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Life is Jazz

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See Through Café presents
Life is Jazz

PREMIERE 12th December 2020, 3 pm
WHERE online on the Mother Tongues Festival YouTube channel, link below

The See Through Café is a free and open space, where you will meet new people who have an interest in art, diversity, community and who love to learn something new about places, people and creativity. The See Through Café project is curated by visual artist Anca Danila, sociologist Evgeny Shtorn and Mother Tongues Festival curator Francesca La Morgia, presented in collaboration with Rua Red and supported by Creative Ireland South Dublin and South Dublin County Arts Office.

Join this live See Through Café via YouTube.

Meet the guest

Aleka Potinga

Born in Timisoara, Romania, Aleka has fast become one of the rising jazz vocalists on the Irish jazz scene. She has a Bachelor of Arts in classical music performance as a cellist from the Bucharest Music University and a First Class Honours Bachelor of Arts in Jazz performance as a vocalist from Newpark Music Centre – Dublin.
As a cellist she has toured around Europe with orchestras and chamber music ensembles: Romanian Youth Orchestra, Sonoro Interferente Project. She was part of the soundtrack recording of the movie ‘Youth Without Youth’ by Francis Ford Coppola.
Her career as a jazz vocalist developed in Romania and Ireland playing with musicians like Luiza Zan, Alex Man, Albert Tajti, Ciprian Pop (RO), Rick Condit (US), Chris Guilfoyle, Barry Donohue, Izumi Kimura, Cora Venus Lunny, Matt Jacobson, Ronan Guilfoyle, Conor Guilfoyle, Cello Ireland, Michael Buckley (IE).
She is currently teaching as a lecturer in the Jazz and Contemporary Music Programme at Dublin City University and is artistic director of the DCU Jazz Choir.
In 2018 Aleka sang in Tommy Halferty’s ‘7 Musical Steps to Camus’. In 2019 Aleka played ANAM Festival with Ronan Guilfoyle’s project Kanda, collaborating with Indian percussionist Ramesh Shotam as well as Irish traditional musicians Martin Nolan, Ellen Cranitch and Peter Browne. Both her debut EP, ‘Aleka’ from 2016 and her latest CD release in April 2019, ‘Person I Knew’ with the stellar band of Chris Guilfoyle, Michael Buckley, Ronan Guilfoyle and legendary Dutch drummer Eric Ineke have received 4 star reviews in the Irish Times.

Aleka Potinga for the See Through Café - Mother Tongues Festival

Join the See Through Café premiere,
Saturday 12th December, 3 pm via YouTube.

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