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اعلم أن الكثيرين يحضرون لانزال بوستات عن هذا العمل الفني المهول وذلك التنظيم المحكم
ولكنني لا يسعني الانتظار لازف اليكم بنفسي كيف كان ذلك العمل عملاقا وكيف توحدت ارادة الموسيقيين وكيف تفانوا جميعا وكيف تنافسوا بنقاء.
هذا المهرجان نتعشم في ان يتكرر سنوياوهذا ماوعدنا به الجمهور الذي امتلأت به ارض سنترال بارك
ولم يعد فيها موضع لقدم واحدة وكان الغالبية العظمي منه من غير السودانيين برغم العدد الضخم من السودانيين الذين كان يشكل حضورا مميزا.
وقد اثبتت موسيقانا أنها عالمية بحق ولا ينقصها الا من يقدمها الى العالم وصدق حدسنا وصدقت كل تبريراتنا حينما كنتم تسألوننا
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نرجو من كل الذين معهم الصور انزالها في هذا البوست
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StayTunedTV's camera crew is currently in New York City having covered the rehearsals and the First Annual Sudanese Music and Dance Festival this past Saturday the 21st of July in Central Park SummerStage at 3:00 P.M. Click on the image on the right margin for a video promotional reel shot this week during preparation for the Saturday show. For more information see our posting below.
New York City, New York, Central Park SummerStage. July 21, 2007
1st Annual SUDANESE MUSIC & DANCE FESTIVAL
Legendary Sudanese artists reunited for a united & peaceful Sudan. This concert was a landmark event. Backed by the Nile Orchestra, dozens of artists, many to be flown in from the Sudan, in addition to Sudanese ex-patriots, this legendary number of performers were united on stage for this very rare concert.
StayTunedTV will present the entire concert experience on www.staytunedtv.tv. Songs and interviews will be uploaded as we complete editing sections over the month of August.
From the New York Times July 23, 2007
MUSIC REVIEW | SUDANESE MUSIC AND DANCE FESTIVAL
Celebrating Sudan, With Songs of Peace and Protest
By JON PARELES
For the length of a concert on Sunday afternoon at Central Park SummerStage, Sudan was symbolically made whole. At the Sudanese Music and Dance Festival, dozens of performers shared the stage. They came from northern and southern Sudan, which ended a civil war with a 2005 peace agreement, and Darfur in western Sudan, where violence continues.
Many of the performers are now expatriates, in part because the strict Islamic sharia law now enforced in Sudan has severely restricted music. Muslim women danced onstage with their ######### uncovered, as they cannot do in Sudan. And an American audience, as well as the Sudanese who cheered lyrics in Nubian and Arabic, had a very rare glimpse of a tenacious musical culture. It was videotaped for Webcast and can be seen on StayTunedTV.tv.
There were traditional and new songs, including one about the city of Kajbar, where snipers recently fired on a peaceful protest march. There were songs about the land of Sudan, which is Africa’s largest country in area. There were songs about lost love, about beautiful girls, about mourning and about unity. In mini-sets of a few songs each, singers chose material from across the regions of Sudan. Nearly all of it was dance music.
Sudan’s music is not insular. It takes in Arabic and Egyptian influences from the north; the Nile Music Orchestra, which accompanied the singers and duos, resembled an Egyptian pop orchestra, including strings, saxophones and accordion. (Ancient Nubia overlapped what is now Egypt and Sudan.) From the South, Sudanese music draws on sub-Saharan rhythms — often six-beat, three-against-two patterns — and modal or pentatonic melodies, along with the gleaming lines of Congolese-style electric guitars. Vocal styles arrive from both directions, with Arabic-style glides and quavers — echoed by the strings — or African leaps and exhortations.
There are also touches of Western styles. The strongest music was a kind of Sudanese funk, similar to music from Ethiopia but with Sudanese roots. Different grooves — galloping, handclapping, bouncing, pattering — backed the singers Ali al Sigeed, Atif Anees, Al Balabil, Omar Bannaga, Ahmed Bass, Abd Al Hadi, Osama al Elshekh and Hadeel & Azza. Yousif Elmosley, the music director, also took a turn as singer, remaking a traditional song with new lyrics urging men to support women.
