Chela and Buska are ensembles dedicated to learning, singing and disseminating the traditional polyphonic choral music of Georgia.
Joined August 2019
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25 Feb 2021
Our very first album! “Gaumarjos!” from @ChelaBuska is a collection of 17 live tracks, a mix of traditional #Georgian love ballads, working songs, and ancient sacred chants. Purchase to download from Bandcamp at chelabuska.bandcamp.com/albu…, or on CD from georgianchoircambridge.wordp…
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5 Apr 2023
Join us in St Clement’s Church, on Bridge Street, Cambridge at 6pm on Sunday 23rd April. We will be offering Georgian wine in the interval, and our CD “gaumarjos” will be on sale at a special price of £8. To reserve seats in advance email chelatickets@gmail.com #Georgianmusic
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30 Nov 2022
3 years to the day since our last concert, Cambridge Georgian Choirs invite you to join us for our Orthodox Christmas Wassail in Grantchester on Jan 7th! Come and enjoy Georgian carols and folk songs in Grantchester village church (as seen on TV 😉).
Book: chelatickets@gmail.com
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Cambridge Georgian Choirs retweeted
15 Nov 2022
“Government interventions are sweeping the state-dominated arts and heritage sector, with layoffs and demotions affecting public employees from archaeologists and curators to theater directors.” —@MayaJaggi on artistic repression in Georgia go.nybooks.com/3fYUyPa
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21 Feb 2022
Georgian literature at Oxford, highlighted this week by @eurolitnet! eurolitnetwork.com/georgian-…
21 Feb 2022
This week @eurolitnet is collaborating with Oxford University's Georgian Translation students. The students tutor Lia Chokoshvili are writing about Goderdzi Chokheli’s Human Sadness &Short Stories. We hope this will lead to greater recognition of Georgian literature in English.
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Cambridge Georgian Choirs retweeted
19 Jul 2021
How did Georgian songs come to the UK?
Our live stage show is at the @OmnibusTheatre on Monday 26th July (1 week from today!)
£6 Tickets available now omnibus-clapham.org/engine-r…
#songtheatre #georgianpolyphony #georgiansinging #womensvoices #devisedtheatre #theatre #clapham
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Cambridge Georgian Choirs retweeted
7 Jun 2021
The wonderful artist and puppet master Revaz Gabriadze sadly passed away yesterday. His enduring legacy speaks to the singular ability of art to simultaneously explore, sustain, and transcend national culture and experience. So long Rezo! Thanks for everything.
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7 Jun 2021
What a sad loss. One of the greatest cultural icons of modern Georgia. RIP.
7 Jun 2021
We are very upset to learn of the death of the great Georgian artist #RezoGabriadze. RIP. bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-…
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26 May 2021
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Cambridge Georgian Choirs retweeted
1 Apr 2021
New episode: Behind the Scenes with Ialoni in Adjara -
Audio journey through the mountains of high Adjara, following იალონი Ialoni as they film for @librarycongress
Listen voicesoftheancestors.co.uk/
#soundcloud #spotify #applepodcasts
Ialoni's free concert youtu.be/CU7KO28QDDk
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Cambridge Georgian Choirs retweeted
14 Apr 2021
Today is Mother Tongue Day in Georgia! It commemorates the day in 1978 when protesters successfully opposed the Soviet govt's attempt to remove protections for the language. I wrote about the history of the word ენა ena 'tongue, language' here:
2 Nov 2020
Weekly Georgian Etymology: ენა ena 'tongue, language', from Old Georgian ႤႬႠ ena, from Proto-Kartvelian *nena 'tongue'. An early reanalysis of the prehistoric form, the root is probably ultimately a kind of nursery word like 'mama' and 'papa'.
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Cambridge Georgian Choirs retweeted
30 Mar 2021
If you’re fond of donkeys & like a bit of Georgian polyphonic singing accompanied by a panduri, check out @MandiliTrio
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Cambridge Georgian Choirs retweeted
7 Mar 2021
One more opportunity from @tbilisi_pmm 🇬🇪🇦🇿🇦🇲
An open call inviting women photographers and visual artists from Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan to apply to an Art Residency Accompanied by a Long-term Mentorship Program & Production Grant. @m_yeghiazaryan
bit.ly/3ehTt1C
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Cambridge Georgian Choirs retweeted
8 Mar 2021
Weekly Georgian Etymology: ბერიკაობა Beriḳaoba, Carnival festival. From ბერიკა beriḳa, carnival mummer, diminutive of Old Georgian ႡႤႰႨ beri old man, monk, goon, from Middle Persian pīr 'old'. A kind of folk theater with men dressed as animals often for satire & social protest.
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Cambridge Georgian Choirs retweeted
12 Mar 2021
Special thanks to @ElsDepuydt from Bruges Public Library @bibbrugge for sharing her thoughts about their nomination for the 2021 #DubLitAward.
The Eighth Life (for Brilka) by Nino Haratischwili, tr. @cctranslates & @the_germanist, pub @scribepub.
➡️dublinliteraryaward.ie/books…
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3 Mar 2021
Spring is coming, hurrah! And we've recorded a new song... 🌷🥀🌼🌸 #gazapkhuli
youtube.com/watch?v=WnQhViq5…
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Cambridge Georgian Choirs retweeted
28 Feb 2021
Enjoying the festival #georgiasfantastictavern very much @MayaJaggi ! Lovely surprise to see and hear the Chela Choir from Cambridge last night and Riveting Red @cctranslates !
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25 Feb 2021
#Georgia's Fantastic Tavern, a fabulous 4-day online festival of #Georgian literature, culture & food, starts today, 18:00 GMT! Pick your events (most are free) & log on/register here ⬇️
Chela's short contribution will play after Boris Akunin on Saturday. georgiasfantastictavern.com/
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