Music: Izaline Calister sings stories for a Winternacht

Commissioned by Winternachten, the Curaçaon diva collected stories on the Dutch Antilles, Aruba, South Africa, Indonesia, Surinam and the Netherlands. With Ed Verhoeff, Sven Happel and Roël Calister.

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Date and time Saturday 17 January 2009 22:10 tot 23:00 uur
Location Theater aan het Spui - grote zaal

For two years, during tours with Winternachten, Curaçaon singer Izaline Calister collected stories on the Dutch Antilles, Aruba, South Africa, Indonesia and Surinam. But in the Netherlands too did she find old folk tales and legends which she put to music. Izaline Calister performed with this brand new repertoire. With Ed Verhoeff (guitar), Sven Happel (bass), and Roël Calister (percussion).

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Izaline Calister

(Curaçao, 1969) is a singer-songwriter as well as a composer. In her compositions she intertwines the traditional music of her island of birth, Curaçao, with jazz. A speciality of Calister is that she is recognized internationally, while singing jazz in a minority language, Papiamento. On Curaçao she scored two number one hits with it. Calister came to the Netherlands when she was eighteen and studied singing at a conservatory. She performs with her own band, but frequently works with other groups and theatrical companies. Commissioned by Winternachten, she collected stories on the Dutch Antilles, Aruba, in South Africa, Indonesia, Suriname and the Netherlands, adapting them to music. Thus giving rise to a repertoire of sung stories about the spider Anansi, the legend of Borobudur and The Saleswoman of Stavoren, among others.
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