Andalusian Music Festival of New York
Festival Preview in September 2008
- Let’s Celebrate Ramadan
- Let’s Celebrate Rosh Hashanah
Sung Poems of Love
Andalusian music is the musical and poetic traditions from the Medieval Andalusia that have been preserved and developed in North Africa by the descendants of Muslim and Jewish refugees after the Reconquista.
Andalusian music is performed in the form of vocal and instrumental suites.
Andalusian Music Festival features sung poems of love, pleasure, wines and nature by master musicians from Morocco and Tunisia on violin, viola, lute, rebab (small 2-stringed bass), and hand percussions.
Festival Calendar
September 24-28, 2008
New York, Boston, DC & Atlanta
Tangier Ensemble
February 6-22, 2009
New York, Boston, DC & Atlanta
Ahmed Zaitouni
Lotfi Bouchnak
Said Belcadi