Triplet rhythms moved in syncopated, overlapping patterns as violins introduced melodies and countermelodies, then replied to the vocal lines, along with the saxophones. Omar Bannaga, who updates traditional songs, started with a sustained vocal prelude like a classical Arabic singer, then moved into a galloping, accelerating beat that pulled people upfront to dance. Abd Al Hadi began one song with a tambur, a traditional Nubian lyre, to be joined by the orchestra with an Afro-Cuban lilt. Emmanuel Kembe looked to the West, using a reggae beat and singing part of his songs in English, urging change in Sudan.
The concert featured two-thirds of one of Sudan’s most popular groups: Al Balabil (the Nightingales). They are a trio of sisters, formed in 1971, who continue to record and perform together. Two sisters who now live in the United States, Amal and Hadia Abdelmageed, appeared on Sunday while the third sister remained in Sudan. Their four songs — with high, curving unison vocal lines as asymmetrical as traditional music — were drawn from western, central and southern Sudan, and their mini-set included a costume change, from national to Nubian-style dresses.
The final songs were by Omar Ihsas, who is from Darfur. “We are all here for our homeland, for Sudan,” he said. With vehement, determined phrases, his song urged, “Let’s live together."
StayTunedTV's camera crew has just returned from the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas and our coverage of the 38th Annual World Series of Poker. Among the celebrities we interviewed, Adam Sandler, Donnie Wahlberg, Charles Barkley, and others that will be upcoming in the Las Vegas section of Staytunedtv. We also recorded an interview with Judson Laipply, of the YouTube video "Evolution of Dance," and will be presenting the story behind the famous dance along with the dance itself very soon.
Earlier our crew covered a live concert in Chicago at the Millennium Park, Pritzker Pavilion. This is a landmark event, the North American Premiere of Enzo Avitabile & I Bottari. In excess of 6,000 people were in attendance. The concert will be will be available on www.staytunedtv.tv in coming weeks and will be accessible through the Enzo Avitabile artist listing.
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الاوركسترا
1-يوسف الموصلي قيادة الاوركسترا
2-ميرغني الزين رئيس الاوركسترا كمان
3-احمد عثمان التجاني (باص) كمان
4-ميكائيل الضو كمان
5- بكري مصطفي كمان
6-عثمان مبارك كمان
7- مجدي العاقب كمان
8- ازهري عبد القادر اكورديون
9-ماهر تاج السر اورغ
10-حموده تينور ساكس
11-عبد الهادي التو ساكس
12-ريتشي (من اخطر عازفي الساكس) تينور/التو/سوبرانو ساكس
13-نادر السوداني بيز
14-عبد الحفيظ بيز
15-حمد اسماعيل بيز
16- معليش صولو جيتار
17-محمود العكام ريزم جيتار
18- رامي (أميريكي مصري) درمز
19-طارق شنقا بنفز
20-عبدو السر طبله
21-فايز مليجي كونقا
22- هديل الموصلي غناء مساعد ورقص
23-عزه مالك غناء مساعد ورقص
24- شاهنده ابوسن غناء مساعد ورقص
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الاستاذ يوسف الموصلى هل هذه المعلومات صحيحة وهل هؤلا الفنانين الذين شاركوا فى هذا الحفل ممنوعين من الغناء فى السودان وهل فى السودان الفنانات ممنوعات من الغناء مالم يرتدين الحجاب اتمنى ان يتم تصحيح هذه المعلومات ان امكن فلابد ان يكون هنالك شفافية فى تمليك الحقائق فى مثل هذه الاشياء.
سيف
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Re: نيويورك تايمس وستي تيون تي في/ في اكبر مهرجان سوداني باميريكا والعالم علي الاطلاق (Re: Elmosley)
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العزيز الدكتور يوسف الموصلي..
يا لها من لحظات و ياله من عمل ..فلقد ظللت طيلة أيام بقائي في أميركا
أن نحتشد فنآ و جمالآ و موسيقى .. حبآ قمحآ و حديقة..
إن الأنغام التى خرجت من هؤلاء الفنانيين و الموسيقين لهي مصدر فخر
لكل سودانى و سودانية في أمريكا..ملأناهم بساعات من الفرح الغامر و بعض
من تناجي الأوطان و الحزم الإنسانية التى سطعت في سماء نيويورك لتعلن
أننا لسنا أرهابيين و لسنا دمويين و لسنا قادحين لنار حرب و شر مستطير
ولكم يؤسفنى بأننى لم أكن من بين الحضور لكى أكون شاهدآ على تلك
الظاهرة الفنية الإنسانية الجامعة.. أود تقبيل جميع أياديكم لهؤلاء
النفر الكريم الذين عملوا هذا الجهد الضخم و رفعوا رأسي عاليآ,,,
فالتحية للأستاذ تاج السر المليك و التحية للدكتور متوكل محمود والعزاء
لأهل كلفورنيا لأنهم لم يحسنوا مد سواعدهم للحفاظ عليه و عليك..
