14th World Sacred Music Festival

Program & Tour - 2008

Concert Program

Confirmed Program
June 6 to June 14, 2008
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The 14th annual
Fes Festival of World Sacred Music

6 – 14 June 2008

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 8H30 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 »
6th edition
« Spirit of Fez »

Morings from June 3 to June 6, 2007

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.Films: "Ravi Shankar Between two worlds" of Mark Kidel Presented by the author (France)
Where is the house of my friend?  Abbas Kiriostami (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.

 
 

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