Live Music

Mashrou’ Leila Live at the Baalbeck International Festival

Sunday, Jul 15, 2012
8:00pm -> 11:00pm
Baalbeck International Festival

The Baalbeck Temples

Born of a nocturnal encounter at the American University of Beirut in 2008, Mashrou’ Leila is a seven-member band that fuses the craftiness of a music workshop with the punch of stadium rock. With their distinct approach to storytelling and orchestration, they have crafted some of the most melancholic ballads and raucous anthems in contemporary alternative Arabic music, and went on to perform them live at sold-out venues in Lebanon, Cairo, Amman, Paris, Amsterdam, and Geneva.

Their eponymous debut album and the 7al Romacy EP unfold like cinematographic fictions starring lovesick characters in desolate motels or wandering insomniacs in ghostly cities. At times quirky and playful, at others bitter and somber, the songs demonstrate the band’s great versatility in dealing with musical form, narrative, and social issues.

Special Formula:Tickets are sold at Virgin Ticketing Box Office: Downtown Beirut, ABC Achrafieh, ABC Dbayeh, City Mall Dora, Le Mall Sin el-Fil, Tripoli, Faqra Club, Saida (Al Ittihad Bookshop), Byblos Venue and Damasquino Mall – Damascus
also at the entrance of the Baalbeck Acropolis

Transport arrangements to Baalbeck are organized with:
Wild Discovery (by pullman) tel : 01 565606 / 71 202828
Bus ticket selling:
Virgin Megastores (all branches) tel: 01 999666 ext 101
Wild Discovery (all branches) tel: 01 565606 / 71 202828
Point of Departure from Greater Beirut:
Parking facing Virgin Megastores (DownTown).

Time:Departure times at 3:30pm and 5:30pm
Cost:Round trip ticket @ 15,000L.L per person

Special Feature:Tickets (standing): 50,000 LL