fes festival of world sacred music 2008

Fes Festival of World Sacred Music 2008

It's late. It's very late. But at last there's a holding page at the

Festival's website and we're promised more news shortly.

Meanwhile, the only place to see the Festival programme is at Fez

Riads and, of course, right here on your favourite Fez blog (see

below). It certainly looks like a great programme!

Friday 6 June

Bab Makina 20:30

Jessye Norman (USA), with the Regional Lyric Orchestra Avignon

Provence (France). Conducting: Rachael Worby (USA)

Saturday 7 June

Batha Museum 16:30

Ghada Shb��r (Lebanon) Songs of the Eastern Christian Churches

Bab Makina 20:30

Sacred African American and Sufi Songs Night

Spiritual/Hymns/Qawwali/Gospel

Faiz Ali Faiz (Pakistan) ensemble with and Bernice Johnson Reagon and

the Sacred Sound

Ensemble (USA)

Sunday 8 June

Batha Museum 16:30

Mari Boine (Norway) Sacred Songs of Sami of the Scandinavian Far North

Bab Makina 20:30

Al Kindi ensemble with Sheikh Hamza Shakour, the Munshid of the Great

Umayyad Mosque and

the Choir of Greece - Dir. JJ Weiss (Syria/Greece/France)

Stabat Mater Dolorosa: Christian and Muslim Homage to Mary

Monday 9 June

Batha Museum 16:30

Thanh Huong (Vietnam) Traditional and sacred songs

Bab Makina 20:30

Belen Maya Company (Spain) Dibujos Flamenco dance

Tuesday 10 June

Batha Museum 16:30

Tartit Women's Ensemble (Mali) Folk and sacred songs of the Tuareg

Bab Makina 20:30

Panti Pusaka Budaya Ensemble Sacred Traditional Dances of

Bali/Indonesia

Wednesday 11 June

Batha Museum 16:30

Ysa�e Quartet (France) The Seven Last Words of Christ (J. Haydn)

Text: Michel Serres, Narrator: Michael Lonsdale

Thursday 12 June

Batha Museum 16:30

The Roza Enflorese (Belgium) Sephardic sacred and traditional songs

Bab Makina 20:30

Abdelwahab Doukali (Morocco)

Friday 13 June

Batha Museum 16:30

Cantus Colln (Germany): Around JS Bach/Spiritual Paths (Buxtehude - J.

Rosenm�ller - JS Bach), Director: Konrad Junghanel

Bab Makina 20:30

Mohamed Abdou (Saudi Arabia)

Saturday 14 June

Batha Museum 16:30

Madhup Mudghal (India): Bakhti devotional songs

Bab Makina 20:30