Helal Kashefi

artist biography

Helal Kashefi is from Afghanistan and lives in Vienna, Austria, since 2011. He plays "dambura", a traditional stringed instrument from central asia, and sings. His music is a unique mixture between tradition and modernity.

 

 

2023

 

concert in VENSTER99 with Lachsfarbe Links and Manul organized by No Expectation Records in Vienna

 

literary-musical reading „Ausgeborgte Erde“ („borrowed soil“) with afghan poet Ebrahim Amini at the community event „Mehmoni“ as a part of Muslim*Contemporary exhibition 2023 at MDW university in Vienna

 

musical acompaniment and performance in the theater piece „Exodus“ by Mikheil Charkviani as a part of Wiener Festwochen, a multidisciplinary art festival based in Vienna

 

 Workshop „Songwriting“ for adolescents as a part of the project „Demokratie was ist das?“ („democracy what is it?“)

 

2022

 

musical performance at the academic graduates party of the afghan educational association „IGASuS – Integrationdurch Bildung“

 

various appearanes at solidarity fundrising events in Vienna, for example for „Deserteur- und Flüchtlingsberatung“, „Seebrücke Wien“, usw.

 

musical performance and special arrangement of the song „neighbor“ with the choir „Wiener Beschwerdechor“ as a part of the project „OneEuropeOneCaucasus“ in the theater of Sargfabrik in Vienna

 

2021

 

literary-musical reading „Ausgeliehene Erde“ („borrowed soil“) with afghan poet Ebrahim Amini at the theather piece „Lost and Found“, as a part of the festival Festival „FREIFALL: Plateau Partagé#2“ in Innsbruck

 

musical accompaniment to the poetry reading of Muhammet Ali Baş and Ozan Zakariya Keskinkiliç at Muslim*Contemporary exibition 2021 in Semper Depot in Vienna

 

2019

 

concert at the afghan evening „Else auf Reisen“ („Else on travel“) with a photography exhibition about Afghanistan by Roland Schweizer in Café Else in Vienna

 

2018

 

concert in Café Au in Vienna

 

concert in in the bookstore „Stuwerbuch“ in Vienna

 

first performances with other afghan musicians at the afghan newyears's event Nawroz, organized by the afghan association „Dornaha" in Kulturhaus Brotfabrik in Vienna