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®chestra ...
... is a heterogeneous music group made up of musicians who have their roots in popular, folkloric, street and classical music,
... gives great importance to the notion of culture as an uncommonly dynamic, hybrid phenomenon in which they themselves take part in,
... absorbs echoes and creates novel ones as musicians all over the world always have done and continue to do. It's that special moment of emotion which gives an impetus for an informal interplay between the existing and the novel - and ever with all regards for our predecessors.
... produced the cd Weeshuis with refugee-musicians which evoked wild enthusiasm to traveller-in-music Han Reiziger,
... was invited by Yo-Yo Ma to participate in his Silk Road Festival,
... presented on television Barend & Van Dorp the cd Vluchten kan niet meer?, of which the proceeds are intended for the relief of asylum seekers who are thrown out on the streets,
... performed at the Babylon Festival in Iraq, an event which is captured in the documentary From Bach to Boney M by Peter Sackman,
... visited Sarajevo, together with Mile Lukić who for the first time since he left his country, could perform there again,
... played music for schoolkids in Mostar, as part of a War Child project,
... was labeled in 2003 and 2004 by Radio Netherlands Music as one of the better class of Dutch world music acts,
... performed with the motion theatre BEWTH,
... elicited from Herman van Veen - a famous Dutch cabaret artist - the statement: "No-nonsense band, they touch you deeply in the heart",
... succesfully did their concert Echo’s van Overal in Schouwburg Orpheus at Apeldoorn, Theater De Lievekamp at Oss, the Amsterdam Concert Building, the Stadsschouwburg at Nijmegen and a number of other stages,
... calls on the audience if it isn't able to pay a visit to ®chestra - for instance, ®chestra does concerts at clinics and penitentiaries,
... appeared with Hind and with Erdal Erzinçan,
... performed together with the Dutch Youth String Orchestra.
... and travelled through Bosnia with Mile Lukić and the Colourful City Choir.