Thursday, May 15, 2008

Fes Festival of World Sacred Music




Here is the full programme for the upcoming Fez Festival.

The 14th Fes Festival of World Sacred Music
6 to 15 June 2008

Provisional Programme

Friday 6 June Opening Night

Bab Makina 20:30 (A seats €55; B seats €37)

Jessye Norman (USA), with the Regional Lyric Orchestra Avignon Provence (France). Conducting: Rachael Worby (USA)

Saturday 7 June

Batha Museum 16:30 (all seats €14)

Ghada Shbéïr (Lebanon) Songs of the Eastern Christian Churches

Bab Makina 20:30 (A seats €55; B seats €28)

Night of Sacred African American and Sufi Songs Night

Spirituals/Hymns/Qawwali/Gospel

Faiz Ali Faiz and his Ensemble (Pakistan) and Bernice Johnson Reagon and the Sacred Sound Ensemble (USA)

Sunday 8 June

Batha Museum 16:30 (all seats €14)

Mari Boine (Norway) Sacred Songs of Scandinavian Far North

Bab Makina 20:30 (A seats: €46; B seats €28)

Al Kindi ensemble with Sheikh Hamza Shakour, the Munshid of the Great Umayyad Mosque of Damascus and the Byzantin Tropos Choir of Athens - Dir. JJ Weiss (Syria/Greece)

Stabat Mater Dolorosa - Christian and Muslim Homage to Mary

Monday 9 June

Batha Museum 16:30 (all seats €9)

Huong Thanh (Vietnam) Traditional and sacred songs

Bab Makina 20:30 (A seats €46; B seats €28)

Belen Maya Company (Spain) Flamenco dance and song

Tuesday 10 June

Batha Museum 16:30 (all seats €9)

Tartit Women's Ensemble (Mali) Folk and sacred songs of the Tuareg

Bab Makina 20:30 (A seats €46; B seats €28)

Panti Pusaka Budaya Ensemble Sacred Traditional Dance of Bali / Indonesia

Wednesday 11 June

Batha Museum 16:30 (all seats €9)

Ysaÿe Quartet (France) The Seven Last Words of Christ (J. Haydn) Text: Michel Serres – Narrator: Michael Lonsdale

Bab Makina 20:30 (A seats €28 ; B seats €14 )

Fadhel Jaziri (Tunisia) Hadhra: The Spiritual Message of Tunisia

Thursday 12 June

Batha Museum 16:30 (all seats €9)

The Roza Enflorese (Belgium) Sephardic sacred and traditional songs

Bab Makina 20:30 (A seats €28; B seats €14)

Abdelwahab Doukali (Morocco) with Rachid Regragui's Oriental Orchestra Spiritual Dialogue between Souls

Friday 13 June

Batha Museum 16:30 (all seats €9)

Cantus Colln (Germany) Around JS Bach/Spiritual Paths (Buxtehude - J. Rosenmüller - JS Bach) Director: Konrad Junghanel

Bab Makina 20:30 (A seats €55; B seats €37)

Majda El Roumi (Lebanon) Call for Peace from the Star of Peace

Saturday 14 June

Batha Museum 16:30 (all seats €14)

Madhup Mudghal (India) Bakhti devotional songs

Bab Makina 20:30 (A seats €46; B seats €28)

Ismael Lô (Senegal) with the Brotherhood Hamadcha of Fez (Morocco) From Dakar to Fez: from heart to soul

Sunday 15 June

Bab Makina 20:30 (A seats €55 ; B seats €28 )

Mohamed Abdou (Saudi Arabia) with Abderahim Mountassir's Orchestra

Pass for all concerts: €260 (includes A seats at Bab Makina)

Pass for concerts and Fez Encounters: €310

Pass for Fez Encounters only: €50 (or €10 per session)


ADDITIONAL EVENTS

FREE CONCERTS:

Saturday 7 June:

18:30 at Bab Boujloud: Haja Hamdaoudia
20:00 at Ait Skato: 1st part: Shakba; 2nd part: Said Mosker
23:00 at Dar Tazi: Hamadcha Sufi Brotherhood (Fez)

Sunday 8 June:

18:30 at Bab Boujloud: Said Mosker
20:00 at Ait Skato: 1st part: Hel Lemkane; 2nd part: Haja Hamdaoudia
23:00 at Dar Tazi: Qawwali with Faiz Ali Faiz (Pakistan)

Monday 9 June:

18:30 at Bab Boujloud: Fes City Clan
20:00 at Ait Skato: Tagada
23:00 at Dar Tazi: Tijania Sufi Brotherhood (Laayoune)

Tuesday 10 June:

18:30 at Bab Boujloud: Tagada
20:00 at Ait Skato: Dar Dmana
23:00 at Dar Tazi: Harraqïa Sufi Brotherhood (Taza)

Wednesday 11 June:

18:30 at Bab Boujloud: Dar Dmana
20:00 at Ait Skato: Saida Charaf
23:00 at Dar Tazi: Tartit Women's Ensemble

Thursday 12 June:

18:30 at Bab Boujloud: Hadhra (Tunisia) directed by Fadhel Jaziri
20:00 at Ain Skato: Fes City Clan
23:00 at Dar Tazi: Darkaouiya Sufi Brotherhood (Laarache)

Friday 13 June:

18:30 at Bab Boujloud: Fnaïre
20:00 at Ait Skato: 1st part: Hamid el Mardi; 2nd part: Daoudia
23:00 at Dar Tazi: Sidi Bel Abass Sufi Brotherhood (Marrakech)

Saturday 14 June:

18:30 at Bab Boujloud: Nass El Ghiwane
20:00 at Ait Skato: 1st part: Fnaïre; 2nd part: Hoba Hoba Spirit

23:00 at Dar Tazi: Aïssawa Sufi Brotherhood (Fez)

Sunday 15 June:

18:30 at Bab Boujloud: Hoba Hoba Spirit
20:00 at Ait Skato: Ismael Lô (Senegal) with the Hamadcha Sufi Brotherhood (Fez)

EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS:

Dar Tazi: Photography: Reza 'Fire Dance'

Place Sofia: Photography: Christian Schuytiser 'Earthen Mosques of Mali'

Batha Museum: Photography: Abbas 'Abraham Children'

Jnan Palace: 18:00 Monday 9 June Documentary film by Abraham Segal 'Politics and God'

Palais Jamaï Hotel: 18:00 on Thursday 12 June: Talk by Michael Barry on the Image of Averroès in Medieval and Renaissance Art

FES ENCOUNTERS COLLOQUIUM

9:00 to 12:30 at the Batha Museum

Saturday 7 June: Representation of the Sacred

Sunday 8 June: Music and the Sacred

Monday 9 June: The Sacred, Custom and Law

Tuesday 10 June: The Sacred and the Unconscious

Wednesday 11 June: Transmission and the Sacred

FRINGE EVENTS AT THE FRENCH INSTITUTE'S DAR BATHA AT 22:00

Monday 9 June: Atfal Dar Damana : children's dance and song

Tuesday 10 June: Shahinaz: Jewish, Christian and Islamic music of the Mediterranean

Wednesday 11 June: Assawyat: women of the Aïssawa Sufi Brotherhood

Thursday 12 June: Hamadcha Sufi Brotherhood, explained by Frédéric Calmès


WALKING TOURS

Palaces and Homes (Friday and Sunday)

Starts at 10:00 at Dar Tazi and covers Dar Tazi, Ba Mohamed, Ecole Mokri and Palais Mokri (finishes at Palais Mokri)

Circuit of Knowledge (Saturday and Sunday)

Starts at 10:00 on Saturday and 16:00 on Sunday

Starts at the Attarine Medersa and covers the Bouanania and Moulay Driss (finishes at Moulay Driss Highschool)

CHILDREN'S EVENTS at 14:30 to 18:00 Monday to Saturday

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