ALLSTAR REFJÚDŽÍ BAND – transcultural music (CZ)

The Allstar Refjúdží Band is unique musical theatre project with significant social outreach. Its mission is opening the topics connected with migration and exploring possibilities for resolving social problems through music and theatre productions.

The music of ASRB is comprised of original compositions and traditional and popular songs with new arrangements. The music is inspired by variety of folk and popular traditions - Chinese, Kurdish, Central and Eastern European and brass band music from New Orleans - but is contemporary in its form. It reflects different cultural and ethnic backgrounds of the band members but strives to be an expression of their present reality. The lyrics of the songs are a combination of original texts by band members and associates of the band, and poems and writings that lend themselves to the group's themes of voluntary and involuntary migration, human rights, racism and nationalism. They are sometimes personal, sometimes thematic and sometimes a combination of the two. A driving beat with instrumental arrangements for brass, woodwinds, strings and accordion is the basis for songs sung in five different languages.
More at: http://www.asrb.cz/asrb/

The Allstar Refjúdží Band will except of the evening concert perform also during the festival opening on Friday, August 26, 2011 at 1:30 pm in Town Castle Area.