Mechelen «-» Everywhere with Bel Ayre
Time forces us to think about the way in which we travel, what we want to discover and how we can make it all feasible and justifiable. In Songs of Travel, Bel Ayre takes the listener searching for how and why we travel. The ensemble aims to take a universal view of our desire to travel, with songs from every corner of the world. Songs of Travel is a live version of Around the World in 72 Songs, a video project in which Liselot De Wilde goes in search of songs from all over the world, accompanied by a barrel organ and the journalist Nellie Bly, who was the first to travel around the world in 72 days in 1889-90. The project pays special attention to female singers, composers and singer-songwriters.
Lieselot De Wilde: voice, tenor banjo, barrel organ
Peter Verhelst: guitar, oud, shruti box
Séraphine Stragier: cello, Celtic harp, yayli tanbur, voice
Farnoosh Khodadadeh: daf, voice
23.04.2022
16:30 — 17:00
Cultural Centre Mechelen
Minderbroedersgang
Mechelen