2023-10-10 13:37:08
The organizers of the Arab Music Festival announced the details of its new session, No. 32, during the period from October 20 to November 2, which will be held in three Egyptian governorates: Cairo, Alexandria, and Beheira.
The festival is witnessing a remarkable Gulf presence, as an “Omani Night” will be held for the first time, including the participation of the Royal Omani Symphony Orchestra and the First Royal Band of Folklore Music and Arts, in addition to distinguished participation by Gulf researchers, including the Bahraini Dr. Muhammad Ahmed Jamal, the Kuwaiti Dr. Faisal Khalifa, and the Omani. Dr. Nasser Mohammed Al-Naabi, Kuwaiti Dr. Ahlam Akbar, and Saudi Dr. Ahmed Al-Wasel.
A number of voices are participating in the festival, including the Egyptian artist Hamza Namira, the Egyptian artist Tamer Ashour, the Lebanese artist Adam, and the Egyptian artist Angham. The concert schedule also includes contributions from a number of great artists such as Syrian Asala Nasri, Ahmed Saad, Ali Al-Hajjar, and Medhat Saleh. Hani Shaker, Tunisian Omaima Talib, Moroccan Fouad Zabadi, Jordanian Nidaa Sharara, in addition to the great musician Omar Khairat.
During the activities of its new session, the festival will honor 14 Arab musical icons, including musician Omar Khairat, kola player Abdullah Helmy, musician Salah Al-Sharnoubi, the name of the author is Hussein Al-Sayyid, the name of the musician and artist Ahmed Al-Hajjar, the Moroccan artist Fouad Zabadi, the Omani artist Khalid bin Hamad Al-Busaidi, and the musician Iraqi Wissam Khassaf, and Saudi author and producer Mamdouh Saif.
The 32nd session includes exceptional activities on the occasion of the centenary of the Institute of Arab Music, as a special celebration will be organized for the institute on October 21, while the opening ceremony will be dedicated to the celebration of the centenary of the “people’s artist” Sayed Darwish, accompanied by violinist Ahmed Muhammad Darwish Al-Bahr.
Musician Hani Farhat, head of the Arab Music Festival, told Asharq Al-Awsat: “We are working amid very difficult circumstances, and we thank God that the new session came out in the best possible way with the help of all those in charge of the festival, and also with the contributions and approvals of the artists participating in the new session, as we will launch Only hours following the end of the El Gouna Festival, we therefore preferred to start the festival with the activities of the Arab Music Conference, with the singing events starting on October 24th.”
Regarding the choice of “Omani Night” to decorate the festival’s activities, he stressed: “There is a system that we are trying to establish from that session and that it will continue during the coming sessions, which is celebrating the Arab countries by holding singing nights for them, and during that session we tried to increase them; But due to the circumstances, we preferred to start in the Sultanate of Oman, rather than present the rest of the countries during the upcoming sessions, especially since Oman has a wonderful musical experience.”
Regarding the reason for his leadership of approximately five concerts during the festival, Farhat said: “I was hoping not to participate in the festival so that I might devote myself to seeing my administrative experience fully, but there are singers who stipulated not to participate in the festival except for me to lead their concerts, including Asala Nasri and Ahmed Saad, and as for Tamer Ashour put me in charge of his concert in exchange for participating for the first time in the festival, and Angham will not sing without me.”
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