Sofiane Saidi, Camélia Jordana, Aïta Mon Amour
- Mittwoch, juli 15
- 21:30-23:35
- Theatre Antique Boulevard des Lices, 13200 Arles, Frankreich
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Traditionally, the médahates, the female praise-singers of western Algeria, animated celebrations and rites of passage by drawing on Sufi repertoires, popular poetry and the improvisation of the cheikhates. Long reserved for women, this practice slipped, during the colonial era, into the shadow of taverns. With broad, full voices, bendirs and rababs drive the dance and trance, while carrying words of freedom, social critique and intimacy, sometimes expressed starkly. Cheikha Remitti gave this repertoire a defining face within raï.
On 15 July 2026 at the Théâtre Antique in Arles, Sofiane Saidi assembles a group to pay tribute to these voices. The singing remains central; the rabab’s strings give way to Théo Ceccaldi’s violin and his brother Valentin’s cello, the percussion preserves the pulse of the bendirs, and the keyboards open a contemporary soundscape. Between Constantine, Sidi Bel Abbès and Algerian and Amazigh family trajectories, memory circulates and is renewed. With Camélia Jordana (vocals), Sofiane Saidi (vocals, keyboards), Théo Ceccaldi (violin), Valentin Ceccaldi (cello) and Tao Erlich (drums, percussion), this set pays homage to women, to Algeria and to an art that resists.
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Theatre Antique
Boulevard des Lices, 13200 Arles, Frankreich