Meret – Forbidden Voices FestivalConcert
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This event is in the past.
With Iranian pop from Marjan Farsad & band, Iranian jazz from Golnar Shahyar & band, and Turkish jazz from Sanem Kalfa.
This event is in the past.
With Iranian pop from Marjan Farsad & band, Iranian jazz from Golnar Shahyar & band, and Turkish jazz from Sanem Kalfa.
"Dear friends, after long deliberations and consultations, we have decided with a heavy heart to postpone the Meret event because of the situation in Iran and Afghanistan. Events that initially only proved the timeliness of such a festival unfortunately precipitated. The associations supporting us suddenly had other priorities of existential issues,and are providing emergency aid, so have no more capacity for Meret."
Marjan Farsad was born in Tehran, Iran in 1983 and is a New York-based animator, illustrator, singer and songwriter. Her debut album “Blue Flowers” was released in 2014, and her second album, “White Tree” in 2020. About the song “Mahtab” (Moonlight), released in 2021, she writes: “It is about two of my young and talented friends, Keyomars Marzban and Niloufar Bayani, who were imprisoned in Iran for a number of years. Keyomars was recently released, but Niloufar is still in prison. I can’t imagine what they must have gone through in captivity, isolation and torture. Their arrests also destroyed the lives of their loved ones. The extent of this injustice is unbearable and contradicts everything I know about humanity. My song is about the stars that are lost every night and speaks of the feeling evoked by recent events in Iran.”
Born and raised in Tehran during the First Gulf War, singer, composer and poet Golnar Shahyar specialises in combining her musical roots with jazz and improvised music. A relative latecomer to music, she quickly managed to gain a foothold on the international concert and festival circuit. While getting her concert career off the ground, she studied voice and guitar at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Committed to exploring new avenues in music and with a passion for social justice, she regularly collaborates with internationally acclaimed musicians in an extraordinary prism of languages and styles. Both with groups like Choub, Gabbeh, and the Golnar & Mahan Trio, and as a solo artist under the name GolNar, she has been nominated for numerous awards and for the music promotion programme “The New Austrian Sound of Music (NASOM)”.
Sanem Kalfa comes from Trabzon in north-eastern Turkey, which lies on the Black Sea coast. Having started out as a cellist, she studied vocals in the Netherlands and won the prestigious Shure Montreux Jazz Vocal Competition in 2014. Her distinctive style combines jazz, improvisation and world music into a powerful, emotional blend.
With the kind support of the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich
