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With Jazz-Rock for Peace - Big benefit concert planned with Leslie Mandoki

2022-03-26T07:17:26.384Z


Leslie Mandoki's "Soulmates" are currently rocking with Kamaliya - the Ukrainian pop icon who fled her native country. Together they are planning a big benefit concert in Munich. A visit to the Tutzinger Studio, where Bavaria's Minister of Art, Markus Blume, also stopped by.


Leslie Mandoki's "Soulmates" are currently rocking with Kamaliya - the Ukrainian pop icon who fled her native country.

Together they are planning a big benefit concert in Munich.

A visit to the Tutzinger Studio, where Bavaria's Minister of Art, Markus Blume, also stopped by.

Tutzing – On Friday in Burghausen they were once again on stage together: world-famous rock musicians and jazz legends, who Tutzing-based producer Leslie Mandoki has teamed up to form the “Mandoki Soulmates”.

The concert in the ducal city at the 51st Jazz Week was the first in months.

The Starnberger Merkur visited the Soulmates the evening before in the Tutzinger Studio during the warm-up.

Also present was the Ukrainian singer Kamaliya, who had fled her home country a few days after the start of the war.

"She's the big star in Ukraine," enthused Mandoki.

Bavaria's new arts minister Markus Blume didn't miss it either - and was inspired by the rousing studio concert.

“I once again experienced the power of music live.

Art and culture offer a healing haven during this painful time.

It was an illustrious group: from the legendary jazz fusion trumpeter Randy Brecker to the famous guitarist Mike Stern, who has played with many greats from Miles Davis to Blood, Sweat & Tears, and the ex-Tutzinger Tony Carey, who played with Ritchie Blackmore , Joe Cocker and Eric Burdon worked together, up to the Starnberg alto saxophonist Max Merseny.

"I feel for the refugees trying to escape the cruelty of this merciless war."

Leslie Mandokis

It's fitting that Kamaliya does music together with Mandoki: The 69-year-old knows what war means.

As a small child he witnessed the suppression of the popular uprising against the communist regime in his native Hungary in 1956 and fled to Germany in 1976.

The return to Burghausen, where he began his musical career at the Jazz Festival in 1976, was "an affair of the heart" for Mandoki.

"I feel for the refugees who are trying to escape the cruelty of this merciless war," he said. "So let's all help together by continuing to do our best to give peace a chance."

Minister Blume announced a charity concert for the refugees from Ukraine with Mandoki and Kamaliya on April 24 in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz.

The Free State has already set up a special scholarship program for twelve Ukrainian artists who have fled to Germany and is also making half a million euros available for art and culture projects related to Ukraine.

The CSU politician seemed to feel quite comfortable in the group of artists.

In between, Blume himself sat down at the drums and drummed a little.

Mandoki, who plays drums with the Soulmates, smiled understandingly.

He was visibly proud of having won all the musicians for the concert at relatively short notice after the relaxation of the pandemic rules.

In Tutzing they all had a lot to tell each other before they settled into the quite demanding pieces for the performance.

Mandoki had provided a few things with a mixture of works by Béla Bartók and his own pieces.

Long gone are the times when he moved into the limelight musically with the group Dschinghis Khan “Moscow”.

He would sing the old hit again for the first time in decades, he said in an interview, if he could end the Ukraine war with it.

The Soulmates have planned a tour through 18 German cities this year.

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Source: merkur

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