voice of the people. Since 2014 she has been mostly performing for the Anatolian communities in Germany, France, Belgium and Austria, and played concerts in Turkey, Azerbaijan and beyond. As a researcher and protagonist she has worked with director Stephan Talneau on the ARTE Documentary film project SAZ. Together with the multi-instrumentalist Ceyhun Kaya she organises the monthly Beynel Milel Berlin Nights at Villa Neukölln.