2010/04/17

2010 Washington Kazakhstan Festival featuring Ulytau

Date: April 17, 2010 (Saturday)
Time: 6:00 P.M.
Place: Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, 730 21 ST NW, Washington DC
Tickets: free to the public via email reservation (nanderson AT policyimpacdt.com)

Ulytau ("The Great Mountain") is a Kazakh Folk-Rock Band perform ethno music (and also popular classic) in hard and pop-rock styles. They are as equally keen or distinguished cover-versions of classical themes of Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart, as on their own - rather condensed on sounding-dramatically associated opuses. Musicians talently inlay traditionally light sounding of a violin and originally-concentrated "dombra" (the kazakh national instrument) into a rigid aesthetics of heavy rock, blues and ... "relaxing-new-age". For example, eight and last composition of an album "Jumyr-Kylysh" distinctly cast meditative theme of brasilian Avankan.

Video:

"Spirit of steppe" final rehearsal
Duration 03 minutes 55 seconds



Press:
Embassy of Kazakhstan
Ulytau.kz
Facebook
Cultural Tourism DC
Kazakhstan Guide
BusinessWire

Sponsors: Embassy of Kazakhstan, Smithsonian Institution

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