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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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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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