Concerts today in Prague will begin the festival of Romani culture Khamoro
Visitors can also play a theatrical performance and a parade of artists from the center of Prague is also planned. The festival is organized by Slovo 21 and SP Saga. Khamoro in Romani means sunshine.
The domestic group Imperio will present the festival of rhythms of čardáš, funk, pop and Latin American music from 19:30. In addition to his own compositions, he will play Romani folk songs. The band Connection is also from the Czech Republic, its members represent a mix of jazz, funk, soul and R&B.
In the coming days, Romani music combined with Yiddish music performed by the Israeli Mediterranean Gypsy Swing Experience and the gypsy jazz genre will also be represented by the German Vano Bamberger & Band. Both concerts will be at the Jazz Dock in Smíchov. For example, the dulcimer band Manuša, led by singer Júlia Kozáková, and the brass band The Elvis Ajdinovic Orkestar, with which Serbian singer Jelena Markovičová will sing, will play in La Fabrice in Holešovice. Musician Bako Jovanovič will present his art of playing a four-string tambourine in Prague.
The music program of the festival will culminate on June 4 with a gala concert at the Archa Theater, where the Roma group Le Čhavendar from Rokycany and Spanish dancers from the Ballet Lucia Guarnido Studio will perform. There will also be a performance of the Romans Theater, the only professional Roman theater ensemble in Ukraine, some of whose members fled to Poland before the war. Six members of the ensemble, which first performed here in 2005, will perform in Prague.
The festival will also include two theater premieres. People will see the production Djelem, djelem, performed by an amateur ensemble from Rokycany and directed by Kateřina Volánková, at the D21 Theater in Vinohrady on Monday. The performance summarizes the experiences of several Rokycany women from migrating to the UK. For the first time, the monodrama Dajori by the Romani actress and singer Pavlína Matiová will also be presented. It maps the stories of Romani women against the background of historical milestones of the 20th century.
A musical procession performed by two stones by Romani artists is then created on June 3. It starts at noon on Wenceslas Square.
According to the organizers of the largest festival of professional Roma musicians in the world, Khamoro is. Prague has hosted it since 1999. In recent years, the event has been visited by approximately 10,000 people a year.