Venue: Library, Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh.
Time: 9.30am for 10am-4pm. Lunch: 1pm-2pm.
Event Description: Playing the Uzbek Dutar (plucked lute) and Doira (frame drum), Razia Sultanova will give a rendition of Uzbek female music. Women’s musical input is clearly important in preserving traditional Central Asian music and culture, but this only becomes apparent on a closer view. Razia’s choice of the feminine repertoire, which is performed exclusively indoors (in ‘Ichkari’), far from the eyes and ears of strangers, enables her to demonstrate the true richness of feminine art and culture from her part of the Muslim world. The different stages of women’s life and role in Uzbek society are mirrored in the richness of folk music in its earthy and divine dimensions. Multiple genres from lullaby to songs of love and marriage, ritual music, Sufi Zikr (remembrance of God), and mourning rituals constitute the basis of Uzbek music. Participants can bring Dutar (long necked plucked lute) or Doira (frame drum).
Cost: £20/£15 (Concessions). For a Registration Form:
Contact: Neill Walker, njwalk5300@hotmail.co.uk, 0131 331 4469.