التحية لك أخي الدكتور يوسف الموصلي و لكل من شارك و غنى و أعد لهذا
الحفل الظاهرة.. فلقد وعدتم و عملتم و أبدعتم و فعلتم.. فها نحن الآن
نثبت لأمريكا أولا و للعالم ثانيا بأننا لسنا من ثلة الإرهاب و القتل!
وأن الذين فعلوا ذلك لا يمتون لنا بصلة تعكس عقلنا الجمعي المسالم.
مرحي لكم و حزني على أولئك المتشككون و عملاء بعض السفارات و الأجراس
التى تقرع لصلوات لا يصل مداها مأذنةلا تسمع صوت الحق لشعبنا الصابر..
فلقد كنتم في يومكم هذا الصلوات..
و كنتم الصلات.. و كنتم الفن.. و كنتم المحبة.. و كنتم الوحدة..
و كنتم السودان.. و مرحى بكم فأنتم أعزتى و عزي..يا لكم من رائعون
فلقد جلبتم السلام في دواخلى و المجد الذي آوى بين جنبات الحقيقة
الساطعة كالشمس التى لا تغيب.
لكم الود و الحب و الرفعة لوطن أرهقه الزيف..!
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Music & Dance Festival To Be Held July 21
Published July 12, 2007
By Tad Hendrickson
Sudan is Africa's largest country. It is also one of the most diverse, with some 300 ethnic groups living in deserts, mountains, and along the shores of the great Nile River. Once called "the bread basket of Africa," Sudan today is better known for poverty, war, and ethnic and religious division. At the heart of Sudan's crisis is the fact that the country has never really coalesced. In ancient times, the north was the Kingdom of Nubia, with close ties to Egypt and the Arab world, and the south the territory of African agricultural groups, such as the Dinka, Shilluk, Nuer, and Azande. The south was physically cut off from Nubia by the nearly impassable swamplands of the White Nile. These two distant worlds became politically joined when Egypt annexed Sudan in the 19th century. When Britain then occupied Egypt in 1898, it claimed Sudan without so much as a fight. The trouble was, neither occupier had ever sought to forge an overarching, Sudanese identity. This was a country in name only.
Sudan won its independence in 1956, but given its history, fair and effective governance was impossible. Power tended to center in the Muslim north, and after the government imposed sharia law in 1989, people in the Christian south felt radically disenfranchised and victimized. After much strife and conflict, the north and south established a fragile Peace Accord in 2005. Meanwhile, new fighting surged in the West, in Darfur, and the world's attention focused there. The broad array of Sudanese musicians participating in the Sudanese Music and Dance Festival believe that both of these conflicts must be understood as pieces in a larger puzzle, the puzzle that is Sudan. Today, with the North-South Peace Accord as a model to be applied in Darfur and elsewhere, many Sudanese sense an opportunity to at last build a nation. These artists intend to show the way.
The Sudanese Music and Dance Festival event is produced and created by a veteran of daring world music initiatives in the United States, Dawn Elder. Elder, a composer and award winning music producer, has a passion for Sudanese music which goes back to her work with one of the greatest living Sudanese singers, Mohammed Wardi. Wardi no longer leaves his homeland, but the superlative orchestra that backed him and other Sudanese legends, the Nile Music Orchestra, will be the musical hub of this historic, Sudanese showcase, and the spirit of Wardi and his seminal generation will pervade the performance.
Dawn Elder is also the Director of Programming for the Internet all-music and dance site StayTunedTV. StayTunedTV is producing the concert video of the event for worldwide streaming as a "Recorded Live" event. The video production will be directed by John Kuri, an award winning filmmaker, writer, and television producer. Kuri created the StayTunedTV concept and has produced and directed the majority of the programming available on StayTunedTV.TV. StayTunedTV is a presentation of Kuri Productions, Inc. and its sister corporation Elixir Entertainment, Inc.
Dr. Mahmoud Mutwakil, head of the Sudan Information Center, and a key sponsor of the Sudanese Music and Dance Festival, says that everyone involved in this event shares one overriding motivation, "to work for a united, peaceful, democratic, and just Sudan." Dr. Mutwakil concludes, "It's time that these senseless wars stopped, and that people sat down together and solved their problems once and for all."
