Chai For All X Oona La Luna X Jacqueline Jamal at Cotham Club

A stunning celebration of global music and dance.

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A wonderful journey through passionate, powerful Eastern European, Middle Eastern, and Arabic music and dance.

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Impelled from the first by an irresistible energy, richly varied masterpieces of gloriously global song and dance are woven together into a vibrant night of music, mood, and motion.

[Chai For All]
'Highly skilled - a class act.'
Venue Magazine

Chai For All - 'Chai' is the Hebrew word for 'life' - is one of the finest and most entertaining Bristol-based exponents of great global music, its adventurous musicians ricocheting effortlessly between genres, styles, and languages. Performing in Yiddish, English, Ladino, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, and Romani, Marianna Moralis' impassioned vocals drive a wildly eclectic and emotive selection of exquisite songs from Middle Eastern, Jewish, and Arabic diaspora communities. David Mowat (trumpet), Knud Stüwe (guitar/oud), and Simon Leach (cajón/darbuka/oud) propel the joyous and rousing arrangements with their impressive playing and enormous sense of fun....

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A stunning celebration of global music and dance.

-

A wonderful journey through passionate, powerful Eastern European, Middle Eastern, and Arabic music and dance.

-

Impelled from the first by an irresistible energy, richly varied masterpieces of gloriously global song and dance are woven together into a vibrant night of music, mood, and motion.

[Chai For All]
'Highly skilled - a class act.'
Venue Magazine

Chai For All - 'Chai' is the Hebrew word for 'life' - is one of the finest and most entertaining Bristol-based exponents of great global music, its adventurous musicians ricocheting effortlessly between genres, styles, and languages. Performing in Yiddish, English, Ladino, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, and Romani, Marianna Moralis' impassioned vocals drive a wildly eclectic and emotive selection of exquisite songs from Middle Eastern, Jewish, and Arabic diaspora communities. David Mowat (trumpet), Knud Stüwe (guitar/oud), and Simon Leach (cajón/darbuka/oud) propel the joyous and rousing arrangements with their impressive playing and enormous sense of fun.

Set against stirring and subtle traditional instrumental backing, impeccable dancers Oona La Luna and Jacqueline Jamal revel in the power, grace, and precision of their sinuous Middle Eastern/Arabic dance, reaching to the heart of raqs sharqi belly dance. Fine exponents of the art, they weave a hypnotic magic, creating beautiful lines and shapes with their torsos, hips, hands, necks, arms, and midriffs.

With fantastic music and brilliant dance, topped with natural showmanship, the show is an evening guaranteed to raise the spirits.

[Chai For All]
'Energetic and exciting... emotive, soulful, and unlike anything you'll ever see.'
Bristol 24/7

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