Cheikha Rabia & Esraa Warda perform live at Le Guess Who? 2022 as part of the Hidden Musics project.

00:00 Ya lala Ya lala 
09:14 Li kwani ou bladou m'nin
15:09 Cheikh Tolba
22:25 Ila walat
32:47 Gha el baroud (allaoui)

About
Cheikha Rabia and Esraa Warda both hail from Algeria, but today, they live in opposite corners of the world. Rabia, a renowned singer with over five decades of experience in keeping Bedouin vocal tradition alive, is based in Paris; Warda, a prolific dancer expert in traditional North African dance forms, lives in New York. When they come together, the diaspora divas provide a glimpse into the disappearing culture of ‘Cheikhat’ and Rai dancers - foregrounding Algerian tradition through a powerful dance and song performance in which the ancestral and the contemporary find common ground.

Captured at TivoliVredenburg’s Pandora on Saturday, 12 November during Le Guess Who? 2022.

Cheikha Rabia - Lead Singer
Esraa Warda - Dancer
Sami Bouchareb - Keyboard
Ahmed Bensidhoum - Percussion (Guellal)
Bendriss - Flute (Gasba)

Direction: Dammes Kieft Camera: Anaïs Saebu, Jonathan Sipkema, Nicky Pajkić, Rikash Gobardhan, Yuma Eekman, Dammes Kieft Production: Claudia Rison, Studio Dammes Coordination: Barry Spooren Montage: Dammes KieftSound recording: Marc Broer

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