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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2010 16:21:33 GMT
Last night was lucky enough to be present for a fabulous concert of Iraqi music at the Royal Albert Hall. Veteran singer and guitarist Ilham Al Madfrai and young ud player Khyam Allami could have kept going all night as far as I'm concerned. Would have been great on TV but unfortunately the BBC did not see fit to film it. Still, you can get the radio version on the iPlayer till next week. I urge you to check it out www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00t6vhr/BBC_Proms_2010_Prom_33_Ilham_Al_Madfai_and_Friends/ |
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Post by Michael Messer on Aug 10, 2010 20:22:05 GMT
Thanks for that Stevie. What a great concert! Lucy Duran (the lady who introduced the concert) does a great radio show 'World Roots' every week, well worth hearing.
Shine On
Michael.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2010 0:42:15 GMT
you're welcome Michael, though it's actually Sam (aka LR) here lol. Stevie had just posted in the Republic thread!
Anyway, yeah it was a great show, just one of those perfect nights that come together from time to time. It's worth pointing out that it came about as the result of a new BBC project to put up and coming musicians together with established artists from similar cultural backgrounds, called World Routes Academy. A great advert for the BBC and the Proms, and nice to see plenty of Iraqis in the crowd. Having said that, the audience itself was rather smaller than usual for a Prom (even at that time of night) though we made up for it with some noise!
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Post by Michael Messer on Aug 11, 2010 8:42:24 GMT
Sam, I do apologise!!!! It was a slip of the typing finger. I know that you are Sam and Stevie is Stevie.
Shine On
Michael.
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Post by percythewonderant on Aug 11, 2010 15:47:49 GMT
Thanks for the link. Lovely stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2010 23:48:44 GMT
Sam, I do apologise!!!! It was a slip of the typing finger. I know that you are Sam and Stevie is Stevie. Shine On Michael. Hehehe no worries Michael! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2010 20:04:46 GMT
Hey Sam
I don't think i've ever heard any iraqi music before.
Wow its fantastic, some great stuff on there, such passion
Thanks for the link
I mis-read the thread 1st time and thought it said Iraqi Porn, which is probably as difficult to get hold of as the music ;D
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2010 13:24:13 GMT
Haha yeah I wouldn't recommend googling that  Anyway, this is just a final bump for this thread, as the concert will soon be off the iplayer. Listen while you can |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2010 12:30:50 GMT
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