Proud of our Jordanian partners who are working to promote the good of Jordan. This important region gives us hope for a better tomorrow and Jordan shows us that there is no better way to live life than to the fullest! Celebrate Jordan with me! warm regards, Sandy Dhuyvetter
The main stage performances
will be taking place 24th April thru 27th April 2016 at
Haya Cultural Centre, with side performances titled “Madina Jazz”. These
smaller venues will be set up throughout the duration of the festival until the
1st of May.
Opening night, April 24, kicks off with Jordanian virtuoso, Ms.
Farah Siraj. Ms Siraj is known as the “Norah Jones of the
Middle East” by the New York Times. Ms.
Farah Siraj balances a career that spans the United States, Europe and the
Middle East, spreading the message of peace through her music and giving a
voice to women and children around the world who are living in war and poverty.
The Festival is the single major event dedicated to Jazz in Jordan.
The Festival is the single major
event dedicated to Jazz in Jordan. The goals of the festival are to attract musicians,
attract new audiences and expand internationally all the while creating opportunities
for sustainable cultural exchanges. The Festival celebrates diversity, cultural
fusion, creativity, unity and dialogue. The event features international,
regional and local Jazz musicians to present their artistry to the Jordanian
audience. This year during the 5th edition, the Amman Jazz Festival will
be presenting different forms of Jazz music focusing on collaborations that
reflect fresh new sounds.
The EU supports the Amman Jazz Festival
The EU supports the Amman Jazz Festival, with a special
night being dedicated to presenting Jazz music from Europe on the 26th
of April at Haya Cultural Centre, under the name of “A Night of European
Jazz” featuring REK Raed el Khazen & Daniele Camarda in a
joint project bringing four musicians together from Lebanon and Italy, the
German trumpet and piano player Sebastian
Studnitzky in a solo piano
performance of classical jazz, and NO
Blues from the Netherlands which
combines oriental Arabic roots with folk blues.
2016 Music Festivals adds to the already diverse
Tourism offering in Jordan
Jordan
looks at Music Festivals as an added value experience while touring the
Kingdoms diverse cultural, adventure, eco-tourism and wellness choices.
Jordan tourism is appealing
to a diverse traveller by offering Festivals throughout the 2016 calendar year
and hopes to continue to attract new and young visitors to the Kingdom. “Jordan
is a jewel, full of talented entertainers, amazing foods, and terrific sites”
says Mona Naffa, of Monaco Business Development a company that creates
Campaigns to share the ‘positive of Jordan. Ms Naffa added, “Petra, the new
Wonder of the World, along with the music scene in the Kingdom is on the must
do list.
MFunded by the
European Union, which is implemented by the EU National Institutes for Culture
(EUNIC) in Jordan whose members include: the British Council, Instituto
Cervantes, Institut Francais, Goethe Institute, Embassy of Greece, Embassy of
Romania and Societa Dante Alighieri. In Partnership with: the Netherlands
Embassy in Jordan, Al Mawred Al Thaqafi, Haya Cultural Center and Fonds Podium
FPK
Farah Siraj (Jordan/Spain)
Ms
Farah Siraj currently leads an ethnically diverse quintet of “Arabian Flamenco
Jazz” (Rolling Stone Magazine), embracing
the music of the Middle East, Spain and the United States. Farah's releases include her album NOMAD (funded personally by His Majesty
King Abdullah II of Jordan), The Arabian
Jazz Project (landing Farah to be chosen as one of New York's “Stars of Jazz”) and her latest release, Dunya.
Farah has shared the stage with India's most renowned composer, A.R. Rahman,
performing Zariya live on MTV.
Farah
Siraj (Voice & Flamenco Guitar), Tareq Jundi (Oud), Munther Jaber (Bass),
Maher Hanhan (Percussion/Drums), special
appearance by Kamal Musallam (Oriental Guitar), and special
guest Rami Attallah (Piano). www.farahsiraj.com
Rami
Attallah Group presenting Shokran
Jazzilan (Egypt)
'Shokran
Jazzilan’ is an Egyptian Jazz project that has a unique sound which aims at
preserving the beauty of Egyptian melody accompanied by oud within a jazz
context. The project founder Rami Attallah, has been heavily influenced by his
late grandfather Labib Henien, the founder of jazz in Egypt in the 1960s. Rami
Attallah grew up absorbing jazz from bebop to bossa nova to swing. This newly
formed unique project has the qualities of being acknowledged as a world class
entity fit enough to be part of jazz festivals worldwide.
The
‘Shokran Jazzilan’ album was released in 2014 at the Cairo Jazz Festival under
the slogan “When Pharaohs Play Jazz” and was a best seller at Virgin Megastores in Egypt. The project
was performed in many renowned venues in Cairo.
Rami Attallah (Piano and Composition), Mohamed
Abozekry (Oud), Ehab Tass (Bass), Muhammad Raafat (Drums). www.RamiAttallah.com
NO Blues (Netherlands)
NO blues is the crossroad where folk-blues and Arabic
music meet. In 2004 Anne-Maarten van Heuvelen (double bass/ lead vocals),
Haytham Safia (Oud,
Arabic lute/ lead vocals) and Ad van Meurs (guitar/ lead vocals), got together
to combine American folk blues and traditional Arabic music. Completing the
line-up in the first recording sessions, NO Blues is joined by Osama Meleegi
(percussion/ lead vocals). After ten years on the road, gigs from India to
Mexico, and six successful album releases, the band that combines two different
is still going strong.
