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Thursday, February 25, 2010

WEEKLY AGENDA MUSIC FEB. 27 - MAR. 5


Saturday, February 27, 2010
- Cairo Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andreas Spörri with soloist Inès Abdel Daim (Flute) present works from Berlioz, Khachaturian and Shostakovich in the Main Hall of Cairo Opera House, 8:00 PM
- Ali El Ward (Iraq/Arabic music) at El Sawi Cultural Centre in Zamalek, 8:00 PM
- Instrumental Therapy & THE (Progressive Rock) at El Sawi Cultural Centre in Zamalek, 8:30 PM
- Massar Egbari (Rock) at the Cairo Jazz Club, 9:30 PM
- Al-Ghouri Tannoura Dance Group at the Ghouri Caravansaray 8:30 PM

Sunday, February 28, 2010
- “Nordic Gala” with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nader Abbassi with soloists Stefanos Thomopoulos (piano), Mona Rafla (Soprano) and Jolie Faizy (Mezzo-Soprano) present works by Stenhammar, N/ielsen and Grieg in the Main Hall of Cairo Opera House, 8:00 PM
- Mahmoud Osman violin recital in the Small Hall of Cairo Opera House, 8:00 PM
- George Kazazian (Oud) at El Sawi Cultural Centre in Zamalek, 8:30 PM
- The Riff Band at El Sawi Cultural Centre in Zamalek, 8:00 PM
- Cocoon Band (Latin jazz) at the Cairo Jazz Club, 9:30 PM
- Al-Enshad Al-Dini religious song ensemble at the Gomhouria Theatre, 8:00 PM
- Saama troupe, Indonesian troupe and Coptic troupe for religious singing at the Ghouri Palace, 8:00 PM
- El-Nil Troupe for folk instruments (Folk music and songs) at Beit Al-Suheimi 8:00 PM
- Bashir (Nubian music) at the After8 Club, 10:00 PM

Monday, March 1, 2010
- Chamber music concert celebrating the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth, with Elena Dzamashvili (Piano), Mohamed Abdel Fattah (Cello), Dina Iskander (Soprano) and Iman Samy (Piano) in the Small Hall of Cairo Opera House, 8:00 PM
- String Quartet featuring Mounir Nasr El Din (Violin) in the Oriental Hall of AUC Downtown Campus, 8:00 PM
- Esedra (Italy/Jazz) at the Makan, 9:00 PM
- El Mahatta (Contemporary Egyptian music) at El Sawi Cultural Centre in Zamalek, 8:30 PM
- Wust El Balad (Modern oriental and jazz fusion) at the After8 Club, 10:00 PM
- DJ Tito (Minimal house) at the Cairo Jazz Club, 9:30 PM
- Al-Ghouri Tannoura Dance Group at the Ghouri Caravansaray 8:30 PM

Tuesday, March 2, 2010
- Amal Maher in the Small Hall of the Cairo Opera House, 8:00 PM
- Nass Makan (Nubian music, Zikr and Sufi songs, Sudanese music and songs) at the Makan Centre 9:00 PM
- Sodfa Band (Egyptian music) at El Sawi Cultural Centre in Zamalek, 8:00 PM
- Pirates on Parade (Acoustic covers) at the Cairo Jazz Club, 10:30 PM

Wednesday, March 3, 2010
- Chamber music concert celebrating the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth, with Elena Dzamashvili (Piano), Mohamed Abdel Fattah (Cello), Dina Iskander (Soprano) and Iman Samy (Piano) in the Ewart Memorial Hall of AUC Downtown Campus, 8:00 PM
- Mazaher Ensemble (Music of the Delta) at the Makan Centre 9:00 PM
- Asfalt - El ZeroArab Rap Family - Samy Z (Hip Hop and Rap) at El Sawi Cultural Centre in Zamalek, 8:30 PM
- Gowaya Aghat (Egyptian music) at El Sawi Cultural Centre in Zamalek, 8:00 PM
- Al-Ghouri Tannoura Dance Group at the Ghouri Caravansaray 8:30 PM
- DJ Ramsi (Funky house) at the Cairo Jazz Club, 10:30 PM

Thursday, March 4, 2010
- Cairo Symphony Orchestra conducted by Taha Nagui with soloist Haitham Ibrahim (Piano) present works from Rossini and Mozart in the Small hall of Cairo Opera House, 8:00 PM
- Heritage Ensemble for Arab Music at the Gomhouria Theatre, 8:00 PM
- Sahra (Rai music) at the After8 Pub, 10:00 PM
- Yehya Khalil (Jazz) at the Cairo Jazz Club, 10:30 PM

Friday, March 5, 2010
- Iman Nour El Din piano recital in the Small Hall of Cairo Opera House, 8:00 PM
- Coptic Hymns Ensemble conducted by Diaa Sabri at the Gomhouria Theatre, 8:00 PM
- Salalem (Arabic music) at the After8 Pub, 10:00 PM DJ Carlos at the Cairo Jazz Club, 10:30 PM

7 comments:

  1. Guyz ...

    Tonight - Saturday Feb 27th
    07:30 pm
    @ the Factory space of the Townhouse gallery

    there'll be a clown performance by clowns from Cairo and other clowns from "Clowns without Borders - USA"

    I saw the Egyptian clowns last year with (Clowns sans Frontieres - France) and they were really KOOL :)))

    and I think that tonight is goin' to be FUN as well :))))

    so make sure not to miss it :))

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  2. Update ...

    Monday March 1st
    09:00pm
    @ MAKAN
    http://www.egyptmusic.org


    "ESEDRA" Group from Italy

    Giovanni Giuffrida - Guitar
    Ezio Epaminonda - Bass Sax
    Gino Catanzaro - Drums

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  3. Update
    film screenings


    Corto del MED Festival (2009)
    film screenings
    @ Mahmood Mokhtar Cultural center

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=339368433420


    Corto del MED Festival (2009)
    http://altermed.free.fr/spip.php?rubrique38

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  4. Is there some way to subscribe to the site and have the weekly agenda delivered to one's e-mail or facebbok alerts? It's possible that there's a link here that I missed. This is such a fanatastic site, I am sorry that I just found it now! It certainly could've saved me a lot of wandering and sloppy phonecalls. Thanks!

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  5. Dear Jaymie,
    Thanks for the compliments, I really appreciate.
    There is no way to get only the weekly agenda but you can subscribe to the site using the "Subscribe to CLEG" (Posts) feature on the right column of the screen, under the "Comments" column. You can choose several web based mail providers or Outlook. There is no feature for Facebook though. Hope this helps.
    All the best

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  6. salah gamil compositeur tel.0660848446 sog.sftm@gmail.com

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  7. I would like to know if there is a concert coming up for Amal Maher. My Email address is hesham_hesham@hotmail.com

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