Said Yassin (Cairo)
The summer season in Egypt witnessed the establishment of many concerts in which singers from Arab countries participated, and it came as a strong recovery after two years of banning concerts due to the “Corona” virus, especially within the “Mahki Castle” festival in Cairo.
There is a difference
Nadia Mustafa, who participated with Hani Shaker in one of the “Mahka El-Qalaa” concerts, confirmed that she enjoyed the concert, while expressing her annoyance about some of the exaggerated prices, which only a limited group of the audience can buy, and demanded that the singers reduce their wages.
Critic Sayed Mahmoud Salam described what happened on the castle grounds as joy, music and singing, because the audience is looking for authenticity wherever it is found.
Then came the Ali Al-Hajjar concert, with which the festival audience interacted, reviving the open air concerts, as well as the concerts of Medhat Saleh, Nesma Abdel Aziz, Mustafa Hajjaj, Hanan Madi, Mai Kamal and Ahmed Jamal.
The full number, Nawal Al Zoghbi’s concert, raised the “full number” banner at the “Citadel Festival”, which expressed her great enjoyment of singing on the castle stage for the first time amid a great interaction from the audience, and confirmed that she was feeling great longing for the Egyptian audience.
investment
Music historian Muhammad Abdullah Mutawa said that in recent years, the northern coast has become a haven for the majority of singers to present their concerts, which are crowded with audiences of all kinds. Mutawa explained that investment plays a big role in concerts, just as it happens in football matches.
The open majority
Critic Magda Morris believes that the audience of the castle season is larger than any other audience for the music and singing concerts held by the Ministry of Culture.
She commended the effort made by the Ministry of Culture to provide this opportunity to the public of different groups, and called for more seasons and singing and musical festivals in all governorates to support fine and beautiful art.
Generalization
The musician Hossam Abdel Moneim called for the distribution of what the “Citadel Festival” offers in various regions, and also to move to the remote provinces, including the archaeological ones, which can receive local, Arab and foreign interest, where folk art concerts can be presented to tourists in Luxor and Aswan and included in the festival’s concerts.
other coasts
The composer Madian believes that the North Coast concerts, which began years ago and attracted Egyptian and Arab singing stars, reached their climax this year and brought back the concerts that were the talk of society during the nineties of the last century, as was the case in the “TV Nights” and “City Lights” parties. He hoped that the concerts would extend to the Red Sea coast in Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh, El Gouna, Dahab and others.
city lights
The historian and music critic Ahmed Al-Samahi called on those responsible for culture in Egypt to return to the “Lights of the City” and “TV Nights” concerts in a new and modern way, and to be managed by a group of music and singing lovers, and the parties include Egyptian and Arab singers.
At the beginning of the summer season, Amr Diab revived a party attended by thousands in the new city of El Alamein, and Mohamed Mounir held a party in the Sidi Gaber area in Alexandria, after 10 years of absence from concerts there, and Kazem El Saher returned after an absence of 10 years through two concerts in the North Coast and the Opera House. .
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