Fes Festival of World Sacred Music - UPDATE

The full links list for the festival is at the bottom of this post, but here is the quick guide to the programme as it stands at the moment. It is subject to change.

Provisional Programme

Friday 2 June

08:30 p.m. Bab Makina

William Christie and Arts Florissants -bio- (France)
Rameau, Mondonville, Rigel, Mozart

Saturday 3 June

04:30 p.m. - Batha Museum

Hassan Haffar and Omar Sermini -bio- (Syria)

08:30 p.m. Bab Makina

First part : Keyvan Chemirani -bio- - Rhythm of Speech (Iran, India, Mali)

second part : Abida Parveen -bio- (Pakistan)

Sunday 4 June

04:30 p.m. - Batha Museum

Agrupación Música - Missa Criolla -bio- (Argentina)
17th & 18th century Music of Latin American Cathedrals

08:30 p.m. Bab Makina

Za Ondekoza -bio- - Taiko Drumming from Tokyo, (Japan)
« Running, beating, and dancing on the Earth »

Monday 5 June

04:30 p.m. - Batha Museum

Yungchen Lhamo -bio- (Tibet)

08:30 p.m. Bab Makina

El Llibre Vermell -bio- – Capella de Ministrers and Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana – (Spain)
Direction : Carles Magraner

Tuesday 6 June

04:30 p.m. - Batha Museum

Jordi Savall and Monserrat Figueras -bio- (Spain)
Ancient Music of the Cherifian Kingdom (Morocco) and the Kingdom of Spain : Creation

08:30 p.m. Bab Makina

Antonella Ruggiero -bio- (Italy)
Sacrarmonia with the Arké Quartett and Ivan Ceccarelli - percussions

Wednesday 7 June

Volubilis :
- Songs of the Brotherhoods of Morocco, - El Boussairi -bio- (Marocco)

Thursday 8 June

04:30 p.m. - Batha Museum

Black Voices -bio-–« Spiritual Journey » Sacred songs A capella (England)

08:30 p.m. Bab Makina

Enrico Macias and Lotfi Bouchnak -bio- (France and Tunisia)

Friday 9 June

04:30 p.m. - Batha Museum

Aygun Baylar -bio- (Aïzerbadjan)
– Mugam from Azerbaïdjan - Mystical songs

08:30 p.m. Bab Makina

Saber Rebaï -bio- (Tunisia)
Songs of Abou al Hassan ash-Shusturi

Saturday 10 June

04:30 p.m. - Batha Museum

Mystical songs of the Women of the Maghreb -bio- (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia)

08:30 p.m. Bab Makina

First part: Cantates pour la Mare Nostrum – Mômeludies : Children Chœur with Romain Didier and Enzo Enzo (France)

Salif Keita -bio- - « M’bemba » (Mali)

LINKS:

THE FULL PROGRAMME WITH DETAILS: THE VIEW FROM FEZ: The Fes Sacred Music Festival

Official Festival Site

THE SPIRIT OF FES

THE VIEW FROM FEZ: More on the Fes Sacred Music Festival

THE VIEW FROM FEZ: Festival Accommodation Shortage!

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