Bahrain's 10 Best Art and Culture Events in Summer 2014 — theculturetrip.com

Another contribution to the Bahrain Summer Festival will be the much-awaited musical performance of internationally acclaimed Iraqi singer, musician and composer Ilham Al-Madfai. Beginning as a guitarist, he and his band are said to be the first in the Arab world to utilise ‘modern’ instruments, including guitar, drums, bass and piano, which allowed him to create a distinctive style that crosses modern sounds with traditional Arabic folk songs. Attracted to jazz, and later discovering the Spanish guitar, his music gained in popularity and made a huge contribution to the development of the Arab world’s musical heritage and development, bringing new life to traditional songs. This concert in Bahrain will present his distinctive style of Oriental latin and jazz which have made him one of the pioneers of Arabic music and gained him a devoted following across the world.

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