Date/Time: Sunday February 9th 2014 at 7pm
Venue: Troubadour Club, 263-267 Old Brompton Road, London, SW5 9JA

Your donation (whatever you decide) is also how you obtain tickets to the concert:                                                  1.Make your donation*                                                             2.Forward your receipt from justgiving to AnaMika.music1@gmail.com and request your ticket/s.           3.You will receive a confirmation email which serves as your e-ticket, so please print this and bring it to the venue.

Nelson Mandela - a healer, a leader, a legend. You are invited to a concert to celebrate this extraordinary man who has touched millions of hearts throughout the world.

Please note: The Troubadour Club has limited capacity - only 100 tickets are available.

Please request all tickets before Sunday February 2nd 2014. 

There will be a series of fantastic amateur singers in conjunction with Artpeggios Music and Art Academy performing everything from top number one pop chart hits (e.g. Adele) to Bossa Nova jazz to Motown! A super lineup!

The Troubadour club is a small venue in Earls Court which has hosted the likes of Adele, Ronnie Wood and Bob Dylan.

The full amount will go directly to the charity. 

This event and donation method is open to everyone so please forward this invitation to ALL your friends and family both here and abroad and ask them to donate something, even if they cannot attend the concert. Any amount would be very gratefully received by the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund.

Follow the event on facebook: https://m.facebook.com/events/803666736316865?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A22%7D&aref=22&__user=100007391257765 

Please donate to honour the memory of Nelson Mandela and support the amazing work of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund which he started. By doing so, you are supporting the absolute belief that all children should enjoy the absence of hunger, abuse, exploitation and homelessness. 

Nelson Mandela believed that it is possible to have a world where children live with dignity, are safe, nurtured and their voices heard. The transformation needed to create such a world requires every one of us to play a role.

Your support and attendance is greatly appreciated.

Wishing you well.

AnaMika

Event Host

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OUR ARTISTS

Dominique Lesourd

Born in Paris, French, Singer

I discovered the beauty of singing in my thirties after the birth of my third child. Starting by a classical  training in France where I sang opera arias , I had a few opportunities to sing in churches for weddings and funerals.  My arrival in London in 1998 made me reconsider my approach to music, looking for something more personal.  I tried some jazz tunes and recorded a few times in a studio. Since then I continued my explorations with world music, bossanova, jazz and blues. I had the pleasure to sing for a private concert as the main singer. I joined Artpeggios in 2013 where I pursue my training on various tunes, looking for improvisation and composition. For me singing  is a marvellous to communicate emotions and share with people.

 

Claire Nicolas

Claire Nicolas has been singing jazz as an amateur for twenty years. She studied jazz music in Paris at le CIM, Ariam, and Atla schools of music. She sang several years with a New Orleans Style Jazz Combo named 'What's up Doc?',and with a quartet named H2O.She is currently living in London and learning interpretation and composition at Artpeggios School of Music.

Jovana Backovic

Jovana Backovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia where she graduated composition from the Faculty of Music Art in 2006. She founded, composed for, organized and led the band ‘Arhai’ in Belgrade from 1998 and their debut album ‘Mysterion’ was released in 2006 on the national label PGP . In its Belgrade incarnation Arhai was a ten-piece electro-folk orchestra that developed a fusion of traditional music from the Balkan region with ambient sounds and jazz-influenced improvisation, using classical flute, ‘cello, piano, electric guitar, bass and percussion, along with a quartet of female singers. As a UK resident Jovana continued to create music under the name Arhai, moving toward solo performance using live electronics. When she moved in UK to complete her PhD thesis, she began her collaboration with British folk guitarist and tambura-player Adrian Lever and developed the current format of live multilayered vocals combined with tambura, tarabuka and electronics. This collaborative work was generously supported by Arts Council of England.

Her academic works include Silence’ (Lorca’s lyrics) for a choir (2000) / Piano suite (2000) / ‘Is it really me’ (Juan Ramon Jimenez lyrics) song for a voice and piano (2000) / String trio (2001) /  ‘Four haiku lyrics’ for voice, flute and marimba (2002) / ‘Crazy woman’ for female choir and two pianos (2004) / ‘Trilok Trio’ for clarinet, violoncello and marimba (2004) / ‘Inqualieren’ for two guitars (2004) /Basic moods ( string quintet ) Concertino for piano and orchestra (2006)‘Nigredo  ( 2010 ) ‘Echoes’ ( 2009 ) ‘The Balkanties’ ( 2012 ) these and more recent electroacoustic works  can be listened at www.myspace.com/jovanabackovic and https://soundcloud.com/jovana-backovic

Anamika Lakhani

Anamika is a South African singer-songwriter, whose style of singing is emotionally-charged and directly from her heart.  Anamika started singing at very young age. Trained in classical singing and musical theatre, she won numerous solo singing competitions.  Anamika followed another career for some time, and after moving to London a few years ago, she continued her musical training, and more in recently pop and rock music, with a leaning towards classical-crossover music. She has sung at concerts and charity events in London. Recently Anamika has begun songwriting and is influenced by Evanescence, Annie Lennox, Enya, Lara Fabian and Adele.

 

Chiara Oldano

Born in 1997, in France, Chiara is an Italian singer/songwriter influenced by Etta James, Celine Dion, Queen, Matt Corby. She has absorbed different musical cultures from each country she has lived in. She has sung since the age of 5 when she started having violin lessons in Belgium. But it was in Italy where she started classical training with an opera singer from The Scala di Milano who gave her the technique and skills of singing arias. In the meantime, she joined a choir, Piccoli Cantori di Torino, with whom she performed in different countries. As singing while playing violin wasn't possible she decided to take piano lessons. Then she moved to Nice at 14, where she continued classical training at the Conservatoire de Nice. Meanwhile she discovered a big interest in pop music and she met a professional teacher who taught her how to sing in a modern register and showed her that singing is not only reading music; first and foremost it's transmitting emotion. There she began writing her own songs. She is now 16, a student at the French Lycée in London, continuing to advance in piano and voice skills. She has recently started performing in London pubs. Find her facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chiara/236742346486661