{"id":14071,"date":"2011-08-09T21:09:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T04:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=14071"},"modified":"2011-08-09T21:09:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T04:09:28","slug":"9th-oud-festival-tzavta-august-23-26-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=14071","title":{"rendered":"9th Oud Festival Tzavta: August 23 – 26, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zehava Ben\/Photo: Peni Selook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 9th Oud Festival will take place at Tzavta from August 23 \u2013 26, 2011. Initiated by artistic director Eli Grunfeld, the festival reflects different musical traditions, merging folk melodies, classics and original compositions.<\/p>\n

Zehava Ben will open the festival with \u201cThe Golden Oud\u201d \u2013 an evening of hits from her albums. Ben will be accompanied by Eran Zamir on oud; Hezi David \u2013 musical producer and keyboard; Ofir Grady \u2013 drums; Meir Shitrit \u2013 guitar; Sahar Ank \u2013 bass guitar; Yossi Shoval \u2013 darbuka. Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 21:00.<\/p>\n

The New Andalusian Orchestra will perform a festive concert \u201cA Love Concert for the Darbuka and Oud\u201d with songs from their new album. The full orchestra will perform arrangements for classic works and songs from Morocco, Egypt, and Algeria. The concert will also feature original compositions by orchestra members, including \u201cJaffa Waves\u201d by oud player Elias\u00a0 Wakileh. Guest vocalists are Etti Bitton, and the paytanit Ziva Attar. The orchestra will be conducted by Tom Cohen. Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 21:00.<\/p>\n

Maktoub \u2013 a literary musical performance inspired by the Iris Eliya Cohen\u2019s bestselling novel Maktoub. The performance will include staged scenes from the book, with music and songs as a soundtrack to the book, and the oud at the center. Participants: Iris Eliya-Cohen \u2013 author, actress; Eli Eliyahu \u2013 poet; Gavriel Hadar \u2013 actor, singer; Eitan Baruch \u2013 oud. Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 20:30.<\/p>\n

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Shalom Mor \u201cTabilsi \u2013 Shiraz \u2013 Tel Aviv\u201d a musical tour from Georgia through Persia to Israel with originals and folk tunes. Guests include: Asi Israelof; Michel Gurialshvili; Shalom Mor \u2013 Oud, Persian tar (lute), guitar and vocals; Oded Melkner \u2013 guitar; Golan Zuskovich \u2013 bass guitar; Eyal Sela \u2013 wind instruments; Stav Nahum \u2013 drums and percussion; Orit Halel \u2013 vocals; Guy Tiram \u2013 oud; Arrangements and musical direction \u2013 Lani Ben Bassat. Thursday, August 25, 21:00.<\/p>\n

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Saturday Songs Project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The closing concert will be a premiere performance of the \u201cShabbat Songs\u201d project. Well known Shabbat songs Yedid Nefesh, Eshet Hayil, and Lekha Dodi, hosted by Roy Levi of Shotei Hanevua. Shabbat Songs is an internet project initiated by Rabbi Roni Eilon-Hirsh. Participants: Rabbi Roni Eilon-Hirsh, CEO of the \u201cShamayim\u201d NGO, with Dvar Torah and other texts; Elisaf Bashari \u2013 oud, string instruments; Yaron Suriano \u2013 bass; Avi Agbaba \u2013 drums and percussion; Yanir Kilinsky \u2013 string instruments; Ofer Shechtman \u2013 guitar and vocals; guest artist Rabbi Dudu Deri \u2013 vocals; Roy Levi \u2013 musical direction, guitar, vocals. Friday, August 26, 2011 at 12:00.<\/p>\n

Ticket prices are between 50NIS and 90NIS, to order call: 03-6950156\/7, or online tickets.tzavta.co.il. For further information consult the Tzavta site: www.tzavta.co.il.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 9th Oud Festival will take place at Tzavta from August 23 \u2013 26, 2011. Initiated by artistic director Eli Grunfeld, the festival reflects different musical traditions, merging folk melodies, classics and original compositions. Zehava Ben will open the festival with \u201cThe Golden Oud\u201d \u2013 an evening of hits from her albums. Ben will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}