A Pantheon of Sudan's Diverse Cultural Legacy
The artists participating in the Sudanese Music and Dance Festival have lived the diverse and troubled history of Sudanese music. One of the festival's grandest figures Shurahibeel Ahmed was born in Omdurman in central Sudan in 1935, and he came to the capital, Khartoum, at a time when the lyric songs of the Sudanese tambour (lyre) were beginning to find common ground with the Arabic maqaam system of music, as well as the tradition of madeeh, praise songs to the Prophet Mohamed. The secular, and at times irreverent haqiba genre was emerging as an entrancing and distinctly local form of recreational song, especially popular at weddings. Shurahibeel was transfixed when he encountered a man from southern Sudan playing a guitar, an instrument he had never seen. Shurahibeel went on to specialize in guitar, and also to play saxophone, trumpet and trombone. He fell in love with jazz, the songs of Harry Belafonte, and Egyptian art music, especially Mohamed Abdel-Wahab, and all of this went into his unique and groundbreaking style. Shurahibeel recalled the 50s as a time of exuberance and optimism in Khartoum. Still, like Sudanese many greats of his generation, he ventured on to Cairo to begin his recording career. But he returned home, and during the 60s and 70s, his performances on Sudanese radio and television helped set a new, modern direction for popular music throughout the country.
In the 70s and 80s, fascinating musical hybrids flourished in Sudanese cities, such as Khartoum in the north, and Juba in the south. Mohammed Wardi's rich fusion of elements made him a sensation, along with other vocal giants such as Abdel Gadir Salim, Abdel Aziz el Mubarak, and Abu Araki Al Bakheit, who will represent this crucial generation in the festival. The music was orchestral and celebratory, Arab and African-quintessentially Sudanese.
The musical director for the Sudanese Music and Dance Festival is Yousif El Moseley, who moved from singing traditional songs with percussion to composing for and performing with wedding bands in 1970s Khartoum. As a star student at the Institute of Drama and Music, El Moseley earned the chance to travel to Cairo, where he attained a Masters degree in composition. When he returned to Khartoum in 1989 modernity was in the air. The amazing Balabils had hit the scene. This trio of talented, musically trained Nubian teenagers became Khartoum's answer to the Supremes, and they revolutionized social and artistic possibilities for Sudanese women.
Music and social life were advancing hand in hand as Sudan broached a new era, and El Moseley was poised to shepherd the Sudanese music scene to new heights. But shortly after his return, this tale of promise ended with the coup of 1989, and the imposition of sharia law. From this time onwards, life became terribly difficult for musicians. There was an 11PM curfew, and popular figures like El Moseley and Al Bakheit faced pressure to sing for the regime. Both refused, and suffered the consequences. El Moseley eventually moved to Cairo, where he became a successful producer, and between 1992-96, recorded 45 albums for all the top Sudanese singers. Al Bakheit tried to retire rather than sing for the regime, but his fans wouldn't let him stop, and he was harassed and threatened often as government minders scanned even his love songs for subversive messages.
There are many terrible stories from the 1990s and since. Irreplaceable manuscripts and recordings-especially of artists from the south-have been destroyed and erased. Musicians have been beaten, even murdered, and over 200 of the most beloved performance artists have gone into exile. From Cairo, Yousif El Moseley moved to the United States in 1996, and he now teaches in Monterrey, California. A number of other singers of his generation have followed him to the U.S., and the musicians with whom he made so many classic recordings, the Nile Music Orchestra, now live in Virginia. Some Sudanese artists, like the young singer/songwriter Rasha Sheikh Aldein Gibreel, moved to Europe. Rasha has made a promising crossover career blending Sudanese tradition with contemporary jazz and world music, and delivering powerful social commentary. Meanwhile, Rasha's older sister, Tumadir Sheikh Aldein Gibreel, abandoned her career as an actress and director Sudan to found the Brides of Nile Dance Group, presently based in Boston.
In New York, these artist will be reunited not only with one another but with legends like the Balabils-now divided between Doha, Khartoum, and Monterrey-and beloved artists who still struggle to make ends meet in Khartoum, like Shurahibeel Ahmed, Abu Araki Al Bakheit, and Zeidan Abrahim, beloved for his soft voice and sad songs. There will also be singers from the next generation, like Atif Aneis and Omer Banaga, who made his name with the band Igd Al Galad, champions of modernizing Sudanese folklore as electric pop music.
