Arab Music Institute 22 Ramsis St. Tel 2574 3373 Fri 7, 8pm: The Arab Music Heritage Ensemble.
Beit Al-Sehemi Al-Gamaliya, Al-Darb Al-Asfar Alley, Al-Muiz St, Tel 2591 3391 Every Sunday, 7.30pm: The Nile Troupe for Folk Instruments, conducted by Abdel-Rahman Al-Shafaai performs dances and songs from Upper Egypt on mizmar, tablaand other traditional musical instruments.
Cairo Opera House Gezira Exhibition Grounds, Tel 2737 0602/2736 *Main Hall Thur 6 & Fri 7, 8pm: The Cairo Opera BalletCompany features the young choreographers concert. Sat 8, 8pm: The Cairo Symphony Orchestra. Sun 9, 8pm: The National Arab Music Ensemble. Mon 10, 8pm: The Finnish Musical Bridge 2014, accompanied by the Cairo Opera Orchestra, conducted by Nayeir Nagui. Tue 11, 8pm: The Talents Development Centreconcert. Thur 13, 8pm: The Egyptian Art Day celebration. *Small Hall Thur 6, 8pm: Piano recital by an Austrian pianist. Sun 9, 8pm: Al-Nour Wa Al-Amal (The Light and Hope) Orchestra. Mon 10, 8pm: The Talents Development Centreconcert. *Al-Hanager Arts Centre The 4th Hakawy International Arts Festival for Children (12-18 March) Wed 12, 11am & 6pm: Frogzshow from the USA. (5pm) the opening ceremony from Egypt (Al-Hanager Centre Entrance). Thur 13, 11am & 6pm:Frogzshow from the USA. (5pm) Yummmshow from the UK.
Cairo Jazz Club 197, 26th July St, Agouza. Tel 3345 9939 Thur 6, 9pm: Ashara Gharbyand Salalembands. Fri 7, 9pm: Mayounahand ZalatDJs. Sat 8, 9pm: Sahraband with Aragidgroup present Nubian Fadeka music and songs with Farah Al-Masri, Mustafa Herkiand Gamal Hassan. Nubian music is further distinguished from other Egyptian styles by its use of the pentatonic scale and of particular and characteristic rhythms. Aragidis one of the few active ensembles playing the traditional music of Nubia. Sun 9, 9pm: Michelle Rounds. Mon 10, 9pm: Moneimand ShawkyDJs. Wed 12, 9pm: Disco Night features BluFrank. Thur 13, 9pm: The 6th Cairo Jazz Festival Beyond Stage features Uss WeLazqband and OUMband (Morocco).
Doum Cultural Foundation 13, Al Fardous St, via Shahin St, Al Agouza, Tel 3760 4533, 3760 4522/3749 9110 *Qena Governorate Hall Thur 6-Mon 10, 7pm: Doum Foundation 1st Festival of Haky (narration) Arts.
Al-Ghouri Caravansary Mohamed Abdou St, off Al-Moaiz St with Al-Azhar, Tel 2514 7475 every Sat, Mon & Wed, (8pm, free admission) Al-Tanoura whirling dervishes perform to live Sufi music.
Al-Gumhouriya Theatre 12 Al-Gumhouriya St, Abdin, Tel 2390 7707 Thur 6, 8pm: Al-Enshad Al-Dinitroupe plays religious songs and hymns. . Sat 8, 8pm: Ahl Al-Maghna Choir. Tue 11 & Wed 12, 8pm: The Cairo Opera Companypresents Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's Susanna's Secretopera. Thur 13, 8pm: Awtar(Strings) band features Amr Abdel-Moneim.
El Mastaba Centre for Egyptian Folk Music 30 A El-Balaqsa St, Abdeen, Downtown. Tel 011 50995354 *Al Dammah Theatre for Free Arts Thur 6, 8pm: The Bedouin Jerry-Can band comprises semi-nomadic musicians, poets, storytellers and coffee grinders from the Egyptian desert of North Sinai. Blending the simsimiyya (a traditional Egyptian lyre) with desert flutes and reed pipes, the band performs traditional melodies accompanied by infectious rhythms played on tablas, frame drums and clay jugs, as well as ammunition boxes and jerry can percussion salvaged from the former battlegrounds of the Six-day War of 1967.
ALEXANDRIA
Alexandria Opera House (Sayed Darwish Theatre) Fouad St, Mahatat Al-Raml, Alexandria, Tel 03/486 5106 Sat 8 & Sun 9, 8pm: The Modern Dance Theatre Companypresents its latest production Mawlanashow, an adaptation of Ibrahim Eissa's novel carrying the same name and directed by Monadel Antar. Tue 11, 8pm: Al-Nour Wa Al-Amal (The Light and Hope) Orchestra. Thur 13, 8pm: Alexandria Opera Companyfor Arab Music and Singing.
