Curtain falls on Fez World Sacred Music Festival.The 15th edition of the Fez Fez: see Fès, Morocco. weeklong week·long adj. Continuing through the week: a weeklong conference. Adj. 1. weeklong - lasting through a week; "her weeklong vacation" seven-day World Sacred Music Festival Wikipedia is not the place for advertisement or self-advertising. The World Sacred Music Festival (Festival des Musiques Sacrées du Monde) brings together performers from every corner of our planet for a week of artistic show in Fes Morocco's ancient holy city. closed with a musical show by Malian kora player Toumani Diabate and local musicians of the Aissawa and Hamadcha Sufi Brotherhoods. This year's edition, held under the banner of L'Arbre de la Vie (The Tree of Life), offered the public a broad range of diversified world music by outstanding artists and singers, including Paulette Wright (USA), Souad Massi (Algeria/France), the Zabit Nabizde Trio (Azerbaidjan), the Sufi chants of Deba, a women's group from Mayotte, Sami Yusuf Sami Yusuf is a a British singer-songwriter of Azerbaijani origin [1]& [2] He was born in Tehran, Iran to Azerbaijani parents[3] in July 1980 and raised in the United Kingdom. He is married to a German lady. (England) as well as Indian, French and Serbian dancers. The closing concert took place in the historic Bab Al Makina Square and was typically African, drawing on the centuries-old traditions that characterise Fez and Morocco Morocco, country, Africa Morocco (mərŏk`ō), officially Kingdom of Morocco, kingdom (2005 est. pop. 32,726,000), 171,834 sq mi (445,050 sq km), NW Africa. and their African backgrounds. The festival's programme also featured the Meetings of Fez as a space for exchange through conferences, in addition to several arts exhibitions, and the 8th edition of the Festival in the City. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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