A night featuring: Sholeh Wople; Belza Lowah, Ingrid James and trio - Louise Denson, Andrew Shaw & Sacha Kloostra!
Guest tar player Dr Ali Bahreine - mixing traditional Iranian music with contemporary performance poetry. Something not to be missed!
Magda's, Friday 9th, 7.30pm
Bookings essential: links below.
Stories about people, places and life - through poetry and music from some highly acclaimed artists, including award-winning Persian poet and literary translator, Sholeh Wolpe (Iranian / American).
With acclaimed Indigenous Australian poet, actor and singer, Belza Lowah (North Queensland/Brisbane-based) together with award-winning Queensland jazz singer Ingrid James (just back from her European tour) and her trio.
Sholeh Wolpe's has thrilled audeinces around the world and her bio is enormous:
“A gifted Iranian-American poet beautifully explores love and the loss of love, beauty and war and the ghosts of the past.”
She will present Sufi mystic poetry and some of her latest works, accompanied by traditional Persian instruments . Her translation of Sufi mystic poet Attar's masterpiece The conference of the Birds, was award the prestigious PEN/Heim grant and lauded as an "artful and exquisite modern translation".
Belza Lowah will present stories through poetry of life growing up in North Queensland - experiences of love, family, gaining of wisdom, relationships, childhood memories, nature and symbols - Stories about people and places and the lifelong bonds and experiences that bind their lives.
Ingrid James is well known in jazz circles, nationally and internationally, an award-winning vocalist and educator with performances on national television, with the Queensland Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras - and at intimate venues - such as Magda's!
John Hardaker from Words and Music described Ingrid's lyrics from her latest collaborative album as "direct, and with just the right mix of experience, urbanity and poetry". Mark Channon, USA Jazz Radio Presenter described Ingrid's voice saying "her disciplined delivery is mouthwatering, hitting each word with pristine clarity while accenting each though with a silk, sultry resonance..."
Ingrid and Belza will sing together and Ingrid will add her own inimitable and unforgettable touch to the presentation.
This is a once-only event and a wonderful opportunity to experience something very unique in Brisbane. We would love to share the night with you!
Adults: $25; Conc: $22; Full time students: $20; Children under 12: Free.
Bookings essential: https://www.trybooking.com/NUHH and https://www.trybooking.com/242197.
Sholeh: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTw75Zam-SY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb88OlUHQBE
Ingrid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_iWFKm_23M