Yallah Yallah presents: Masters Of Syria

Mireille Bittar - Soprano. Finished her Masters in Classical Singing at the Conservatory of Amsterdam in 2018 where she is currently involved as a guest teacher. Mireille Bittar is from Syria, studied at the High Institute of Music in Damascus, worked with the Syrian Women Oriental Ensemble and many other orchestras inside and outside Syria, has been living in the Netherlands since 2015 and is the founder of the Mozaiek Ensemble.

The Syrian singer Shaza Hayek (1981) studied at the Conservatory in Damascus and fled to the Netherlands with her family a few years ago. Shaza Hayek is one of the leading interpreters of the genre. Just in the Netherlands, she soon appeared at the VPRO program Free Sounds, among others.

Imagine a musician with stories from the street, the linguistic feeling of Gerard Reve and the charm of James Dean and voilà, you have Freez. This Zwolle songsmith starts his career as a hip hopper and now writes songs full of dark romance.

From behind the piano he forges serious rap with catchy melodies that he plays live with the band. His music is raw, urban and honest with a huge dose of sense of language and poetry. Hip-hop noir that disguises itself as a catchy pop. Songs full of reflections on the life of himself and the people around him, sincere and not shy of what lives in the shadow. It is not for nothing that Typhoon, Rico & Sticks and Spinvis like to work with him and he has repeatedly been a guest artist for a full Ziggo Dome and Heineken Music Hall. After his debut album Les Demoiselles, Freez takes you on his new album in his quest from a young rapper to a man who wants to excel in life and in music. The only artist who quietly calls Arctic Monkeys, Spinvis and Snoop Dogg in one breath and then, grinning, takes you back the other way just as hard.

Yallah! Yallah! points the way to the east with the hottest and wildest party squatters from the Arab world: From Moroccan hip hop to Egyptian wedding music, via Lebanese speeddabke to stairs from Syria. Created at Lowlands 2017, since then a guarantee for bubble-breaking dance floors. Forget fairy tales and belly dancers: In the 1,002 night we dance on real Arab grooves, Yallah!

Known as the Queen of Arabic Hip Hop, Malikah is one of the founders of Hip Hop in the Levant, and across the Arab world.

A founding member of Arab Hip Hop group Arap, Eslam jawaad went on to record, perform and tour with Gorillaz, The Good The Bad and The Queen, Africa Express, and Wu Tang.

Als theater in het hart van de stad willen we er zijn voor álle Amsterdammers. Daarom maken we theater voor alle inwoners van onze stad, omdat theater bij uitstek zorgt voor verbinding tussen mensen. Lieve Stad, – geïnspireerd door de woorden van voormalig burgemeester Eberhard van der Laan – is ónze liefdesverklaring aan de stad Amsterdam en haar diversiteit aan inwoners.

Gebundeld in anderhalve week presenteren we meerdere voorstellingen die verhalen uit de stad vertellen, frisse perspectieven bieden en ontmoetingen met het (nu nog) onbekende zijn.

Met Lieve Stad, vieren we onze verschillen - of ze nu cultureel, sociaal, economische of fysiek van aard zijn. Het gaat ons om het samenbrengen van mensen, in de stad, in het theater, in de maatschappij. Hoe leven we samen en welke verhalen dragen alle individuen en groepen met zich mee? Hoe verbinden die verhalen ons? Dit laten zien, horen en voelen is het uitgangspunt van het Lieve Stad,.