Koncert pro Tibet

Potala, o.p.s. and the association Czechs Support Tibet are organizing a Concert for Tibet, which will take place on Monday, November 18, in Prague's Futurum Music Bar.

The event will present musicians who share an interest in the situation in Tibet, which is far from free. The main guests of the evening will be Tibetan musician and singer Loten Namling and Tomáš Klus with their band Cílová skupina. In addition to their own songs, both performers will combine their voices in an original composition tailored for this special evening. Singer and guitarist Tibor Žida, drummer Tomáš Kerle, DJ Yukimura and other surprises will also be part of the program.

Loten Namling is a Tibetan singer, musician and cartoonist, lives in Switzerland, performs in many countries. He is not unknown in the Czech Republic either, in the past he has performed, for example, at the Losar Tibetan New Year celebrations or with the band Zrní. Born in exile in Dharamsala, India, his parents fled Tibet after the suppression of an anti-Chinese uprising in 1959 and the departure of the 14th Dalai Lama. He studied Tibetan classical court music and singing, traditional Tibetan opera ache lhamo, he masters the Tibetan lute damňen and interprets both these traditional genres as well as folk music of various regions of Tibet and his own songs. He founded the rock, later pop-rock, band Porok Karpo, he likes to experiment, explore the relationships and connections of songs with culture. As a Tibetan rights activist, in 2013 he dragged a black coffin with the inscription Free Tibet on foot from Bern to Geneva. Dodo Hunziker made a documentary about him Tibetan Warrior (Tibetan Warrior, 2015).