FES FESTIVAL OF WORLD SACRED MUSIC 2007

Here is the English translation of the programme.

Friday 1 June
20h30 BAB MAKINA
Barbara Hendricks (USA)
With the Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble (Sweden)
Stabat Mater by Pergolèse, and sacred songs

Saturday 2 June
16h30 BATHA MUSEUM
Parissa and the Ensemble Dastan (Iran)
Sufi poems of Jalaludin Rumi
Gol-e Behesht (Les Roses du Paradis)

20h30 BAB MAKINA
Johnny Clegg (South Africa) ‘The White Zulu’
One Life

Sunday 3 June
04h45 MERINIDES QUARRY
Bartabas with his horse Le Caravage, Sufi musicians Nezih Uzel and Kudsi Erguner (France)
Sunrise

16h30 BATHA MUSEUM
Coro Gregoriano de Lisboa (Portugal)
The source of Gregorian Chant

20h30 BAB MAKINA
Tania Maria (Brazil)
Memories born of cries for liberty, forbidden pride and an ancient culture

Monday 4 June
16h00 BATHA MUSEUM
Claire Zalamansky (France)
Sephardic Songs of Spain

20h30 BAB MAKINA
Ayin-i Djem, Profound Ceremony of the Whirling Dervishes (Turkey)
directed by Kudsi Erguner, with the Kadiria and Mawlawiya Brotherhoods
with dhikr, sama’a and calls of the muezzin, in memory of Jalaludin Rumi
Halakat Jalaludin Rumi

Tuesday 5 June
16h30 BATHA MUSEUM
Aïcha Mint Chighaly (Mauritania)
Songs of Praise

20h30 BAB MAKINA
Akhtar Sharif Arup Vâle Qawwâls (Pakistan)
The official Qawwâl of the patron saint of the City of Lahore

Wednesday 6 June
04h45at the MERINIDES QUARRY
Bartabas with his horse Le Caravage, Sufi musicians Nezih Uzel and Kudsi Erguner (France)
Sunrise

20h30 BAB MAKINA
Sonia Mbarek, Beihdja Rahal, Fadwa El Malki
Arab-Andalous Songs of the Maghreb


Thursday 7 June
16h30 BATHA MUSEUM
Piñana Brothers and Cuban string quartet (Spain/Cuba)
Missa Flamenca Murciana

20h30 BAB MAKINA
Angélique Kidjo (Benin)
African Songs of Love and Hope

Friday 8 June
16h30 BATHA MUSEUM
Vasumathi Badrinathan (India)
Carnatic songs.

20h30 BAB MAKINA
Jahida Wahib (Lebanon) and Elias Karam (Syria)
Love, the Sacred and Profane

Saturday 9 June
16h30 BATHA MUSEUM
Waed Bouhassoun (Syria)
Songs of Jalaludin Rumi
Nâdira Pirmatova (Uzbekistan)
The voice of Shash-Maqam

20h30 BAB MAKINA
London Community Gospel Choir, United Kingdom
The magic of Gospel



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