Music Saves Life

On October 28, 2022 in Swakopmund, Namibia took place one of a kind charity concert “Music saves life” for the very first time in Namibia, where all music lovers could genuinely admire brilliant performance given by famous flute player from UK, Polina Loubnina and her Namibian friends - Ermelinda Thataone and Arrow Sparks.

 

Thank you very much Carmen Waldeck & Dance Factory Swakopmund cc! Alexandra, Jenica and Mikayla are absolutely talented and amazing. Your dancing show added more vibrancy to this concert.

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Thank you Alexander Christow & Corporate Event Gear - Namibia for all your job and support! Love these colors and the light! And as Polina said, such a great sound, which was provided by your team, can rarely be done in Africa as well as in Europe, and it was a pleasure for her to perform here.

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Special thanks to the photographer Olga's PhotoDesign. 

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Thank you Сoncert promoter Olga Nesterenko & Design-Nova for the organisation and all advertising.

 

Polina Loubnina was born in Siberia, after graduating from Novosibirsk Music College specialising in flute, she performed with the Poteshnyi Theatre Group in St. Petersburg.

She moved to Windhoek ( Namibia) and got deeply involved in Art and Music scene in Namibia, working on several projects with many Namibian and international artists (including Jackson Kaujeua, Willie Mbende, Axue, Archie van der Ploeg, theatre plays “The curse of the Black fish” (Expo-98 Lisbon), “Hair”, winning Music Makers competition in 1999, film project “Namibia crossings-Hambana sound company”.

Since 2002 she is a soloist of the internationally recognised, RFI 2012 winner Namibian band Elemotho, touring all over Europe and Africa, headlining at WOMAD festival in the UK as one of the highlights.

From 2013 she lives in the UK, where she continues creating musical projects, as well as working on the new project in Namibia “Botselo” which will be launched soon.

Her repertoire includes the variety of classic, rock, and improvised styles, experimenting and exploring what flute can do.

 

During the russian invasion of Ukraine, Polina took a strong stand against the aggression, helping refugees, organising fundraising concerts, producing music together with Ukrainian artists.

"I believe in music! Music saves lives, music connects, music deletes borders and prejudices, music defeats hatred and aggression, music builds bridges and creates beauty and understanding, love and life! Join me and my friends for the good course. I met more than a hundred refugees fleeing the brutal war in Ukraine. They are all just normal people with their own stories of happiness and problems of normal day-to-day life, which abruptly stopped on the 24th of February. Many of them lost their family members, their houses, their sense of future, sense of life, faith in humanity… But when we got together playing music, singing and dancing their eyes shined with fire of life again and this is are one of the best moments of my life. Let’s stand with Ukraine fighting for freedom, independence and life!" -

Polina Loubnina

 

Thank you each and every one who joined us! Thank you for your donation! It's really very important and will help save lives!