11: Khatia Turmanidze Finds Her Voice

Meet 17 year old Khatia, who lives 700 metres above sea level in the singing village of Merisi in Ajara, West Georgia. Despite being 2 hours from the nearest city, Khatia is not cut off - She has friends all over the world who have come to learn songs from her family - from Melbourne Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Austria, Ireland, UK and beyond. Hear how she was finally convinced to join in her family’s songs around the supra table. Enjoy the sounds of Merisi, like the babbling waterfalling and the singing birds recorded live on our trip there in April. To watch Ialoni's concert for Oxford Contemporary Music go to https://www.ocmevents.org/whats-on/ialoni To watch the video of the 'supra in the road' go to: https://vimeo.com/26926089?fbclid=IwAR1jZXHirEAwroF6L3TQHsle0P0DFLmCpKAveXLDXMnmTMQCyrrfrbz5GXQ Voices of the Ancestors by Holly Taylor-Zuntz and Susan Thompson. If you enjoyed this episode, why not buy the creators a coffee? On ko-fi.com/voicesoftheancestors or Support the podcast on patreon https://www.patreon.com/voicesoftheancestors Help the podcast become sustainable by becoming a monthly Ko-Fi subscriber with access to extras (for this episode monthly subscribers can see videos of Nana singing during the interview). Sign up for our email updates and never miss an episode: eepurl.com/hhgoOf Navigate this episode with the searchable transcript, available here voicesoftheancestors.co.uk/transcripts. Music in this episode: Ialoni, Sakhioba, Eteri Darchidze, the Turmanidze family and the Eclesiastical Chant University of Tbilisi.