Most radical of all will be combination of these artists with rising stars from the southern Sudan and Darfur. Emmanuel Kembe is a contemporary Afropop star from the south, whose frank lyrics caused him to be jailed in Sudan in 1994. From his home in exile in the United States, Kembe now makes hugely successful recordings, and tours for the Sudanese diaspora community worldwide. Omer Ihsas of Darfur transitioned from a medical nurse to a successful soul singer, and now creates haunting, bluesy contemporary music, deeply connected with the suffering of his people back in Sudan.
The Nile Music Orchestra includes some of Sudan's most respected instrumentalists as well. The group's elite corps of string players, the Nile Strings, includes veterans with over 25 years of experience in the Sudan Radio and Television Orchestra, and other top ensembles. Ahmad "Bass" Al Tigiani is a master violinist, songwriter, composer, arranger and singer, beloved for his vocal adaptations of folk songs from his native region, Darfur. Merghani El Zain studied violin and composition in Russia in the late '80s and returned to found, along with Al Tigiani, Sudan's first instrumental orchestra. El Zain toured for years as part of Abdel Gadir Salim's ensemble. Mekail Bakhid is another veteran violinist from Darfur, but there is also young blood in today's Nile Strings, notably up-and-coming violin virtuoso Magdi Al Ageib. Among the many other instrumentalists here, two are particularly acclaimed, keyboardist Mahir Hassan, with over 25 years experience backing Sudanese vocal stars, and superstar percussionist Faiz Miligy, who comes from one of Sudan's most beloved musical families in the central, Jazira region. Members of the Nile Music Orchestra will travel from Sudan, Canada, the UK, and many parts of the United States for this unprecedented performance.
Although these artists come from different locations, ethnic backgrounds, generations, and experience, they all share a passionate vision of a united Sudan. Their presence on one stage will not only be an unprecedented summit of Sudan's greatest living musical talent, and an emotionally charged reunion for the participants, but most of all, a powerful symbol of what could be possible back home. This will be a true life example of musicians showing the way to a better world. This entire event will be presented worldwide via streaming on StayTunedTV.TV, the new all-music network bringing the music of the world to you via the Internet.
A press conference with all the artists is to be held in New York on July 18th. The location and time of the press conference will be announced soon.
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First Annual Sudanese Music and Dance Festival
07/12/2007 01:01AM
Contributed by: WMC_News_Dept.
This summer, an unprecedented gathering of musicians from the East African nation of Sudan will come together in New York to accomplish something politicians, war lords and diplomats have thus far failed to do: Unify Sudan. The event will take place Saturday July 21st, 2007 at Central Park Summer Stage, New York, 3pm-7pm.
The artists participating in the Sudanese Music and Dance Festival have lived the diverse and troubled history of Sudanese music. One of the festival’s grandest figures Shurahibeel Ahmed was born in Omdurman in central Sudan in 1935, and he came to the capital, Khartoum, at a time when the lyric songs of the Sudanese tambour (lyre) were beginning to find common ground with the Arabic maqaam system of music, as well as the tradition of madeeh, praise songs to the Prophet Mohamed.
The secular, and at times irreverent haqiba genre was emerging as an entrancing and distinctly local form of recreational song, especially popular at weddings. Shurahibeel was transfixed when he encountered a man from southern Sudan playing a guitar, an instrument he had never seen. Shurahibeel went on to specialize in guitar, and also to play saxophone, trumpet and trombone.
He fell in love with jazz, the songs of Harry Belafonte, and Egyptian art music, especially Mohamed Abdel-Wahab, and all of this went into his unique and groundbreaking style. Shurahibeel recalled the 50s as a time of exuberance and optimism in Khartoum. Still, like Sudanese many greats of his generation, he ventured on to Cairo to begin his recording career. But he returned home, and during the 60s and 70s, his performances on Sudanese radio and television helped set a new, modern direction for popular music throughout the country.
In the 70s and 80s, fascinating musical hybrids flourished in Sudanese cities, such as Khartoum in the north, and Juba in the south. Mohammed Wardi’s rich fusion of elements made him a sensation, along with other vocal giants such as Abdel Gadir Salim, Abdel Aziz el Mubarak, and Abu Araki Al Bakheit, who will represent this crucial generation in the festival. The music was orchestral and celebratory, Arab and African—quintessentially Sudanese.
