Icarus Festival for Dialogue between Cultures 2008 IKARIA ISLAND, GREECE Program Ship of Fools "Jason-The magic quest" - a play? a happening? June 23/24/25 Evdilos & 27/28 Agios Kirikos This iron ship was built riveted in 1916 as any typical dutch sailing herring-net vessel of that era. The cultural foundation Azart bought the ship in 1989, called her Azart and transformed her in a Ship of Fools, home and transport of an artists’ collective and theatre company. The ship, provides for the crew a home, kitchen, theatre/TV-studio and transport alike. All equipment and facilities are on board. Azart promotes the local cultural climate by looking for a cross-cultural collaboration with artists collectives and social activists. The crew, itself coming from three continents, invites actors or musicians, directors, scriptwriters, costume or film makers. Through workshops a joint production is created and subsequently shown in neighboring cities and/or countries. Since 2007 the ship sails the Greek waters. As sailors, the Ship of Fools, inspired by Greek Mythology, has chosen "Jason of the Argonauts" for their 2008 performances. ** info from azart.org Christos Tsiamoulis (ud - voice) & Halil Karaduman (quanun) Common traditions - Greek and Turkish Songs from Asia Minor and Constantinople July 2 Raches & July 3 Evdilos Christos Tsiamoulis is wandering from the beginning of his life in the paths of Hellenic Traditional Music. He discovers old ancient motives, and the diachronic elements, he is studing them, he maintains them with respect and devotion, while he gives all his efforts in order to maintain them alive. Halil Karaduman is a world class master of the quanun and particularly admired in Greece. Following his worldwide concerts with Zülfü Livaneli he worked with various orchestras and artists such as Mikis Teodarakis, Maria Faranduri, Geora Faidman, Al di Meola, Habib Chan, Lizbeth List etc. He has recorded 3CDs in Turkey, 1 in USA and 2 in Greece. With Christos Tsiamoulis they have recorded their first album Christos Tsiamulis meets Chalil Karantouman, live in 2001. The concerts will be also featuring Socratis Sinopoulos (Lyra), Vasilis Ketetzoglou (guitar) and Manousos Klapakis (percussion). DROM- Nicoleta Anastasiou (voice) w. Jamie Smith (violin) Gypsy Music from all around Europe featuring Greek Lyrics by July 6 Evdilos & July 8 Raches "DROM, literally a road from the Greek Dromos, signifies a journey in the universal Romani or gypsy culture. The ancient gypsies were fearless explorers, true to their romantic spirit, people of the earth and very creative. From their origins in India, they spread through the Middle East, North Africa and Europe." * DROM present a mixture of musical storytelling and driving rhythmic built-ups over old Gypsy melodies. Stage presence and fine musicianship is the strong point of this colourful group. The band consists of Nicoleta Anastasiou (voice), Jaime Smith (violin), Vasilis Ziakas (accordeon), Costas Vavitsas (guitars), Yiorgos Fasolis (percussion) * quote from "dromnyc.com" Novitango Quinteto with dancers Fabien Ballejos & Gina Nikolitsa 20th century tango voyage, from the classics to the contemporaries July 14 Raches & July 16 Agios Kirikos NOVITANGO QUINTET members are Sergiu NASTASA (violin), Yiannis Antonopoulos (piano), Anastasia Georgaki (accordeon), George Theodorakakos (double bass) and Stavros Katirtzoglou (guitar). They all have classical music background and European careers. The group presents Nuevo tango through the repertoire of Αstor Piazzolla, Rodolfo Mederos, Leonardo Sanchez, Juan Jose Mosalini etc. Their lead singer Yiula Michael has been singing classical & jazz in Paris and Athens and lately she collaborates with Novitango in recordings & performances.Fabien Ballejos is the choreographer of the performance. Djamel Ben Yelles & Djam&Fam w. Klaudia Delmer French-Algerian - "U and Us" a fusion project July 21 Evdilos & July 22 Agios Kirikos Extraordinary violinist, recording artist, composer and producer, Djamel Ben Yelles carries the great arab violin tradition and he is a master of Rai music. Djamel Ben Yelles was born in France and returned at a very early age to his parent's native country, Algeria. Raised in Tlemcen, he lived many years in Oran, the cradle of Ra•ï Music. Educated in classical violin, he moved to France and began a career as a much sought after violinist, multiplying collaborations with top Ra•ï musicians like Khaled, Cheb Mami, and Cheb Kader. He co-produced the first CD in the history of Raï• with Cheb Mami. In 1996 He made a solo album, the hauntingly beautiful 1002 Nights (Quango) fusing hypnotic rhythms with a romantic electric violin sound. Composed and interpreted by the artist, 1002 Nights is a New Age Music classic. In 1997, He brought out Djam and Fam, with his long time collaborator Florent Prabel. Multi-ethnic Raï•, hip-hop and funk, the album mixes electric violin with a cast of exceptional international vocalists from Algeria, Sweden, Morocco, and England. A visionary album, forecasting the explosion of multi-cultural music projects which came at the turn of the millennium. After the success of Djam and Fam, Djamel continued to explore new directions with, among others, Jean Paul Gaultier, Real World- Peter Gabriel, Dave Stewart, Milla Jovovich, Yannick Noah, Jack Iglein, Florent Pagny, and Enrico Macias Calogero. Perhaps one of his best known and long lasting collaborations was with Jane Birkin, which resulted in a worldwide tour and the recording of Arabesque (Capitol, 2002). Two of the most emotional concerts were held in Israel and Palestine. This innovative Arabic reworking of the celebrated French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg was highly praised by American critics during the North American tour. Djamel's violin mastery and arrangements helped a very French repertory to greet the wider world. Following the tour of Arabesque, Djamel was reunited with Florent Prabel, (author, composer, producer for Squeege, Jimmy Cliff, remix Texas, Urban Species, Lionel Richie) forming U and US Music, producing three titles for Jonathan Demme's film: Dark Road ( featuring Zarouki Raiman from Oran and Shiz from Philadelphia,) Urban Battle and Garden of Shadows. Klaudia Delmer will appear as a guest in a few songs by Djamel and her own. A few words about the Festival The festival takes place every summer on the Greek island of Ikaria in the North East Aegean Sea. The purpose of the Festival is to host performances by artists or groups whose music is a product of multicultural participation or inspiration. 2008 is the third year of it's activity. All concerts will be held within the forementioned townships. Starting time 9:45 pm Bus service will be available between cities the dates of the concerts General admission is € 10. Festival site: http://icarus-festival.ikaria.gr Icarus Festival for Dialogue between Cultures is organized by the 3 Municipalities of Ikaria: Agios Kirikos, Evdilos and Raches. Island info: http://www.ikaria.gr/index.php?mylang=english The Festival is produced by Massive Productions Perrikou 3, Athens 11524, Greece Tel 30 210 6995200 cel 30 697 2235932 alt. 30 697 7199034 email: akron@hol.gr fampas@yahoo.com Artistic direction: Klaudia Delmer kdelmer@yahoo.com VIDEO: ICARUS 2008 TV PROMO - IKARIA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94jFE1fXvVM