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Because I’m a girl- concert
12-06-’08 This Friday, Izaline is involved in the concert, led by Karima on the festival Mundial in Tilburg. The concert is organised by ‘Plan Nederland’ to tell people about the needs of girls in India. Other artists involved are Candy Dulfer, Edsilia Rombley, Anouk and DJ Isis.
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Barbulètè tour, Aruba and Curaçao
02-06-’08 This summer Izaline is touring with the Ricciotti Ensemble, a chamber orchestra consisting of 40 young musicians. They treat audiences in unexpected places with surprise-concerts, playing music of different styles and times. The tour will visit The Netherlands in July and will go to Aruba and Curaçao too! Check the schedule for exact dates.
Visit the site of The Ricciotti Ensemble.
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Book presentation
17-05-’08 A book with personal stories and pictures is being published by ‘De Volkskrant’ and ‘Uitgeverij J.M. Meulenhoff’. It is called ‘De Antillen en ik’ (‘The Antilles and me’) and depicts the memories of some 40 famous Antilleans, edited by John Leerdam.
Apart from being the writer of one of the stories, Izaline will sing at the presentation of the book in KIT, Amsterdam, on May 26. More on the site of the publishers.
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Lady sings... in Shanghai
17-05-’08 The documentary ‘Izaline Calister - Lady sings the Tambú’, directed by Miluska Rosalina is being screened on the 14th
Shanghai TV Festival in China.
More on the site of the festival.
More info on the film on the site of MemphisFilm (Dutch).
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‘Strife for perfection’
29-04-’08 April the 5th, Izaline artistically supervised a tribute night to Curaçao-artist Elis Juliana. It turned out to be a beautiful show in Teatro Luna Blou on Curaçao. On this occasion, local newspaper ‘Èxtra’ published an interview with 80-year old maestro ‘Ompi Elis’, who speaks true words about artistic and personal goals. Read the interview (in Papiamentu) on the press-section.
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A cheque of Naf 75,000 for ‘Mai’
13-04-’08 Lately Izaline became chairman of foundation ‘Mai Nederland’. In that function, Izaline was handed over a donation of the municipality of The Hague.
‘Curaçao is the loveliest island in the world, but with some problems too: children dropping out of school, poverty, criminality. Music can’t solve that, and I’m very proud to be the chairman of the new foundation ‘Mai Nederland’.
Last week I recieved a cheque for NAF 75,000 ($ 43,000) of the municipality of The Hague to help support the work of the foundation.
Thanks very, very much!’
More about the foundation and their work on stichtingmai.org.
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Concert in Sofia
28-02-’08 March 28, Izaline and band performed in Sofia, Bulgaria. For pictures of the concert, go to picturepage.
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Izaline on iTunes!
05-05-’07 Two recent cd's of Izaline are now made available through iTunes. They are Kanta Héléle (’06) and Krioyo (’04). Check it out! ».
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