The musical director for the Sudanese Music and Dance Festival is Yousif El Moseley, who moved from singing traditional songs with percussion to composing for and performing with wedding bands in 1970s Khartoum. As a star student at the Institute of Drama and Music, El Moseley earned the chance to travel to Cairo, where he attained a Masters degree in composition. When he returned to Khartoum in 1989 modernity was in the air. The amazing Balabils had hit the scene. This trio of talented, musically trained Nubian teenagers became Khartoum’s answer to the Supremes, and they revolutionized social and artistic possibilities for Sudanese women.
Music and social life were advancing hand in hand as Sudan broached a new era, and El Moseley was poised to shepherd the Sudanese music scene to new heights. But shortly after his return, this tale of promise ended with the coup of 1989, and the imposition of sharia law. From this time onwards, life became terribly difficult for musicians. There was an 11PM curfew, and popular figures like El Moseley and Al Bakheit faced pressure to sing for the regime. Both refused, and suffered the consequences. El Moseley eventually moved to Cairo, where he became a successful producer, and between 1992-96, recorded 45 albums for all the top Sudanese singers. Al Bakheit tried to retire rather than sing for the regime, but his fans wouldn’t let him stop, and he was harassed and threatened often as government minders scanned even his love songs for subversive messages.
There are many terrible stories from the 1990s and since. Irreplaceable manuscripts and recordings—especially of artists from the south—have been destroyed and erased. Musicians have been beaten, even murdered, and over 200 of the most beloved performance artists have gone into exile. From Cairo, Yousif El Moseley moved to the United States in 1996, and he now teaches in Monterrey, California.
A number of other singers of his generation have followed him to the U.S., and the musicians with whom he made so many classic recordings, the Nile Music Orchestra, now live in Virginia. Some Sudanese artists, like the young singer/songwriter Rasha Sheikh Aldein Gibreel, moved to Spain. Rasha has made a promising crossover career blending Sudanese tradition with contemporary jazz and world music, and delivering powerful social commentary. Meanwhile, Rasha’s older sister, Tumadir Sheikh Aldein Gibreel, abandoned her career as an actress and director Sudan to found the Brides of Nile Dance Group, presently based in Boston.
In New York, these artist will be reunited not only with one another but with legends like the Balabils—now divided between Doha, Khartoum, and Monterrey—and beloved artists who still struggle to make ends meet in Khartoum, like Shurahibeel Ahmed, Abu Araki Al Bakheit, and Zeidan Abrahim, beloved for his soft voice and sad songs. There will also be singers from the next generation, like Atif Aneis and Omer Banaga, who made his name with the band Igd Al Galad, champions of modernizing Sudanese folklore as electric pop music.
Most radical of all will be combination of these artists with rising stars from the southern Sudan and Darfur. Emmanuel Kembe is a contemporary Afropop star from the south, whose frank lyrics caused him to be jailed in Sudan in 1994. From his home in exile in the United States, Kembe now makes hugely successful recordings, and tours for the Sudanese diaspora community worldwide. Omer Ihsas of Darfur transitioned from a medical nurse to a successful soul singer, and now creates haunting, bluesy contemporary music, deeply connected with the suffering of his people back in Sudan.
The Nile Music Orchestra includes some of Sudan’s most respected instrumentalists as well. The group’s elite corps of string players, the Nile Strings, includes veterans with over 25 years of experience in the Sudan Radio and Television Orchestra, and other top ensembles.
Ahmad “Bass” Al Tigiani is a master violinist, songwriter, composer, arranger and singer, beloved for his vocal adaptations of folk songs from his native region, Darfur.
Merghani El Zain studied violin and composition in Russia in the late ‘80s and returned to found, along with Al Tigiani, Sudan’s first instrumental orchestra. El Zain toured for years as part of Abdel Gadir Salim’s ensemble.
Mekail Bakhid is another veteran violinist from Darfur, but there is also young blood in today’s Nile Strings, notably up-and-coming violin virtuoso Magdi Al Ageib.
Among the many other instrumentalists here, two are particularly acclaimed, keyboardist Mahir Hassan, with over 25 years experience backing Sudanese vocal stars, and superstar percussionist Faiz Miligy, who comes from one of Sudan’s most beloved musical families in the central, Jazira region. Members of the Nile Music Orchestra will travel from Sudan, Canada, the UK, and many parts of the United States for this unprecedented performance.
