Ridina Ahmedová a Mirka Novak
Now and here: music! A concert for Ridina Ahmed, Mirka Novak and the audience.
A concert that blurs the line between audience and performers. Vocalists Ridina Ahmed and Mirka Novak will lead the evening, but the music will be created together with the audience from simple assignments that everyone can do. Music as a shared experience!
And now you might be scared, you're not up to it, I can't sing, it's not for me. It's for you! It's really for everyone. Try to come, you can just watch quietly the whole time. Nobody's gonna force you to do anything. You'll only get involved if you want to. We hope your curiosity will be stronger :-)
You can come just to listen, but if you want, we will try to create music together in the present moment - with melody, rhythm and silence.
It doesn't matter if you just sing in the shower or if you are an experienced musician. All are welcome. The whole thing will take place in freedom, and silent listeners are welcome. And no other concert will be the same as this one!
Both Ridina and Mirka have decades of experience on music stages, currently they are members of the Hlaskontrabas Oktet, currently nominated for the Anděl 2025 awards in the Jazz category for their album Kaleidoscapes (Animal music) They are experienced workshop teachers who often work with the general public. And they both love impro!
Ridina Ahmed is a singer, performance lecturer. She has collaborated with a number of musicians (Floex, Vladimir 518 and others) and has written and co-written music for several theatre shows. For many years she has performed alone with a looper (album Hlasem, 2006), Together with Petr Tichý Ridina founded the duo HLASkontraBAS (nominated for the Anděl Awards 2016 for the album of the same name) and in 2024 the album Hlaskontrabas Oktet: Kaleidoscapes was released on the Animal music label (nominated for the Anděl Awards 2025). Ridina is also involved in theatre and in the creation of audio documentaries for Czech Radio - podcast series Sádlo and Odpustit? have won numerous awards in the Czech Republic and abroad.
Mirka Novak is a singer, a vocal experimenter who loves improvisation, frontwoman of several bands dedicated to jazz, soul and funk. In 2022, she released her solo debut album ‘Malbum’ on the Slovak label Hevhetia, featuring guest appearances by Zdeněk Bína, Endru and Ridina Ahmedová. For the past 10 years, she has been traveling regularly to the USA to record her original songs and collaborate with world-class musicians in Austin, Washington D.C., Boston and New York. She performs alone with a loop station or in jazz groups with great musicians such as Federico G. Peña (Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller), Tarus Mateen (Betty Carter), Dave Manely (Jill Scott), David Haynes (Chaka Khan). She is the founder of the Studio Singing School, where she also teaches and conducts voice workshops.