The Tyre Music Festival will be especially joyful, marking as it does a year since south Lebanon was liberated from Israeli occupation forces.
Organizers hope that the stage will be graced by Kazem Saher, Asala, Magida Roumy and Assi Hellani, as well as Palestinian, Ukrainian and Chinese folk bands, according to thisiscyberia.com.
Apart from the concerts staged at Tyre’s Roman hippodrome, a joint traditional wedding of twenty couples, paid for by the Tyre festival, will take place on July 8.
It will surely be a night to remember for Lebanon’s top classical singer Magida Roumi, who originates from Tyre. She is expected to do a special show, in which she will present some of her favorite works, combined with such patriotic songs as “Shaabak Wa’if Bil Rihe” (Your People Standing in the Face of Storm) and certainly her moving Qana, which pays tribute to the martyrs of the Israeli massacre in 1996.
Assi Hellani from ‘city of martyrs,’ Baalbek, will sing some of Lebanon’s most beloved tunes, including Houwara and Dala’ona, along some of his own songs on village life in general and the south in particular.
In the light of the festival’s theme, soft-voiced Kazem Saher and his dulcet, nostalgic music will perhaps bring to mind the suffering of the Iraqi people. Most fans, however, will be just delighted to hear him performing a selection from his latest album Looking For You.
One of the much awaited concerts is no doubt Asalah Nasri’s. The classy Syrian singer has prepared a compilation of her best and most popular songs in Lebanon – Albawaba.com
