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Last Thursday of every month Planet Egypt Event

Sufi Meditation
Every Monday

Rumi Group:
Every First Friday of the Month

Silk Route's Arabian Cabaret
takes place each month bringing you music from the Middle East and featuring performers influenced by all forms of Arabian Dance.

Nights Out in London    So you want to see a show?

Arvin (Reza) World Music, Poetry and dance Organiser and director
email: worldmusicuk@gmail.com

SOAS World Music Summer School REGULAR WORLD MUSIC EVENTS
For more details & booking form see www.soas.ac.uk/summermusicschool
Department of Music, School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
T 020 7898 4500 / E musicevents@soas.ac.uk

Turkish Nights Out with live music every Friday and Saturday, Istanbul Meze Bar, 100 Cleveland Street, W1

DJ Leon Parker
Hosts a regular night of world music, belly dance, and visuals monthly at Escape bar and twice monthly set doing Gypsy music at the Ritzy Brixton . If link does not work try here. He has a play list on Calabash which a fair trade world music download site . He reccommends Charlie Gillett's very good web site called Sound Of The World . This site is useful to put up information about gig or reviews and find out about events

Read his edited review of Planet Egypt October 2006

 

2010

 

July

Rango: "Bride of the Zar" UK Tour July 2010 (see cd info)
All over UK July 2010. Book tickets quickly as last time they sold out. Note that they will feature devotional songs (Zaar and perhaps Mawlid). This is a cultural explosion not to be missed. London loves them and went crazy.

Tour Brothers of the Baladi UK tour 16th-28th July . At this time I don't have any/few contact details other than those of the band sorry!
Sun 25th Darbucka in London

25 July Silk route in Balham

 

August

Ramadan Karim to all our Muslim Friends
Many events taking place see here

1-3 Caracalla Zayed and the Dream (probably based on Sheikh Zayed Al Maktoum re establishing the Emirates....at the London Coliiseum. I expect their usual lavish production......

22 Aug Silk route in Balham

 

September

Saturday 4 September 2010 Oriental Dreams - Arabian Dance, Music and Poetry at The Bloomsbury Theatre, London . This very special debut features Chalf Hassan, Melanie Norman, Khaled Mahmoud, Mercedes Nieto , Shafeek Ibrahim , and the return of Tracey Jones .
The Arab Quarter Band will include the highly regarded Bashir Abdel Aal on ney, the famous and most sought after Emile Bassili on violin, the talented George Dergham on keyboards, the respected Mazin Abu Sayf on accordion, plus other guest musicians to join the versatile multi-instrumentalist Chalf Hassan on oud, vocals and tabla.

 

19 Sep Silk route in Balham

 

October

9th and 10th Hossam & Serena Ramzy workshops:
9th
The    Pearl  In  My  Heart  ” A Classical Egyptian Dance Workshop.
10th
Lucy  The   Magnificent ” Drum solo
At Dance Attic Studios
386 North End Rd.
Fulham
SW6 1LY
For more info: ramzystore@btconnect.com
01342410800www.hossamramzy.com

31 Oct Silk route in Balham

 

November

28 Nov  Silk route in Balham

 

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