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14th Annual World Sacred Music Festival June 6th - 14th 2008 Fez, Morocco
Friday, June 6th Bab Makina 8:30 pm Jessye Norman (USA),with the Regional Lyric Orchestra Avignon Province (France). Conducting: Rachael Worby (USA) Saturday, June 7th Batha Museum 4:30 pm Ghada Shbéïr (Lebanon) Songs of the Eastern Christian Churches Bab Makina 8:30 pm "Night of African-American and Sufi songs " Spiritual / Hymns / Qawwali / Gospel Faiz Ali Faiz (Pakistan) ensemble with and Bernice Johnson Reagon and the Sacred Sound Ensemble (USA) Sunday, June 8th Batha Museum 4:30 pm Mari Boine (Norway) - Sacred Songs of Sami Scandinavian Far North Bab El Makina 8:30 pm "Christian and Muslim Homage to Mary" Ai Kindi ensemble with Sheikh Hamza Shakour, the Munshid of the Great Umayyad Mosque and the Choir of Greece - Dir. JJ Weiss (Syria - Greece - France) Monday, June 9th Batha Museum 4:30 pm Thanh Huong (Vietnam): Traditional and sacred songs Bab Makina 8:30 pm Company Belen Maya (Spain) "Dibujos" Flamenco dance Tuesday, June 10th Batha Museum 4:30 pm Tartit Women's Ensemble (Mali) folk and sacred songs of the Tuareg Bab MaKina 8:30 pm "Panti Pusaka Budaya" Ensemble: Sacred Traditional Dances of Bali / Indonesia Wednesday, June 11th Batha Museum 4:30 pm Ysaÿe Quartet (France): the Last 7 Words of Christ (J. Haydn) / Text: Michel Serres – Narrator: Michael Lonsdale Thursday, June 12th Batha Museum 4:30 pm The Roza Enflorese (Belgium) - Sephardic sacred and traditional songs Bab Makina 8:30 pm Abdelwahab Doukali (Morocco) Friday, June 13th Batha Museum 4:30 pm Cantus Colln (Germany): Around JS Bach / Spiritual Paths (Buxtehude - J. Rosenmüller - JS Bach) - Dir Konrad Junghanel Bab Makina 8:30 pm Mohamed Abdou (Saudi Arabia) Saturday, June 14 Batha Museum 4:30 pm Madhup Mudghal (India): The Bakhti devotional songs Bab Makina 8:30 pm Ismael Lô (Senegal) with the Brotherhood Hamadcha of Fez (Morocco) "From Dakar to Fez: from heart to soul" Colloquium Les Reencounters de Fez:a soul for globalization <<Spirit of Fez>> Morings from June 3rd to June 6th 2008 The changes happen by those, men and women, who initiate them. Their actions are portrayed, such as rays of light, in the everyday life. They are, these men and women, famous or little known, whom we wishe to invite this year for their testimony. Their examples and achievements are like traces of light. They can act in the field of spirituality, art, economy, or politics. Their actions and spirit in which these are accomplished can produce out of this sources of inspiration or examples, a path to follow. Persomnalities from East and west, of diverse cultures and faiths, will itllustrate by their personal itineraries such an aproach and will participate in the Encounters of Fez that will spread for five mornings. Artistic Exhibitions and films 4:00 pm Film Screening "Ravi Shankar Between two worlds" of Mark Kidel Presented by the author (France) “Where is the house of my friend” presented by Abbas Kiarostami (Iran). Exhibition Paintings and Photos: “Time; the soul mirror” of Roland and Sabrina Michaud. Presented by the author. All the evening concerts are at Bab Makina (14th century King'spalace reception court). The afternoon concerts are in the sumptuous Moorish Palace of Dar Bat'ha, except the H'madcha Sufi drummers of Fez, concert will take place in the Roman ruins of Volubilis with Arc of Triumph (300 B.C.) as a backdrop. Note Programs, artists, and dates subject to modification. To sign up click here or call toll-free at 877-788-ROCK Copyright @ Adventures in Rock, Inc. January 2008