14
Apr
Ensemble Adilei & The Chamgeliani Sisters
- 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Oh My Ribs!
Georgian Cultural and Educational Center of Southern California is hosting a concert by the ensemble Adilei and the Chamgeliani sisters.
Georgian Cultural and Educational Center of Southern California is excited to host the Georgian folk music ensemble Adilei, a group of young performers with incredible vocal prowess and technical skills. The concert will also feature a performance by the Chamgeliani sisters.This is a second U.S. tour for Adilei in the past two years. The group has toured in Italy, Germany, and Eastern U.S., all with great success. They have conducted workshops, lectures, and seminars at Dartmouth College, Columbia University, New England Conservatory, Yale, Brandeis, University of New Orleans, and Wesleyan.The concert will take place on April 14, 2019. The doors will open at 6 p.m. The seating is first come first served. Please save the date and join us in celebrating the Georgian folk music along with the Georgian wine tasting.Ensemble Adilei performs traditional Georgian polyphonic songs and chants. After informally singing together for several years, the members officially formed the ensemble in 2012.Adilei’s main passion lies in the songs from the province of Guria in Western Georgia (though other regions are also represented in their repertoire). Gurian music is sometimes compared to jazz, because of the emphasis on improvisation, and non-parallel movement in all the voice parts. Gurian song is also characterized by k’rimanch’uli , a yodeling technique often present in the upper voice.For the members of Adilei singing is the primary mode of communication with the world: it is more of a lifestyle than a performance practice and is not just relegated to official concerts. They sing every time they gather, wherever that may be.The ensemble has toured in a number of European countries, and participated in several notable folk music festivals, including the International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony in Tbilisi, the Mare e Miniere festival in Sardinia, and the Zlatne Uste Golden Festival in New York. During their first US tour, the group conducted workshops, lectures, seminars, and concerts at Dartmouth, Columbia, New England Conservatory, Yale, and other universities on the East Coast, as well as a number of more informal and intimate venues.This is Adilei’s second US tour, and they are delighted to share their music with you!Sisters Ana and Madona Chamgeliani come from a long lineage of singers from the mountainous province of Svaneti, where they grew up. These women are not only great singers, but also possess deep knowledge of the contexts and traditions that surround the songs they perform. Ana, who is also a member of ensemble Sathanao, is a virtuoso on the ch’uniri (a 3-string bowed viol, traditionally played in Svaneti and a few other surrounding provinces), and Madona is an ethnomusicologist and scholar of Svan folklore. The sisters and have toured extensively throughout Europe, and frequently collaborate and exchange musical repertoire with Adilei, both at home and abroad.