The 14th annual
Fes Festival of World Sacred Music
6 – 14 June 2008

Friday, June 6^th 
Bab Makina 8:30 pm
Jessye Norman (USA), with the Regional Lyric Orchestra Avignon Province (France). Conducting: Rachael Worby (USA)

Saturday, June 7^th 
Batha Museum 4:30 pm
Ghada Shbéïr (Lebanon) Songs of the Eastern Christian Churches

Bab Makina 8:30 pm
"Night of African-American and Sufi songs "
Spiritual / Hymns / Qawwali / Gospel
Faiz Ali Faiz (Pakistan) ensemble with and Bernice Johnson Reagon and the Sacred Sound Ensemble (USA)

Sunday, June 8^th  
Batha Museum 4:30 pm
Mari Boine (Norway) - Sacred Songs of Sami Scandinavian Far North

Bab El Makina 8:30 pm
"Christian and Muslim Homage to Mary"
Ai Kindi ensemble with Sheikh Hamza Shakour, the Munshid of the Great Umayyad Mosque and the Choir of Greece - Dir. JJ Weiss (Syria - Greece - France)

Monday, June 9^th 
Batha Museum 4:30 pm
Thanh Huong (Vietnam): Traditional and sacred songs

Bab Makina 8:30 pm
Company Belen Maya (Spain) "Dibujos" Flamenco dance

Tuesday, June 10^th 
Batha Museum 4:30 pm
Tartit Women's Ensemble (Mali) folk and sacred songs of the Tuareg

Bab MaKina 8H30 pm
"Panti Pusaka Budaya" Ensemble: Sacred Traditional Dances of Bali / Indonesia

Wednesday, June 11^th 
Batha Museum 4:30 pm
Ysaÿe Quartet (France): the Last 7 Words of Christ (J. Haydn) / Text: Michel Serres – Narrator: Michael Lonsdale

Thursday, June 12^th  
Batha Museum 4:30 pm
The Roza Enflorese (Belgium) - Sephardic sacred and traditional songs

Bab Makina 8:30 pm
Abdelwahab Doukali (Morocco)

Friday, June 13^th 
Batha Museum 4:30 pm
Cantus Colln (Germany): Around JS Bach / Spiritual Paths (Buxtehude - J. Rosenmüller - JS Bach) - Dir Konrad Junghanel

Bab Makina 8:30 pm
Mohamed Abdou (Saudi Arabia)

Saturday, June 14
Batha Museum 4:30 pm
Madhup Mudghal (India): The Bakhti devotional songs

Bab Makina 8:30 pm  
Ismael Lô (Senegal) with the Brotherhood Hamadcha of Fez (Morocco)
"From Dakar to Fez: from heart to soul"

The changes happen by those, men and women, who initiate them. Their actions are portrayed, such as rays of light, in the everyday life.  They are, these men and women, famous or little known, whom we wishe to invite this year for their testimony. Their examples and achievements are like traces of light.  They can act in the field of spirituality, art, economy, or politics.  Their actions and spirit in which these are accomplished can produce out of this sources of inspiration or examples, a path to follow.  Persomnalities from East and west, of diverse cultures and  faiths, will itllustrate by their personal itineraries such an aproach and will participate in the Encounters of Fez that will spread for five mornings.

  Artistic Exhibitions and films.

4:00 pm  Film Screaning “Where is the house of my friend” presented by Abbas Kiarostami (Iran).

Exhibition
«The Orient in a Mirror» is the theme of the Photography Exhibition that will be held at the hall of Museum Dar Bat’ha, open throughout the Festival duration.  A magnificent collection of excellent work by Roland and Sabrine Michaud.