03 March 2019
East Riffa House’s First Spring of Culture’s Music Concert, Dar Al Riffa Al-Sagheera First Evening of Sweet Traditional Folk Music
On 2 March 2019, the 14th Edition of the Spring of Culture Festival’s first evening of sweet traditional folk music organized by Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities Kicked off at Dar Riffa, and was by Al-Dar Al-Sagheera Music Band.
During the evening of music concert, the band played most gracefully a selection of popular well-known acoustic heritage traditions, reflecting sailors’ challenge and hope, in search for the precious “pearls”. The audience enjoyed Bahrain’s most original and characteristic musical genre, fidjeri, or “sea music.” These songs, consisting of an all-male chorus and solo singer with minimal percussion, often accompanied specific and common actions, like rowing, setting sails, and pulling up the anchor.
Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities continues its strenuous efforts to safeguard the Kingdom’s intangible heritage and works on its promotion and spreading, through these popular folk music evenings and concerts. Worth to mention that Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities inaugurated Dar Al Riffa in December 2017, a year baptized as “Our year of Archaeology”, which was dedicated to establish a vivid and fervent sustainable cultural infrastructure as planned and masterminded by Bahrain Culture Authority
Worth to mention that The 14th Edition of the Spring of Culture Festival, running until April 201. To stay up to date on all festival news, we invite you to follow us on our official account (@springofculture) on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and other uploading smart phone devices. You can find the all the details on the various events and activities and register in any of the various workshops by visiting (www.springofculture.org).
