OPEN JAZZ FESTIVAL

NAMA DAMA

Nama Dama is a Cyprus-based performance artist weaving folk, electronic, and poetic ritual into a transformative live experience.

Using live looping, voice layering, and theatrical presence, she turns her one-woman act into a spellbinding ceremony.

Since releasing her debut EP “Confessions to My Songbird” in 2021, Nama Dama has enchanted audiences across Europe — from

Tremor Festival in the Azores, to Glastonbury Festival 2025. In 2024, she was awarded “Young Artist of the Year” by the Cyprus

Theatre Organisation. Her current show, PAGAN SOUL, is a powerful, mythic performance that blends ancestral resonance with

contemporary sonic ritual. Built around her signature live looping technique, it explores themes of love, resistance, and memory —

deeply informed by her Cypriot and Pontic Greek roots, and her connection to Ukraine, her second homeland. The show is designed

for both indoor and outdoor stages, seamlessly adapting from intimate storytelling spaces to immersive festival environments.

RAVE AT YOUR FICTIONAL BORDERS

Dave De Rose (Mulatu Astatke, Electric Jalaba), Marius Mathiszik (Jan Matiz, I Work in Communications) and Salim Akki (Majid Bekkas, Urban Folklore) are Rave At Your Fictional Borders.

They play entangled, utopian-jazz which is both genre-fluid and psychedelic in nature. Inspired by modern theories suggesting that the physical phenomenon of quantum entanglement

could describe the mystery between two or more human beings — separated in space, yet sharing a unique and seemingly destined connection — these three artists,

hailing from different border lines, come together to create sounds that are more than worldly.

 Tzimkas & Interbalkanik friends 
This is a meeting of musicians with a combination of jazz and Balkan music, based on compositions by Lakis Tzimkas and some of his arrangements of traditional pieces,
 with special guests from Greece, Bulgaria and North Macedonia.