Although these artists come from different locations, ethnic backgrounds, generations, and experience, they all share a passionate vision of a united Sudan. Their presence on one stage will not only be an unprecedented summit of Sudan’s greatest living musical talent, and an emotionally charged reunion for the participants, but most of all, a powerful symbol of what could be possible back home. This will be a true life example of musicians showing the way to a better world. This entire event will be presented worldwide via streaming on StayTunedTV.TV, the new all-music network bringing the music of the world to you via the Internet.
The Sudanese Music and Dance Festival event is produced and created by a veteran of daring world music initiatives in the United States, Dawn Elder. Elder a composer and award winning music producer has a passion for Sudanese music which goes back to her work with one of the greatest living Sudanese singers, Mohammed Wardi. Wardi no longer leaves his homeland, but the superlative orchestra that backed him and other Sudanese legends, the Nile Music Orchestra, will be the musical hub of this historic, Sudanese showcase, and the spirit of Wardi and his seminal generation will pervade the performance.
Dawn Elder is also the Director of Programming for the Internet all-music and dance site www.StayTunedTV.TV. StayTunedTV is producing the concert video of the event for worldwide streaming as a “Recorded Live” event. The video production will be directed by John Kuri, an award winning filmmaker, writer, and television producer. Kuri created the StayTunedTV concept and has produced and directed the majority of the programming available on StayTunedTV.TV. StayTunedTV is a presentation of Kuri Productions, Inc. and its sister corporation Elixir Entertainment, Inc.
Dr. Mahmoud Mutwakil, head of the Sudan Information Center, and a key sponsor of the Sudanese Music and Dance Festival, says that everyone involved in this event shares one overriding motivation, “to work for a united, peaceful, democratic, and just Sudan.” Dr. Mutwakil concludes, “It’s time that these senseless wars stopped, and that people sat down together and solved their problems once and for all.”
Background about Sudan
Sudan is Africa’s largest country. It is also one of the most diverse, with some 300 ethnic groups living in deserts, mountains, and along the shores of the great Nile River. Once called “the bread basket of Africa,” Sudan today is better known for poverty, war, and ethnic and religious division. At the heart of Sudan’s crisis is the fact that the country has never really coalesced.
In ancient times, the north was the Kingdom of Nubia, with close ties to Egypt and the Arab world, and the south the territory of African agricultural groups, such as the Dinka, Shilluk, Nuer, and Azande. The south was physically cut off from Nubia by the nearly impassable swamplands of the White Nile. These two distant worlds became politically joined when Egypt annexed Sudan in the 19th century. When Britain then occupied Egypt in 1898, it claimed Sudan without so much as a fight. The trouble was, neither occupier had ever sought to forge an overarching, Sudanese identity. This was a country in name only.
Sudan won its independence in 1956, but given its history, fair and effective governance was impossible. Power tended to center in the Muslim north, and after the government imposed sharia law in 1989, people in the Christian south felt radically disenfranchised and victimized. After much strife and conflict, the north and south established a fragile Peace Accord in 2005. Meanwhile, new fighting surged in the West, in Darfur, and the world’s attention focused there. The broad array of Sudanese musicians participating in the Sudanese Music and Dance Festival believe that both of these conflicts must be understood as pieces in a larger puzzle, the puzzle that is Sudan. Today, with the North-South Peace Accord as a model to be applied in Darfur and elsewhere, many Sudanese sense an opportunity to at last build a nation. These artists intend to show the way.
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Re: نيويورك تايمس وستي تيون تي في/ في اكبر مهرجان سوداني باميريكا والعالم علي الاطلاق (Re: ابراهيم عدلان)
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الأخ العزيز يوسف الموصلى،
الف تهانى بهـذا النجاح الكبيـر، والعام القادم معكم إنشـاء الله.. كما أهنئ الأخ
والصديق د. متوكل محمـود، هـذا الرجل مثال للثقـة فى النفس.. ويرجى منه الكثيـر
والأكبر.. والتهانئ موصولـة لكل من عمل لذلك اليوم، ولو بأقل القليل.
كلما رأيت مسيرات سانت باتريك، وكرنفالات امريكـا اللاتينيـة فى نيويورك، كنت
أتسـاءل، لماذا لا يكون لنـا نحن الســودانيين يومـا فى السنـة، ننشــر فيه ثقافتنا
التى لا تقل عن هـذه الثقافات، بل تتفوق عليهـا عمقـا وتأريخـا وخصـوبـة.. فها
أنتم أيهـا الأبطال تححقون الحلم، ولكن مع الأسـف لم أكن معكـم هناك.
