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The legandary Master Musicians of Joujouka host their 3rd annual festival in the beautiful Ahl Srif Djebel, 20km from Ksar El Kebir. Brought the attention of Western artists by the painter Mohamed Hamri (1932-2000) who was born in the village and whose mother was sister to manyMaster Musicians.
Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 4-5 June 2010 with optional extra night 6th June 2010
Place: Joujouka, (Jajouka), Morocco.
Booking Master Musicians of Joujouka website
Boujeloud dances at the Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival,
Joujouka, Morocco July 2008. Photo Jill Furmanovsky/Rock Archive
Credit Joiner image by Jill Furmanovsky of The Master Musicians of Joujouka and the village of Joujouka from the Master Musicians of Joujouka Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival, 29th July, 2008. Jill is a legendary music photgrapher who has worked and /or taken live images of Rolling Stones, Bob Marley, Oasis, Amy Winehouse, Bob Dylan, Master Musicians of Joujouka and Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Bachir Attar and more. To see more of Jill Furmanovsky's work see http://www.rockarchive.com/jill-furmanovsky-prints.html
The Master Musicians announce their summer festival will be held 4-6June 2010 in their village in Morocco. Guests will stay with the musicians and their families and experience three days and nights of ritual Sufi music in its natural setting. On Saturday 5 June the musicians will perform the Boujeloud ritual in the village square through the night. In July 2008 the Master Musicians of Joujouka hosted the Brian Jones 40th Anniversary Festival in their village in the southern Rif Mountains of Northern Morocco. The festival was a celebration of fortieth anniversary of Brian Jones' recording the iconic LP Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka (Rolling Stones Records 1971). The festival brought the families of old Masters now passed on and a group of visitors from abroad including old friends of the errant Rolling Stone
In 2009 the Master Musicians festival moved to June as the tempreture at the end of July can be above 40C. The festival was a great success and was reported on in The Wire magazine October, 2009.
Guests will experience life in Joujouka staying with the musicians and their families in their isolated village. The Master Musicians of Joujouka will play in intimate sessions around their madrassa/school. The highlight of the festival wwill be the village's celebration of the Boujeloud ritual in the village square.
Places at the festival are strictly limited as due to accommodation limitations with the families in Joujouka/Jajouka. Guests will be collected from Ksar El Kebir the nearest town to Joujouka on Friday 5th June and will be brought to the village. Full board will be provided. Food will be prepared in traditional Joujouka fashion from locally sourced produced. Joujouka is a framing community well as Sufi trance music the village is famous for its beautiful olives and olive oil.
The festival is booking now. The price for the main two days of the festival 4-5 June is €250 euro.
Guests will be collected at Moulay El Mehdi train station in Ksar El Kebir on June 4th and transported to Joujouka or by arrangement . For Moroccan trains see www.oncf.ma
Full board lunch and evening meal on Friday 4 June
Breakfast, Lunch and traditional Moroccan mountain feast on Saturday 5
Breakfast (all guests) plus lunch, and evening meal on Sunday 6th (for those with three day bookings)
Booking now on Master Musicians of Joujouka Web Site or below
For payment by credit transfer please email me for details joujouka@gmail.com
Places are limited to 75.
If you have any questions please do get in touch. joujouka@gmail.com
PDF of report from Mojo the UK monthly music magazine http://media.mind2hands.com/insom/MJMM01.pdf
This is an ethical festival and all funds go directly to the Master Musicians of Joujouka and all food is sourced locally.
Tareq Abboushi - Buzuq, percussion, composition
Lefteris Bournias - Clarinet
Héctor Morales - Congas, Cajón
Zafer Tawil - Riq, Durbakkeh, Cymbals
Danny Zanker- Bass
Alwan for the Arts
16 Beaver Street (between Broad and Broadway), 4th floor,
New York, NY 10004
(646) 732-3261
Returning to Alwan after a three-year hiatus, this outstanding ensemble, blending Arab, Latin and Jazz modes, will perform selections from their upcoming CD, Mumtastic.
Tickets: $15, available at the door or online here. (A small online fee is applied - use printout as your ticket).
Doors open at 8:30 p.m.
Listen to the title track from SHUSMO's first CD, One.
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"SHUSMO" in Arabic means "what's his name." This ensemble began to take shape in the Fall of 2000. At first, the intent was quite simple: To blend various elements of jazz and Middle Eastern music, and to present them through powerful grooves. Over the years, as the sound of the band began to mature, other elements came into play including Latin rhythms, counterpoint, and spoken word.
Today, every member brings their own background to add flavor to the compositions, and the result is far beyond what the original goals were. This New York City based band has recorded music for the film "West Bank-Brooklyn," and theme music for WBAI's radio show "Fen Meshnoon with Dean and Maysoon."
Since releasing their first album "One" in February 2005, they have performed at a number of festivals in the US and internationally including The Jerusalem Festival (Jerusalem, Palestine), Sounds of the City (Newark, NJ), Atlantic Antic (Brooklyn, NY), NextNext Series at BAM Cafe (Brooklyn Academy of Music), and Festival Du Monde Arabe (Montréal). Other venues include New York and Columbia Universities, and Joe's Pub.
For more info please visit: www.shusmo.com
Dates of workshop: February 14, 15, and 16, 2010
Following up on her sold-out performance at Alwan in December, Iranian oud sensation Negar Booban will host a three-day workshop in Persian oud techniques and performance.
Alwan for the Arts
16 Beaver Street (between Broad and Broadway), 4th floor,
New York, NY 10004
(646) 732-3261
Overview:
Session 1: Sunday, February 14, 2010, 1:00-3:30 p.m.
Persian-music-oriented "Mizrab" (plectrum) and fingering techniques that form most of the embellishments in Persian music
Session 2: Monday, February 15, 2010, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Persian music "Dastgah" (musical modes) system and its relative fingerings
Session 3: Tuesday, February 16, 6:30-9:00 p.m.
Continuation of Dastgah and review of Sessions 1 and 2, plus a short performance by interested workshop students and by the instructor.
Cost: $125
For more information or to register, contact Jamal Rayyis at jamal@alwanforthearts.org or call (646) 732-3261.
Listen to a sample of Negar's playing here
About the Instructor:
Born in Tehran, Iran in 1973, Negar Booban studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, earning an MA in Architecture with her design of Tehran's future Conservatory. Focusing on special acoustic design, she concurrently studied music and musical acoustics, sparking her interest in the principles of Persian music of the past. Negar mastered the 'oud and Persian radif (a collection of old melodies handed down by masters to students throughout the generations) and since 1994 has worked with numerous ensembles of Persian classical music. She has given over one hundred performances, including the Fajr and Yas Music Festivals, and made several recordings. Negar is also deeply involved with the art of improvisation, both in traditional "Dastgah" (Persian musical modal system) and in free improvisation on themes of various origins and modes.
Her solo oud album, Payaapey ("Continuous"), was released in August 2008. She holds a Ph.D in Art Research, her dissertation on a comparative study of rhythm in Persian music and Persian language, and is currently an instructor of 'oud at the Tehran Conservatory of Music.
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