Fes Sacred Music Festival Program - 19th Edition Juin 2013

A poetic, musical and choreographic creation of Andalucia, from Moorish Fez to Granada with great artists of Moorish tradition, Berber and the world of Flamenco

Featuring:
Andres Marin
Carmen Linares
Amina Alaoui

Nomadic Voices – Sardinia – Mongolia 
Cuncurdu Tenor of Orosei
Chants of Tsogterei Ganzorig of Mangolia

In the purity of nature still scarce and pastoral, the megalithic mountain the Sardinian beauty meets the vast steppes of Mongolia through the tenor polyphonies and the collective Koomi chants. 

Liturgy meets country pastoral in a marriage of sacred and profane voices echoed in these Sardinian Atai Mountains and in the vast Gobi desert.   Voices that are musical metaphors of high altitudes and great open of a desert.

Istanbul – the Golden Gate – Greece / Turkey
Kyriakos Kalaitzidis Choir – Orthodox Byzantin Saint John of Damas
The Mevlevi Whirling Derviches directed by Necip Gulses
Ancient metropolis created by ancient Greeks called Eis-tein-polis (the City) to become Istanbul today. A land mark between east and west favors a place for people and religions to meet.  Mirroring Andalucia where coexistence was a way of life, Istanbul is also where Orthodox Christianity, Islam and Ladino Judaism are practiced side by side in harmony. 

Only in Fez the musical treasures of Istanbul find a suitable setting to feel at home.   

Coumbane Mint Ely Warakane // Mauritanie
The Art of chants from the Sahara desert

One day,  A sufi master Lal Shabbaz Qalander while wandering in the desert with his servant Bhaa Din in a wintery cold night wanted to make a fire.  The servant asked him to transform himself into Falcon and fly to hell to get some fire.  The master flew and came back with nothing: “there is no fire in hell” said the master “those who go there bring their own fire and their own sufferance with them from this world”. 

The Mauritanian art is replete of knowledge and wisdom.  It is a convergence of An Arabo Berber and West African traditions. 

Paco da Lucia // Espagne
A legend of Flamenco Guitar
Antonio Sanchez, Second guitar
Antonio Serrano, Keyboard
Alain Perez, bass
Piranha  percussions
Duquende, Chant
David de Jacoba, Chant
Farruco, danse

Paco de Lucia is one of the best Flamenco guitar player today and one of the best guitar players in the world.  He has given the Flamenco style a universal dimension.   

Abir Nehme –  Aramic Chants,  Syriac  and byzantins  - Liban

Abir Nhem excels in the art of singing religious repertoires of Maronite origins. 

Aicha Redouane and the Berber Tradition form the Atlas Mountains France –
Morocco

“Aman” means Water in Berber dialects. Water is the source of life is so precious, a grace, an immense
gift that should be respected and protected. Aicha Redouane takes us back to the peaks of her native
mountains where the sound of a stream sings the roaring of a cascade, where men and women gather
around a well to sing singing the purity and joy filling up their jars of pure water.

El Gusto – Algeria
“ the Luth is a king who advance without haste, followed by his soldiers who carefully watchhim” Ibn
Zaydoun.

Moorish Music from Arabo-Judaic tradition in the heart of the Kasbah of Algiers springs this style of
Algerian music celebrating life at the same time sacred. A repertoire is chosen especially for this festival.

Amina Alaoui (Arco Iris)
Saïfallah Ben Abderrazak, violonist
Sofiane Negra, oud

José Luis Montón, guitar
Eduardi Miranda, mandoline
Idriss Agnel, guitar and percussions

Amina Alaoui is the diva of Andalusian Arabo Moorish music of medieval time, Flamenco, and Fado,
Poems in Arabic Portugese, Spanish, Hebreu and Persian.

Sacred chants from the Kingdom of Buthan featuring:
Jigme Drukpa, Pema Samdrup and Namkha Lhamo with the collaboration of the Ministry of Home and
Cultural Affairs Kingdom of Buthan

Buthan sacred music is featured for the first time in the festival of Fez. Poems from the Tibetan Poet
Milarepa (1040 – 1123 ad)

Indian Night of sacred chants

XVIII-21 Baroque music with Nomadic indian Raga music by Pandit Shyam Sundar Goswami - France-
Inde

Jean-Christophe Frisch, Flutist and artistic director of the ensemble XVIII-21 Le Baroque
Singer Cyrille Gerstenhaber, reconstituantes le Chandernagor du XVIII. Master Pandit Shyam will
feature the dream of Raga bengali khyal.

Ana Moura - Portugal

The Fado of Lisbon
Ancient Portuguese spiritual

Axivil Aljamía – Spain
Felipe Sánchez Mascuñano, luth, Music and conducting
Israel Paz, cantor flamenco
Javier Aguirre, viola
Wafir S. Gibril, percussions and Oud
Javier Paxariño, wind instruments
Luis Martinez, zanfona (vielle
David Mayoral, percussions
« Mudéjar Parfum : un évocation of Muslim communities music, Mudejar are Muslims who stayed in
Spain till the XVII° Century »

Assala Nasri – Syrie

Born in Damascus, Assla Nasri from her first album (Ouala Tssadak) has become a celebrity due to her
talent and authenticity to the real Arab music.

Lady Smith / Chicago Gospel (USA – South Africa

Leanne Faine & Favor – Chicago – USA
Ladysmith Red Lions – Ladysmith – South Africa
Bill Dickens and Ladysmith Chicago Gospel Experience band
Butterscotch, beatbox

The presence of the exceptional young Californian diva of Beat box will make it a special night.