أقترح ان يكون هـذا اليوم كل عام.. وأن يسجل البرنامج كمؤسسـة غير ربحيـة، وترصد
له الإمكانيات منذ بدايـة العام.
شكـرا لكم مرة اخرى.
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Re: نيويورك تايمس وستي تيون تي في/ في اكبر مهرجان سوداني باميريكا والعالم علي الاطلاق (Re: الصادق خليفة)
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أستاذى الجميل الموصلي
وأخوتى الفنانيين مغنيين وعازفين
سالت دمعه من العين وهى تفيض إنبهارا ودهشه بهذا المهرجان .. أنتم لها .. ومن غيركم يصنع الجمال والدهشه .. وأي سفارة غير الفن تبث التراث والحضارة؟؟
عظماء أنتم .. رائعون .. سعداء نحن لأننا ننتمي اليكم روحا وإحساسنا بأننا جزء منكم وأنتم من شكل هذا الإحساس..
مزيد من التوفيق مزيد من الأبهار مزيد من الإدهاش ونجاحات تتوالي مدي الدهر..
أمنيات صادقة وتحايا لكل من ساهم فى هذا الحدث الكبير الفريد..
وحب ومودة خالصة للفنان الإنسان أبوعركي عندما يحل بردا وسلاما وفنا وطربا على أمريكا..
عزيز خطاب
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Re: نيويورك تايمس وستي تيون تي في/ في اكبر مهرجان سوداني باميريكا والعالم علي الاطلاق (Re: معتز تروتسكى)
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لكم سعدنا كثيرا بهذا المهرجان
الذى يؤكد عظمة الفنان السودانى وابداعه
دمتم مشاعل للعلم والثقافة والفن
رايت بينكم الثلاثى (الكندى)
الاصدقاء
عبد الهادى..حمد اسماعيل..وشنقة
والله لقد شرفونا بوجودهم بينكم..رمزا
للفن الراقى
وهذه فرصة عظيمة للتنسيق معهم
ونقل هذه الاحتفالية الى كندا
وهناك مسرح عالمى على ضفاف بحيرة اونتاريو
بتورنتو..تدعى له سنويا اعظم الفرق الموسيقية
من كل انحاء العالم ليقدموا ابداعهم
ودائما ما نستمتع بما يقدم على هذا المسرح المكشوف
نتمنى وبكل فخر ان نرى هذه المجموعة الذهبية
بيننا ..صدقونى ستكون ليلة من ذات الليالى
واسالوا الصديق حمد اسماعيل
عظيم امتنانا الفنان الموصلى وباقة النجوم
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Re: نيويورك تايمس وستي تيون تي في/ في اكبر مهرجان سوداني باميريكا والعالم علي الاطلاق (Re: Elmosley)
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استاذنا الحبيب
ابوهديل
لكم التحية والتقدير
وانتم تحملون الوطن في حدقات العيون ,
وانتم تعكسون وجه السودان المشرق
باشراقاتكم وابداعاتكم التي شهد
عليها القاصي والداني ..
تقاطرتم من كل حدب وصوب
ثلة من العظماء لفتت انتباه
الدنيا وشدت الناس باننا على وجه البسيطة فاعلون
عندما علمت بسفر الاخوه ازهري وحفيظ
تمنيت ان اكون معهم لنسهم ولو بالقليل
في هذه الاحتفالية التي سيخلدها من عاشوها
وسيسطرها لكم التاريخ كانجاز ماكان له ان يكون لولا روحكم
التي تتوق دوما للجمال ...
سيروا على ذات الدرب ولايسبطكم المسبطون ولاتلتفتو لهذه الخربشات
ودمتم عنواناللروعة والجمال ....
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 Re: نيويورك تايمس وستي تيون تي في/ في اكبر مهرجان سوداني باميريكا والعالم علي الاطلاق (Re: Elmosley)
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البهجة في عينيكم ... و ما شاءالله عليكم يا أستـــاذ الموصلي....
وفقكم/ن الله جميعــاً و أنتم/ن ترفعون لواء الفن السوداني من على الٌبعـد ... و تمخرون بعبابه في بلاد العم ســام ... لعكس أصالة هذا الفن و معدن هذا الشعب للتلاقي في ساعة المحن في خندق واحــد ... التحايا العطرة لكل هذه الكوكبة و لكل من ساهم في هذه التظاهرة الفنية ... و متعكم الله بالصحة و العافية ... و متى نرجع و ترجع أيامنا الجميلة و نعيش في حب و وئام في بلدنا الحبيب .....
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