FES FESTIVAL OF WORLD SACRED MUSIC 2009

FES FESTIVAL OF WORLD SACRED MUSIC
29 May - 6 June 2009
Provisional Programme

Friday 29 May Bab Makina 20h30 (A seats €56; B seats €37)
Marcel Khalifé with the Al Mayadin Orchestra, with Oumeima Al

Khalil and Yolla Keryakos (Lebanon/Morocco/Greece)
Tribute to Mahmoud Darwich
Or
José Carreras (Spain)

Sacred Songs

Saturday 30 May Batha Museum 16h30 (€14)
Shantala Shivalingapa (India)
Kuchipudi Dance
Bab Makina 20h30 (A seats €47; B seats €28)
Marwa Wright (USA)
Gospel

Sunday 31 May Batha Museum 16h30 (€14)
Mohammad Motamedi (Iran)
Songs: The Art of Radif
Bab Makina 20h30 (A seats €37; B seats €19)
1st part: The Whirling Dervishes of Konya (Turkey)
From Eternity to Modernity
2nd part: Ziya Azazi (Turkey)
Icons: Contemporary Dervish Dance

Monday 1 June Batha Museum 16h30 (€9)
Yuval Ron with Najwa Gibran (USA)
Music in the Judeo-Arab Tradition
Bab Makina 20h30 (A seats €28; B seats €14)
Didier Lockwood (France) with his String Sextet,

with IhsanR'Miki and the Zaman al Wasl Ensemble (Morocco)
Strings & Soul a creation by Didier Lockwood
(arrangements: R. Regragui, Morocco)

Tuesday 2 June Batha Museum 16h30 (€9)
Women of Mayotte (Mayotte)
Deba de Hamjago
Bab Makina 20h30 (A seats €28; B seats €14)
Souad Massi (France/Algeria)

Wednesday 3 June
Batha Museum 16h30 (€9)
I Muvrini (France)
Sacred and popular songs from Corsica
Bab Makina 20h30 (A seats €28; B seats €14)
Keyvan Chemirani (musical director) with Samira Kadiri, Esperanza
Fernandez & Giorgis Xyloyris (Iran/Morocco/Spain/Greece)
Melos - Songs of the Mediterranean

Thursday 4 June Batha Museum 16h30 (€9)
Divna (Serbia)
Orthodox Sacred Songs
Bab Makina 20h30 (A seats €28; B seats €14)
1st part: Sistine Chapel Choir (Vatican)
A capella songs: the sacred Christian tradition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
2nd part: Abed Azrié with the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra & the
Choir of the Institut Spérieur de Musique de Damas (France/Syria)

Evangile selon St Jean

Friday 5 June Batha Museum 16h30 (€9)
Gabriel Garrido and the Elyma Ensemble (Switzerland)
Baroque Music of Monteverdi
Bab Makina 20h30 (A seats €56; B seats €37)
Sami Yussuf (United Kingdom)
Spiritual Songs of the Arab World

Saturday 6 June Batha Museum 16h30 (€14)
Razbar Ensemle and The Ahl e Haqq Brotherhoods
Mystical songs of Iranian Kurdistan
Bab Makina 20h30 (A seats €47; B seats €28)
Loreena McKennit (Canada)
The Book of Secrets

Festival Pass in A category seats, including access to all concerts €260
Pass for the Festival and the Colloquium €310
Pass for the Colloquium only €50

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