A women’s peace choir performed at three Oxford locations recently, as Jacob Manuschka explains.
The AMAR Yazidi women's choir performed to full audiences at the Weston Bodleian Library, St Michael's Summertown, and lastly at Sommerville College.
This was following on from events at Westminster Abbey and Windsor Cumberland Lodge. Following their Oxford concerts they had a recording for Radio 3’s Music Planet, and they also gave interviews that were broadcast on Radio 4 and BBC World Service.
The choir comprises of Yazidi women who live in Khanke refugee camp in Kurdistan and are being supported by the AMAR foundation.
It is made up of eight singers who have been living in this tented camp since 2014, following the ISIS attacks on the Yazidis on Mount Sinjar.
The choir has also recorded a short album which will be available on digital channels in the autumn.
The AMAR Foundation has been providing music lessons and offering support to the choir for the past five years.
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