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Video about the city of Fes
Photographic impression of Fes (photos by Travel Muse. My photography site www.photo4gift.com)
About Fes in short
About the festival:
Festival program
Concept of the Festival
Practical information:
How to reach Fes
Where to stay in Fes
Enriching experiences in Fes and its surroundings (Caligraphy classes, henna, mountain trip, Sahara trip, etc.)
The prices in Fes
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About Fes
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As soon as you enter through the main gate of Boujloud into Fes medina it seems that you instantly go back in time. No surprise because Fes is the oldest Moroccan city and its medina Fes al Bali is the largest living medieval city in the Islamic world.
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Nobody can prepare you for the first time visit to Fes medina. While travelling through the maze of narrow alleys crammed with shops, covered bazaars, fountains, medersas (theological colleges), mosques you experience all the intensity of the place. It is literally a feast for all the senses. You hear moudzin's call for prayer "Alah Akbar" (God is Great); "Balak Balak" (Attention) a donkey rider asks you to give the way so that he can pass with the boxes of coca cola bottles. The sounds of arabic music melodies from shops, "Labas, Kulshi Beher" greetings, sales promotion calls, gnawa musicians, craftmen working, kids' joyful chants. The world of scents is also extremely rich here. The smell of rose petals, fresh mint and oranges, coriander, spices is mixed with a strong smell of meat, tanneries, donkeys' dung. And how many different flavours...dried fruit, Moroccan sweets, fresh goat cheese, diverse types of breads, doghnuts, olives, pickles, meat broshettes, etc. ...Medina's life is real life's movie, which captures all your attention. While sitting in a medina's outside caffe, you can watch local men dressed in djelabas drinking tea or coffee, women rushing for shopping with their covered faces, negotiating tourists, sellers with their stock...If not the shops of mobile operators and sattelite antenas you may be forgiven for wondering which century you live in. And this is the charm of Fes, so different, so back in time, and so enchanting...
About the prices in Fes
If you divide Moroccan dirhams by 10, you get EUR(For instance, 40 DH=about4 EUR)
Food
A Moroccan dish in a local caffe costs around 40 DH. Day menu(starter,main course and desert) around 70 DH
Bagette sandwich around 15-18 DH.
Moroccan salad around 8 DH
Different types of Moroccan bread for just a few dirhams.
Cup of coffee 8-10 DH, tea 5 DH, bottle of water 6,5 (DH)
Fresh fruit salad in new town 12-15 DH .
Taxi
Taxi from medina to new town around 7 DH, from train station to medina around 10 DH. Depending on the meter.
Souveniers
Scarves-from 20-100 DH, depending on the quality.
Moroccan ceramics(cups, salad dishes, vases) around 100-200 DH, depending on size.
Moroccan dresses around 150 DH.
Chic kaftans around 2000 DH.
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Program of Sacred Music Festival 29 May-6 June
Save your time while booking tickets to the concerts you are interested in advance, ticket booking and delivery to your hotel contact@travelmuse.eu.
The program of sacred music festival (29 May-6 June):
Prices of festival concerts.
"Fes in the city" concerts are free of charge
More about the concept of festival and its performances
Messages of festival organizers
The Spirit of Fez Foundation is organizing the fifteenth edition of the World Sacred Music Festival with the theme The Tree of Life. The life of the festival is gaining in maturity and quality year after year, constantly innovative, and always faithful to its message: bringing peoples and religions closer by means of the sacred. It is a message that affects everyone, because sacred music and the reflection it arouses don’t belong to any time or religion and are addressed to all,
without distinction.
In Fez, the tree of World Sacred Music, which was planted by the eponymous Festival 15 years ago is a tree of energy, melodies and beauty, whose roots sink into the strata of the past and whose powerful branches now soar in the sky. This tree takes its strength from the fertile soil of the converging cultures of the West and the East, North and South.
