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Montreal arab festival

SamirCanada - 10-21-2005 at 08:27 AM

Here is the programe for this years Arab festival of montreal.
With names like Shadi Jameel, Simon Shaheen, Nasser Shamma with al oyoun. Its going to be the bomb.

http://www.festivalarabe.com/fma/catalog.jsp?sid=149303719920325972...

Jameel - 10-21-2005 at 08:57 AM

Wow, Samir. I don't speak French, but that is one heck of a line up. Let us know how it is.

ktb711 - 10-21-2005 at 09:33 AM

That's right! Wow! But "wow" not so much for the line up, but rather because Montreal is an awesome city. There always seems to be something good going on there.

Samir, I used to live in Binghamton, NY (upstate) and can say that the only thing I enjoyed about living there was that Montreal was relatively close by. I would go every year to the Jazz festival in July (at other times just for kicks and other random concerts). The only other city that comes close to the feel of Montreal in terms of music festivals, in my opinion, is--believe it or not--Bloomington, Indiana!

I wish I could check some of the events with you. Have fun.

ktb

SamirCanada - 10-21-2005 at 09:44 AM

Oh... Adel salameh is also performing!
there are soo many artists... but fo course I wont be able to attend to all of them. I even have to chose between Simon and Nasser since there on the same nites but different locations.
Decisions decisions...

Jameel - 10-21-2005 at 10:25 AM

you poor guy, I really feel sorry for you. ;)

ktb711 - 10-21-2005 at 10:29 AM

That is a truly not-to-be-missed line-up if I ever saw one.

mavrothis - 10-22-2005 at 11:15 AM

Wow, that's amazing. I'm tempted to make the trip.

KTB, did you go to school in Bloomington? I have a lot of friends here in NYC from that are amazing musicians. One of them is Megan Weeder (violin).
They talk about how it's the perfect environment for a musician, and it really does sound great.

Anyway, thanks Samir for the link!

Take care,

mav

SamirCanada - 10-22-2005 at 11:20 AM

Bro my house is open to you anytime you want Reh.
Let me know if you want to come down.
Think about it. Just drop me a mail.
yassou.

ktb711 - 10-22-2005 at 02:35 PM

Hey Mav,

I was teaching at IU. Yeah, I know Megan Weeder from hanging out at a local coffee house called Soma and seeing her in Tall Steve's annual party after the Lotus Festivals. She play's baglama, too--but you probably already know that. Well, whatever your friends are telling you about the music scene in Bloomington, it is all true and then some. It IS the perfect place for musicians, and--as a result--for music lovers. Great place to cool out; great place to meet a lot of cool people. It is, perhaps, the smallest city in the midwest in which it is socially unacceptable to be intolerant on any level. Bigots are rare, and THAT'S RARE. Hats off to Bloomington!

ktb

SamirCanada - 10-24-2005 at 08:57 AM

I was reading.. something about the shadi jameel's performance.
Its called Tarab extreme... wich I couldnt bring myself to understand untill I noticed something. It says the audience should expect a performance of about 6 to 8 hours !!!! I guess you really get caught up in the moment of the Tarab with such a long performance. He's performing with the classical ensemble of Halepo wich are incredible musicians. I cant attend to it. Since Iam going to see shamma and his band. But these guys really earn there money.

palestine48 - 10-24-2005 at 07:04 PM

I cant find an english translation, I am not fortunante enough to speak french. Sure would help with the chicks if I did.

Elie Riachi - 10-24-2005 at 08:33 PM

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Originally posted by palestine48
I cant find an english translation, I am not fortunante enough to speak french. Sure would help with the chicks if I did.


Je nes speek le france either... But I have the Google toolbar, so I went to the site and right clicked on the page and I clicked translate... my screen turned white and blue and then vuola the page redisplayed in English. The toolbar is free and you can download it at http://www.google.com

Paul007 - 10-26-2005 at 01:27 PM

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[quote The toolbar is free and you can download it at http://www.google.com

Thank you Elie. That is great help to know some details of the French text. Otherwise I would understand almost nothing except some of the names!

Paul007 - 11-6-2005 at 01:17 PM

Hello, to those who are lucky to go to the festival. Please can you share a little about the concerts you went?
:wavey:

SamirCanada - 11-6-2005 at 01:28 PM

Of course I'll try my best. Iam only going to be able to attend the Naseer Shamma show wich is this comming wed. I'll have to post the video somewhere like rapidshare.de since it might be pretty big and I dont have a way to compress the video file. Anyways It will be a blast.

Paul007 - 11-6-2005 at 02:57 PM

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Originally posted by SamirCanada
Of course I'll try my best. Iam only going to be able to attend the Naseer Shamma show wich is this comming wed. I'll have to post the video somewhere like rapidshare.de since it might be pretty big and I dont have a way to compress the video file. Anyways It will be a blast.


Hi Samir,
I am jealous!
Have great time!