Arabic-L:GEN:Arabesque Festival

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Date: 18 Feb 2009
From:David Wilmsen <david.wilmsen at gmail.com>
Subject:Arabesque Festival

I enthusiastically encourage anyone who happens to be in DC on 8 March  
to attend Fathy Salama's concert at the Kennedy Centre on 8 March. His  
music blends jazz and eastern elements, which is a difficult thing to  
accomplish, but accomplish it he does with stunning success. He is  
known amongst western jazz musicians and has played with many of them.  
The jazz elements in the music appear especially when Fathy solos,  
which he doesn't always do; but when he does, his piano reminds me of  
Cecil Taylor in his earlier, more lyrical phase. His band Sharkiat  
encompasses highly proficient mucisians in their own right, amongst  
whom it would be hard for me to name a favourite, but Ayman Sidky's  
performances on traps (which he sometimes plays with his bare hands)  
are an inspiration to behold, and Salah El Artist's accordian sends me  
into bliss!

If you are there, don't miss it!  (Or, as they say, "Be Square")

-- 
David Wilmsen, PhD, Arabic language and linguistics
Visiting Associate Professor of Arabic
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
American University of Beirut

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