Atlantic Concert: MAYRA ANDRADE | DOBET GNAHORÉ

& ENSEMBLE ATLANTIQUE

Program change: for health reasons, Oumou Sangaré is unfortunately unable to perform at the Atlantic Concert on 4.8.
at the Freilichtbühne and has to cancel all performances in August.
We wish her a speedy recovery!
We are delighted that we have managed to find another wonderful artist from West Africa for the evening with Mayra Andrade.
The multiple award-winning singer and Grammy winner Dobet Gnahoré from the Ivory Coast!

  At the Atlantic Concert on the open-air stage, the WATER & SOUND Festival presents a double concert with two greats of contemporary global music: the Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade and Dobet Gnahoré from the Ivory Coast.

When it comes to Cape Verdean music of the 21st century, Mayra Andrade is considered the voice of the future. Their multi-layered music is a beguiling mixture of African rhythms, Brazilian bossa nova, Portuguese fado, jazz and global pop. Their songs are sung in Cape Verdean Creole, English and Portuguese. Cape Verde’s music is characterized by its location in the Atlantic and its historical connections to Portugal, Brazil and Africa. Mayra Andrade skillfully and sensitively combines these traditional influences with numerous contemporary styles of global pop and is at the same time deeply rooted in the rich soil of African tradition: between percussive urge to move and fiery enthusiasm for the cultural legacy, Mayra Andrade created her personal cosmopolitan reinterpretation of classical Morna music. As part of Water & Sound, Mayra Andrade’s current duo program “reEncanto” with guitarist Djodje Almeida meets the Ensemble Atlantique with musicians from the southern German jazz scene and the Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Tom Jahn in an exciting musical encounter of traditional Cape Verdean music, soul and jazz.

With Mayra Andrade (vocals, percussion), Djodje Almeida (guitar)+ Ensemble Atlantique with Tom Jahn (conductor, arranger), Alexander Vicar (violin), Julian Schad (violin), Verena Foutsop (viola), Eugen Bazijan (cello), Robert Vogg (saxophone, flute), Bernhard Girlinger (flugel horn) The singer, dancer and percussionist Dobet Gnahoré can certainly be described as one of the superstars of the African continent.
She grew up in a family of artists and can look back on a long career in which she won a Grammy Award in 2010 and played over 800 concerts worldwide.
She has used the corona lockdown productively and recorded her sixth album “Couleur” in Abidjan.
The result is a danceable work that reflects the different sounds of urban West Africa.
Live, she not only impresses with her energetic program and her unmistakable voice, but above all with her legendary dance interludes.  

August 04 – open-air stage 7:30 p.m.

With the support of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts The Freilichtbühneforms the southern boundary of the Red Gate ensemble. The three water towers are considered the oldest existing waterworks in Central Europe. It served as Augsburg’s drinking water supply for 463 years from 1416.

Before the event, there is the opportunity to take part in a guided tour of the water towers. The tours will take place around 18:00. Pre-registration requested at welterbe.veranstaltungen@augsburg.de