"‘The Greatest Egyptian & American Songs’ brings you an exquisite selection of jazz and pop classics from the golden era of music. From Cole Porter to Abdel Wahab to George Gershwin to Fareed El-Atrash to Jerome Kern to Kamal El-Taweel. A night of nostalgia, music, and escape with the beautiful guitar and vocal sounds of Ali Omar El-Farouk and Harfoush.��
AHMED HARFOUSH
https://ahmedfharfoush.wixsite.com/harfoush
Ahmed Harfoush is an Egyptian jazz and pop vocalist based in London and performs around the world. Harfoush received training at Mountview Academy for Theatre Arts in London and the American University in Cairo.
He established the HarfousH Jazz Band in 2015 and performed at London’s Royal Albert Hall, Dubai Opera, Cairo Opera House, the Giza Pyramids, the Manasterly Palace in Manial, the Egyptian Art Academy in Rome, the Egyptian Embassies in London, Berlin, Melbourne and Vienna, Skopje Opera House with the Macedonia Philharmonic, MIPIM Conference in Cannes, Hamburg’s Jazz Cotton Club, the International Music Festival in Slovenia, Damascus’ MarMar Jazz Club with the New York Chris Byars Jazz Quartet, Memo Jazz Club in Milano, Athens, Budapest, Larnaca, Prague and with many bands and orchestras around the United Kingdom including the 2018, 2019 and 2022 London Jazz Festival.
ALI OMAR EL-FAROUK
www.aliomarelfarouk.com
Ali Omar El-Farouk is an Egyptian/Canadian guitarist and oud player based out of Montreal and Cairo. He is an active performer, teacher and composer with a professional career spanning more than two and a half decades which includes performances in Egypt, Canada, U.S.A., Turkey, Spain, Italy, Thailand, and cruise ships touring the Bahamas and the British Isles. His versatile musical vocabulary is a result of his privileged exposure to both eastern and western cultures. He spent years studying jazz music, traditional Arabic/Middle-Eastern music, flamenco music, and western classical music.
He has worked in jazz groups, rock/blues/pop bands, all the way to Middle Eastern and flamenco ensembles. His performances include the Festival Du Monde Arabe, Festival Nuits D’Afrique, Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques Festival, and Festival Sefarad in Montreal, the Feria del Libro Festival in Spain, as well as the Manial Palace Festival, the Jazz Mania Festival, and the Cairo Jazz Festival in Cairo.
His first album ‘Ela Mataa?’ was recorded in Montreal and released in 2019. He holds a Licentiate degree in Jazz Performance from McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, one of Canada’s top music institutes, and a Bachelor’s degree with Distinction in Jazz Studies from Concordia University in Montreal. He is as passionate about performing live as he as about teaching music and he teaches music at his own studio and online.
He was the 2022 recipient of the ’Friends of Manial Palace Museum Association’ award in Egypt, which was presented to him by His Highness Prince Abbas Hilmi and the great classical pianist maestro Ramzi Yassa."
-Doors open at 7:30, concert starts at 08:00
-Shared tables
-Ticket price: 200 LE + 1 minimum order per person(not included in the ticket price)
-Tickets are non-refundable
-You can purchase your ticket from the branch itself, or through the following online link:
https://www.easykash.net/LGO9961
