Festivals

Michelle & Noel Keserwany / Rayess Bek / Band Jaze’e

Friday, Jun 3, 2011
8:30pm -> 12:30am
Beirut Music and Art Festival (BMAF) - 2011

Beirut Souks

Michelle & Noel Keserwany
8:30 pm – 9:45 pm

Publicity students, Michelle & Noel Keserwany, who grew up in an artistic background, have been constantly inspired by society and its marvels. Two sisters, who work as freelance illustrators along with their studies, are extremely similar yet each one of them tends to be distinct in her own way. Whatever they absorb from around them is later on externalized in artistic form.
After the accidental success of “Jagal el Usek”, that gathered around 350,000 views on YouTube, the sisters released their debut album Bel Ghalat, an artwork that turned out to be a mixture of lyrics, music, illustration and design, through which they expressed their point of view about the Lebanese society in a very sarcastic manner.

Rayess Bek
10:00 pm – 10:50 pm

Back in 1997, Wael Koudaih pioneered rapping in Arabic in the Middle East. After founding the group (against the current), he launched a solo project geared toward addressing political realities under his new rapper name, Rayess Bek.
In 2006, the UN commissioned him with producing a song for the international body’s program of action concerning disabled persons. Fed up with the re-surfacing violence that erupted in July 2006, Rayess Bek moved to Paris, where he continues to work full-time on his music.

Band Jaze’e
11:05 pm – 12:35 pm

Oriental band, embracing oriental and Lebanese spirits, heart and core. Featuring Georges Nehme on vocals and six professional musicians, Band Jaz2ee’s repertoire includes works of Lebanese celebrities such as: Fayrouz and Rahbani brothers, Ziad Rahbani, Zaki nassif, wadih al-safi, etc…

Special Feature:15,000 LL. for all 3 shows that night.