Multicultural Arts Victoria in partnership with Regional Arts Victoria presents

Kavisha Mazzella Trio - New music with ancient roots

Victorian Tour 6 - 31 August 2009

Kavisha Mazella (pic by Simon Darby)

2009 Victorian tour of the Kavisha Mazzella Trio, will tour to 9 regional centres across the state produced by Multicultural Arts Victoria in partnership with Regional Arts Victoria .

The Kavisha Mazzella Trio performs two sets of music and poetic story telling that expresses Kavisha's experience of migration, joyful and painful, and one's place in Australia spiritually and physically.

Kavisha Mazzella Trio play an energetic fusion of Italian folk and country music with Kavisha's original music and lyrics. This show is rich in humour, pathos and audience participation.

The Trio play new music with ancient roots: Northern Hemisphere meets Southern, Old world meets New with a Mediterranean gypsy folk Southern Hemisphere twist.

Regional Touring

MAV and Regional Arts Victoria are proudly touring the Kavisha Mazzella Trio to Drysdale, Moorabin, Ruffy, Warragul, Mildura, Colac, Hamilton, Portland and Montrose in August 2009

Schedule

For the schedule, please visit http://www.rav.net.au/performing-arts-touring/archived-tours/11.

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Kavisha Mazella Trio (pic by Meaghan Smith)

Mazzella's voice has a wonder ful purity of tone and can lift over a melodic line with bell-like, weightless grace. But she can also stride through a rousing folk anthem, or - with some vibrant, percussive guitar - make the audience sing along, as on her spirited encore, Gypsy Song. Jessica Nicholas ~ The Age

Kavisha Mazzella Trio

Kavisha Mazzella Trio play an energetic fusion of Italian folk music with Kavisha’s original music and poetic lyrics.

Rich in humour and audience participation, the show is comprised of music and storytelling that expresses Kavisha’s experience of migration - joyful and painful - and life in Australia.

The show is strongly multicultural and invites audiences into the rarely heard world of Italian folk music.

Hauntingly beautiful, the traditional repertoire goes back 600 years.

The members of the trio - Kavisha Mazzella (vocals, guitar), Irini Vela (bouzouki) and Peter Vadiveloo (percussion) share a passion for Flamenco, Greek and Italian folk sounds finding their rich modal and rhythmic styles help them express the experience of having migrant roots and living in Australia.

Trio leader, Kavisha Mazzella, has been writing and singing her own music for 20 years.

She has been performing at folk festivals in Australia and internationally and has won various awards including the 1998 ARIA for Best World Music Album for Fisherman’s Daughter and the Italia Nel Mondo Award from the Italian Government in 2000 for her contribution to Italian Culture in Australia.

Kavisha sings with the voice of a heartbroken angel.
Victoria Laurie, The Australian

More Information

www.multiculturalarts.com.au

http://www.rav.net.au/