In this edition, which celebrates its fifth anniversary, the Festival de Fez offers particularly privileged moments: an exceptional opening concert in the form of a tribute by the great Lebanese composer and musician Marcel Khalifé to the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwiche, who recently passed away; two creations: «Strings and Souls” of the famous jazz violinist Didier
Lockwood, and his meeting with the Moroccan singer Ihsane R’Miki and «Melos - Songs of the Mediterranean «, where the Iranian percussionist Keyvan Chemirani combines his drums with
chants of Greece, Morocco and Spain; Sami Yusuf, a young voice rising in the firmament of the Arab world and his songs imbued with faith; Marwa Wright, the queen of gospel and soul music of New Orleans; dance with the graceful Indian Shantall Shivalingappa; celestial trance of the Whirling Dervishes of Konya and, in the same evening - as a bridge between the ages
- the emergence of contemporary dance with the extraordinary Turkish choreographer Ziya Azazi, who rewrites in the light of the present the ancient girations of these dervishes; the fragile Souad Massi, full of soft melodies and for the first time on the African continent, closing the festival on a final invitation to travel, Loreena Mc Kennit, sublime muse songs inspired by Celtic legends of the world.
Not to mention here, because of the limited space available, the many other beautiful moments to be discovered on the main stage of Bab el Makina or under the old oak of the Batha Museum.
« One day, a man stopped in front of a tree. He saw leaves, branches, strange fruit.
To everyone, he asked what this tree and these fruits were. No gardener could answer: no one knew its name or origin. The man said to himself:
«I do not know this tree, nor understand it:
However, I know that since I first saw it , my heart and my soul have become fresh and green. So let’s put ourselves under its shade ».
Is it to the tree of World Sacred Music that the great Persian and mystic poet Rumi Djallaleddin wrote, when he composed these mysterious verses eight centuries ago?
Nobody knows ...
But this does not prevent anyone enjoying its beautiful and sensual softness! In Fez or anywhere else ..
The Spirit of Fez Foundation is organizing the fifteenth edition of the World Sacred Music Festival with the theme The Tree of Life. The life of the festival is gaining in maturity and quality year after year, constantly innovative, and always faithful to its message: bringing peoples and religions closer by means of the sacred. It is a message that affects everyone, because sacred music and the reflection it arouses don’t belong to any time or religion and are addressed to all,
without distinction.
In Fez, the tree of World Sacred Music, which was planted by the eponymous Festival 15 years ago is a tree of energy, melodies and beauty, whose roots sink into the strata of the past and whose powerful branches now soar in the sky. This tree takes its strength from the fertile soil of the converging cultures of the West and the East, North and South.
In this edition, which celebrates its fifth anniversary, the Festival de Fez offers particularly privileged moments: an exceptional opening concert in the form of a tribute by the great Lebanese composer and musician Marcel Khalifé to the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwiche, who recently passed away; two creations: «Strings and Souls” of the famous jazz violinist Didier
Lockwood, and his meeting with the Moroccan singer Ihsane R’Miki and «Melos - Songs of the Mediterranean «, where the Iranian percussionist Keyvan Chemirani combines his drums with
chants of Greece, Morocco and Spain; Sami Yusuf, a young voice rising in the firmament of the Arab world and his songs imbued with faith; Marwa Wright, the queen of gospel and soul music of New Orleans; dance with the graceful Indian Shantall Shivalingappa; celestial trance of the Whirling Dervishes of Konya and, in the same evening - as a bridge between the ages
- the emergence of contemporary dance with the extraordinary Turkish choreographer Ziya Azazi, who rewrites in the light of the present the ancient girations of these dervishes; the fragile Souad Massi, full of soft melodies and for the first time on the African continent, closing the festival on a final invitation to travel, Loreena Mc Kennit, sublime muse songs inspired by Celtic legends of the world.
Not to mention here, because of the limited space available, the many other beautiful moments to be discovered on the main stage of Bab el Makina or under the old oak of the Batha Museum.
« One day, a man stopped in front of a tree. He saw leaves, branches, strange fruit.
To everyone, he asked what this tree and these fruits were. No gardener could answer: no one knew its name or origin. The man said to himself:
«I do not know this tree, nor understand it:
However, I know that since I first saw it , my heart and my soul have become fresh and green. So let’s put ourselves under its shade ».
Is it to the tree of World Sacred Music that the great Persian and mystic poet Rumi Djallaleddin wrote, when he composed these mysterious verses eight centuries ago?
Nobody knows ...
But this does not prevent anyone enjoying its beautiful and sensual softness! In Fez or anywhere else ..
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