RABIH ABOU-KHALIL GROUP FEATURING RICARDO RIBEIRO - 'EM POTRUGUES' - PART OF ATLANTIC WAVES FESTIVAL
Date: 9 November 2008
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: ST JOHN' S, SMITH SQUARE, St John' s Church is one of London' s most beautiful concert halls, st behind the Houses of Parliament and Westmenster Abbey. Tube: Westminster, St James’s Park, Victoria., Buses: 3 and 87, Car: Free parking on Sundays Map link below
Rabih Abou-Khalil oud
Ricardo Ribeiro vocals
Luciano Biondini accordion
Michel Godard tuba, bass
Jarrod Cagwin percussion
Master Lebanese oud (Arabic lute) player and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil takes inspiration from the poems of contemporary Portuguese writers Mário Raínho, Tiago Torres da Silva, Rui Manuel and the older José Luís Gordo, and from the free-spirited, amazingly mature voice of young Portuguese Fado star, Ricardo Ribeiro. Still in his twenties, Ribeiro is an authentic singer rooted fully in tradition but open to adventure in new directions.
Weaving music around words and words around music, with long term partners Luciano Biondini (accordion), Michel Godard (tuba and bass) and Jarrod Cagwin (percussion), the warm sounds of oud and voice create moods that are nothing less than exquisitely beautiful, where the saudade of Fado and the yearning of Abou-Khalil’s Middle Eastern melodic sense combine to create a completely new music – a kind of imagined folklore that seems to have existed all along.
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