Fez Festival of World Sacred Music, Morocco
Europe’s best summer festivals for 2014
Europe’s best summer festivals for 2014
Ok, ok, we know Morocco isn’t in Europe, but we don’t want you to miss out on this one since it really is one heck of a music fest. ‘Sacred’ is a loose description of the music on the bill at this nine-day event, as it’s definitely not just for the religious. Instead it’s a massive feel-good get-together, featuring shows from all sorts of traditions. French gypsy songs, Chicago blues and nightly Moroccan Sufi performances are all on the bill this year, as is a Youssou N’Dour tribute to Nelson Mandela. You can’t top the setting either – concerts are held at atmospheric sites throughout the city, such as the 14th century Bab Al Makina, medina riads and the Batha Museum’s gardens.
When: 13-21 June 2014
Getting there: Fez Airport is about 15km away from the cit centre – take a taxi or grab a shuttle bus into town.
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Fez Festival of World Sacred Music, Morocco
Program
Friday, June 13
Bab Al Makina – 09:00pm :
Opening concert: specially commissioned by the Spirit of Fes Foundation
Conference of the birds: Journey of Cultures
Concept and Artistic Direction: Faouzi Skali and Layla Benmoussa
Director: Thierry Poquet
Musical composition: Arash Sarkechik
Saturday, June 14
Batha Museum 09:00 am – noon
Fes Forum – Theme: Our era of transition and challenge: Culture and identity
Round Table:Mandela’s spiritual legacies: Lessons for our era
Sacred Music – Batha Museum 04:00 pm
Rokia Traoré – Mali
Beautiful Africa
Sacred Music – Bab al Makina 09:00 pm
Roberto Alagna – France
Mediterraneo
Sunday, June 15
Batha Museum 09:00 am – noon
Fes Forum – Theme: Our era of transition and challenge
Round Table: culture and identitySocial harmony in plural, multicultural societies: what have we learned?
Sacred Music – Batha Museum – 04:00 pm
Luzmila Carpio – Bolivia
Sacred Music – Bab Al Makina – 09:00 pm :
Youssou N’Dour & Johnny Clegg
Tribute to Nelson Mandela
Monday, June 16
Batha Museum 09:00 am – noon
Fes Forum – Theme: Our era of transition and challenge: culture and identity
Round Table: Morocco: managing and savoring diversity – an ideal, a model, a challenge
Sacred Music: Batha Museum – 04:00 pm
Bardic Divas – women poets of Central Asia
Night in the Medina I: Dar Adiyel – 08:00 pm & 10:00 pm
Breezes of the Atlas & the Jews’s harp of China – China/Morocco
Wang-Li and the Amazigh Poets
Night in the Medina I: Dar Mokri – 08:00 pm & 10:00 pm
The Choir of Saint Ephraim – Hungary
Directed by Tamás Bubnó
Night in the Medina I: Dar Batha – 08:00 pm & 10:00 pm
Majlis Trio – France
Night in the Medina I: Batha Museum – 09:00 pm
Altan Ensemble – Ireland
Tuesday, June 17
Batha Museum 09:00 am – noon
Fes Forum – Theme: Our era of transition and challenge: culture and identityRound Table: What would Mandela counsel today to achieve peace in the Middle East?
Sacred Music: Batha Museum – 04:00 pm
Jordi Savall
Orient – Occident
Night in the Medina II: Dar Adiyel – 08h00 pm
The canticle of the birds – a musical lecture by Leili Anvar – France & Iran
Night in the Medina II: Dar Adiyel – 10h00 pm
Marifat
Group Leader: Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal , Qawali of Pakistan
Night in the Medina II: Dar Mokri – 08h00 pm and 10:00 pm
Khalil Abu Nicola – Palestine
Night in the Medina II: Batha Museum -09:00 pm
Tomatito Sextet – Spain
with the exceptional participation of Omar Bouzmaazought – Morocco
Wednesday, June 1
Batha Museum 09:00 am – noon
Fes Forum – Theme: Our era of transition and challenge: culture and identity
Round Table : New ethical and spiritual challenges for modern capitalism
Night in the Medina III: Dar Adiyel – 08:00 pm and 10:00 pm
The art of Melhoun music from Fez and Meknes – Morocco
Night in the Medina III: Dar Mokri – 08:00 pm and 10:00 pm
Mor Karbasi – Sacred Ladino Song
Night in the Medina III: Batha Museum: 09:00 pm
Zakir Hussain, tabla – India
Thursday, June 19
Sacred Music: Batha Museum – 04:00 pm
Sacred songs of the Gypsies of Provence – France
Sacred Music: Bab Al Makina – 09:00 pm
Judéo-arabe Night with Francoise Atlan & Lior El Maleh
Friday, June 20
Sacred Music: Batha Museum – 04:00 pm
Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar – India
Sacred Music: Bab al Makina : 09:00 pm
Kadim Al Sahir – Iraq
Saturday, June 21
Sacred Music: Batha Museum – 04:00 pm
Raza Khan & Coumbane Mint Ely Warakane – India/Mauritania
Poetry of the Sands and Words of the Nomads
Sacred Music: Bab Al Makina – 09:00 pm
Buddy Guy Legend & Hot8 brass band From Chicago blues to New Orleans jazz – USA
