IDA KELAROVA   ‘Open Your Heart and Sing’

-17th-19th Febuary 2012-Boswedden House, Cornwall

Venue: Near Penzance, West Cornwall

Shakti Tantra are very happy to be able to promote IDA KELAROVA and her extraordinary voice and talent and offer a unique opportunity to join one of  her powerful and profound  workshops.

Workshop details:
Starts: Friday 17th February – registration at 5.00pm

Ends: Sunday 19th February at 4.00pm

Venue: Boswedden House, Cape Cornwall, St. Just , Penzance

Cost: £250 which includes light lunch Saturday and Sunday,

Boswedden House offer B&B at £35 per night.

To book please email Hilly on balleswidden@btinternet.com, tel: 07855 446660.

A little background on Ida:
IDA’s father, KOLOMAN BITTO, was one of the greatest personalities in the branch of music in her country. He had a beautiful pure Roma heart. Music was his life. He made a decision for IDA. Even though nowadays it is him and his music to have become IDA’s chief source of inspiration, she started to study piano and violoncello at the age of 6 already. She studied with her first excellent teachers at the People’s Music School in Opava and later at Janácek’sAcademy of Music in Brno. After completing her studies, she joined Divadlo na Provázku (The Theatre on the String), one of the most famous theatres of that time. In 1982 IDA moved to Wales, in 1985 to Denmark, in 1988 to Norway and then back to Wales.

After the death of her father, she understood that her father’s blood runs in her veins so strongly, that at least through songs she can give back all the love she received from him and voice his legacy also to other people. She started to give concerts on her own, singing and playing the piano. In 1995 IDA returned home for good. She lives in a small town in Czech-Moravia Highlands. IDA is a founder of The International School for Human Voice. This school is a place where IDA wants to settle her unique work and thus provide a base for opportunities to meet other ethnic groups or cultures. The School is based on knowledge and experience of IDA’s fifteen years of art work in Western Europe and the inspiration from her Eastern Gypsy culture roots.

Together with Desiderius Duzda they founded in 1998 a gypsy band : ROMANO RAT. With this band, they perform successfully all over the world. They also published an album together called IDA KELAROVA & ROMANO RAT (Gypsy Blood). In 1999, IDA also founded a chorus of Roma female singers CHAJA, which became attractive part of Romano Rat and IDA’s concerts at international festivals. The chorus also enriches the concerts by female dynamics, which represents very important part of Roma culture.

Romano Rat and Chaja are a group of young talented artists, who give concerts together, compose and record… or teach all over the world and share a common journey : they sing and play for everyone, regardless of the colour of skin.
IDA says : “When my father died, I could not cry, but I was singing, I was singing and I have sung ever since…
He always told me :
“Open your throat, open your heart, do not fear anything and sing” (“phudrav okirlo, phudrav o jilo, mra data, gil’av”).  I believe that everybody who sings from their heart and feels every note of our songs shall find enormous love in themselves”.