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2026


Saturday 18 April
Evening: Concert
Cafe Oto


Doors 7.00pm
Music 7.45pm
Ends 11.40pm


Mazen Kerbaj, “Starry Night”

Improvisation recorded by  Kerbaj on the balcony of his flat in Beirut, on the night of 15 to 16 July 2006. Diffusion.

Fatima Lahham فاطمة اللحام

Recorder-playing vocalist whose songs are inspired by baroque and Arabic music and birdsong.

Dania  

Architect of textured, neo-ambient soundscapes; she explores sound and identity, in particular how the latter has fractured in a postcolonial world. Founder of experimental platform Paralaxe Editions.

HUUUM هوم

Omid Darvish, Rojin Sharafi and Alvaro Collao León’s live project brings together Iranian vocals, atypical rhythms, electronic beats and microtonal sound.

Julmud جُلموْد

Ramallah-based music producer, researcher and sound engineer/designer. Collaborators include Al Nather, Muqata’a, Haykal, Baraari, Makimakkuk and Walaa Sbait.

Plus more to be announced.

Buy tickets from Cafe Oto:

Festival pass £30 advance

Saturday night (Cafe Oto) £17 advance; £20 door

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Access:

Cafe Oto events take place on the ground floor, with step-free access and accessible toilets.

We offer 2 for 1 tickets for guests’ carers.

We are more than happy to reserve you seats and/or space for a wheelchair.

To arrange any of the above, or if you have any questions to help make your visit more comfortable, please email us here. 

Fatima Lahham فاطمة اللحام is a Syrian-British musician who improvises with her recorders and voice. Her practice is influenced by baroque music, dhikr, Fairouz songs and sounds of the sea. Fatima performs and leads music workshops across London and the UK at venues like Cafe Oto, Wigmore Hall and the Gaza Biennale, as well as in Austria, France, Germany, Utrecht and Cairo. Her solo album bulbul (FS Records) tells stories about birds, home and the spaces in between. Fatima is a researcher at the University of Manchester, working with communal music-making practices and how they relate to imagination, healing and justice.