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ORPHEUS XXI

Music · Friday, January 15 · 20:30 · Cenon

1 rue Aristide Briand, Cenon

Created in 2016, the Orpheus XXI project brings together about twenty professional musicians who are refugees and immigrants. They come from Syria, Kurdistan, Bangladesh, Sudan, Turkey, Morocco, Afghanistan or Armenia. Each brings a language, a repertoire, a memory. Oud, saz, ney, duduk, qanun, percussion and voice take you from the Levant to the Maghreb, from Persia to the Mediterranean. On stage, traditions do not stay neatly side by side: they meet, mingle and respond in a constant dialogue The through line remains, life, dignity. In these forma…