Maija Kauhanen sings about child brides at WOMEX from Michal Shapiro on Vimeo. As you might have noticed from my last posting, this past year's WOMEX had some pretty powerful women performing. Among them was most certainly Finland's Maija Kauhanen, whose day case was exceptionally compelling. … [Read more...]
Luciana Jury at WOMEX—Now THAT’s interpretation!
https://vimeo.com/250799954 Luciana Jury was one of the day case acts at WOMEX 2017, and she started her solo show off-mic, entering from the audience area and walking and singing to the stage. This was the start of a series of extremely emotional songs, wherein Ms. Jury used her vocal flexibility to make each song a small theater piece. This kind of dramatization is not for … [Read more...]