The NO blues fan base grows every day by people who
hear the band for the first time and are moved by what seems impossible. www.noblues.nl
REK (Lebanon/Italy)
Beirut-born Raed El-Khazen is a seasoned,
versatile guitarist who has, in the past 20 years, accumulated a portfolio that
has catapulted him from a local guitar celebrity in the mid 90’s to one of the
most prolific producers/composers/guitarists in the Arab world today.
During his time at Berklee College of Music in
Boston, Raed met a great musician who he still collaborates with to this day;
Daniele Camarda. Their musical partnership started in 1998 in the school’s
rehearsal rooms and continues to grow globally, Eighteen years later, their
current project is a combination of their love for the American songbook and
their vision to always give any material a personal twist, producing a sound
that is both fed by their present experiences and fueled by works of the past.
REK: Jazz Standards with a Mediterranean Flair!
Joining them on this venture is Italian drummer Carmine Casciello and Lebanese
trumpet player Walid Sadek.
Studnitzky Ky (Germany)
Studnitzky has always been moving
between the realms of jazz, classical and electronic music. In his unique music
not a single note is superfluous. It is detailed, minimalistic and transparent,
yet it displays an emotional depth which is uniquely personal. STUDNITZKY is
already an internationally acclaimed performer of the highest level on both
trumpet and piano.
In 2012 he founded Contemplate,
his own record label and network. In 2014 he initiated the XJAZZ Festival
Berlin and took charge as its musical director. It immediately became Berlin’s
largest jazz festival and turned the German jazz scene on its head. Since
September 2014 Sebastian Studnitzky has been a professor for Jazz-trumpet at
the Dresden University of Music.
Sebastian
Studnitzky (Trumpet, Piano), Laurenz Karsten (Guitar), Paul Kleber (Bass),
Tim Sarhan (Drums).
Noha
Fekry (Egypt)
Noha
Fekry is an Egyptian singer, songwriter and composer. Noha first appeared as
one of the two front singers of the Riff band, one of the leading Jazz/oldies
bands in Egypt. Fekry's genres of focus have been Jazz and Arabic Jazz and her
first album was released in May 2015 entitled "A Conversation", a duo
Jazz album with pianist Rami Attallah.
She
is currently working on her second album with her newest musical project
"Janan", an alternative rock band.
Noha
received vocal training with renowned Opera Singers Dr. Sobhi Bidair and Dr. Raouf
Zidan and is currently an understudy pianist with Mr. Rashad Fahim.
Noha
Fekry (Vocals), Rami Attallah (Piano and Composition), Ehab Tass (Bass),
Muhammad Raafat (Drums)
The Amman Jazz Festival is produced by Orange Red Productions
For Information: Lama Hazboun
Orange Red Productions: +962795351812
Media Contacts:
Monaco Business Development
Jordan Mona Naffa
24/4
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8 PM
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Haya Cultural Centre
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Farah Siraj (Jordan/Spain) – JD 20
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25/4
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8 PM
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Haya Cultural Centre
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Rami Attallah Group presenting
Shokran Jazzilan (Egypt) – JD 5
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26/4
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8 PM
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Haya Cultural Centre
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A Night of European Jazz
REK |Sebastian Studnitzky|
NO Blues
(Lebanon/Italy |Germany
|Netherlands)
FREE ENTRY
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27/4
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8 PM
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Haya Cultural Centre
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Studnitzky -KY- (Germany) – JD 5
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Amman
Jazz Festival – Main Stage Program (24 – 27 April)
Amman
Jazz Festival - Madina Jazz Program (22 April – 1 May)
22/4
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9 PM
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Maestro Late Night Jazz
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The Jazz Group -
guest Kamal Musallam (Jordan)
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24/4
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9 PM
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Corner’s Pub
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Rami Attallah Group presenting
Shokran Jazzilan (Egypt)
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25/4
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9 PM
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Blue Fig
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NO Blues (Netherland)
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6:30 PM
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Maestro Late Night Jazz
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Jazz Clinic by REK (Italy/Lebanon)
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9 PM
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Maestro Late Night Jazz
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Studnitzky – KY
#irtijalat Jam sessions
with local musicians
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26/4
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9 PM
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Maestro Late Night Jazz
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Rami Attallah Group presenting
Shokran Jazzilan (Egypt)
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27/4
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9:30 PM
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Trader Vic’s
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Noha Fekry Jazz Quartet (Egypt)
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9 PM
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Maestro Late Night Jazz
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REK (Italy/Lebanon)
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28/4
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7:30 PM
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Shoman Foundation
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NO Blues (Netherland)
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9 PM
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Maestro Late Night Jazz
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Noha Fekry Jazz Quartet (Egypt)
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29/4
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9 PM
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Maestro Late Night Jazz
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NO Blues (Netherland)
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30/4
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9 PM
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Blue Fig
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Noha Fekry Jazz Quartet (Egypt)
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1/5
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7:30 PM
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The Boulevard
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Noha Fekry Jazz Quartet (Egypt)
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