In many cultures, it’s common during festive dinners for one or more guests to stand, raise a glass and speak a toast. In the central European country of Georgia, however, the tradition is thrillingly ...
161 161 people viewed this event. Performance based around the unique and ancient vocal and music style called Polyphony, originating from Georgia. 6 pm. Pwyc ...
Lucy Duran continues her musical journey through Georgia. She travels to the highest and remotest part of Europe, Svaneti, to make rare location recordings of its wild songs. Show more Lucy Duran ...
Popular singing has a highly valued place in Georgian culture. Polyphonic singing, in the Georgian language, is a secular tradition in a country whose language and culture have often been oppressed by ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Vivien Schweitzer As wild and unfamiliar yodeling unfolded over startling harmonies and complex rhythmic patterns in Alice Tully Hall ...
Young Georgians are reviving a lost tradition of hymns and folk music as they strive to reestablish their country's cultural identity and historical tradition as something distinct from Russian or ...
Mastering the complexities of Georgian polyphony is some task but it is one children from Thornlie Primary School in Wishaw have taken up with gusto. When they were first told about the war in Georgia ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By James R. Oestreich When the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center was being revamped a decade or so ago, some thought that it ...
North African blues, Chilean pop, Scottish folk-rock, Georgian polyphony, Haitian Vodou music and more will all be emanating from the Music Haven stage in Schenectady’s Central Park this summer, as ...