JUE | Music + Art Festival : Mamer & IZ
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JUE | Music + Art : Mamer & IZ @ Mako Live House
The singer/songwriter Mamer was raised in Xinjiang, one of ten children for whom singing and playing the two-string dombra lute was as much a part of life as the sunrise. Out here - in this land of Turkic tongues and ethnic minorities - traditional music flows from yurts and across the sparsely inhabited steppes. And Mamer's voice, a low, resonant, magical vibration, still joins it. In 2002 Mamer moved to his second home in China's musical centre, Beijing; to a bungalow with a small courtyard from where he could see the sky. He put together IZ - a band whose name translates as 'footprints left by tradition' - and began delivering Kazak-language songs that both respected and updated tradition. Mamer became a fixture of the Beijing folk circuit, a star of venues including the legendary River Bar in Sanlitun. He also single-handedly kick-started China's alt-country scene.
40 Rmb (presale and students) // 50 rmb
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Mako Live House Inside Hongdian Art Factory, Courtyard 36 (500m south of Carrefour Shuangjing, inside small alley), Guangqu Lu, Chaoyang District 朝阳区广渠路36号院红点艺术工厂内（幸福贝贝南边）
