The US-based Spanish singer, poet, composer, and music producer Concha Buika, known for her characteristic fusion of flamenco with copla, jazz, soul, and African polyrhythms, brings her new show to Abu Dhabi for a one-off performance. She has a stunning [ ... ]
The second concert in a series that aims to promote wellbeing and positivity through music, this one featuring celebrated father-daughter duo Srinivas and Sharanya in a retro Bollywood show with R.D.Burman-Kishore Kumar classics plus some of their own film songs [ ... ]
A pretty cool lineup for the UAE graduation concert– "the ultimate afterparty", as the blurb puts it, and it's open to the public too. with headliners Myriam Fares, Ahmed Saad, Ayed and DJ Aseel. Acclaimed artist, Myriam Fares, known as [ ... ]
Live EDM DJing with a genuinely great bill. Headliners are Paul van Dyk (above) and genre-hopping duo Infected Mushroom; support comes from Weekend Heroes (hi-energy progressive house and techno) and the excellent progressive PsyTrance project Invisible Reality. Top local lad DJ [ ... ]
In this Sharjah Art Foundation lecture performance, Inge Thomson will be performing excerpts from projects that have had an impact on her outlook as an artist and musician, while also sharing some of her thoughts along the way. Inge has [ ... ]
The intelligent networking session for creative peers is back after its summer break with an extended evening session – a social (with private bar) for members and guests (5.30 to 8.30) followed by the meat of the evening, a panel discussion [ ... ]
Organised by Sharjah Art Foundation in collaboration with Kamilya Jubran’s platform Zamkana, this participatory public seminar explores the way the oud is used and played by women artists from around the world. Five renowned oud players from different geographic, historical [ ... ]
Two days of participatory performance, workshops, panel sessions and networking aimed at "music professionals, artists and enthusiasts" and focussing on the music business for independent artists – it "aims to inspire the next generation of composers, songwriters, performers, and music [ ... ]
An immersive evening at the Theatre of Digital Art – Lina Ammor and her band deliver a "360° soul and rhythm & blues journey to the essence of love and life". She's actually very good, with that soul-singer's ability to [ ... ]
An immersive evening at the Theatre of Digital Art – digitised projected art ("the masterpieces of the greatest artists of the 20th century") is accompanied live by Soren Lyng Hansen on cello, double bass and piano. He is very good, [ ... ]
Open to all singers, musicians, instrumentalists and performers -- register from 6.30pm on the night, and it's first come first served. We thinks it's free for performers and audience ...
A pleasant way to spend a Sunday afternoon: chilled Latin beats by Jose Ramon on piano, zero alcohol cocktails from TVM @ The Fridge ...
The -award-winning Catalan-Spanish musicologist, music maker and conductor Jordi Savall is in town for a concert with a special focus on the Hispanic and Mediterranean musical heritage. Here he joins Maurice Pomerantz, Senior Director of NYUAD Institute and Professor of [ ... ]
An immersive evening at the Theatre of Digital Art – digitised projected art ("the masterpieces of the greatest artists of the 20th century") is accompanied live by Soren Lyng Hansen on cello, double bass and piano. He is very good, [ ... ]
Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi’s latest initiative is a three day festival (24-26 November) that aims to rediscover and celebrate traditional sacred music. Envisioned as “a testament to tradition, wisdom, and the power of togetherness”, it “aims to bring people closer [ ... ]
Musicians from islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans sing of their concerns for the changing seas. The concert brings together artists from Taiwan, Madagascar, Mauritius, Tokelau/Aotearoa (New Zealand), and Rapa Nui (Easter Island), performing songs they have co-written; the [ ... ]
The Gipsy Kings have been around since the 1970s, bringing the sounds of progressive pop-oriented flamenco music to a worldwide audience selling more than 14 million of their 'new flamenco' albums around the globe (their ninth studio album, Savor Flamenco [ ... ]
A Climate Concert hosted by UNCCD and the San Francisco-based nonprofit BayEcotarium for Cop28, featuring THE POLICE’s biggest hits (among them Roxanne, Don’t Stand So Close to Me, and Message in a Bottle) led by Stewart Copeland with four singers [ ... ]
The celebrated Egyptian pianist and composer has a talent for fusing contemporary Arabic melodies with Western influence that among other works has delivered more than 50 film and TV soundtracks and better than 20 awards. We're promised one of his [ ... ]
This new open-air musical event series (in a purpose-built venue that will "boast a stunning backdrop of Saadiyat Island vistas" – though otherwise we're not sure exactly where it is) kicks off with a concert from the best-selling American singer. [ ... ]
Ten-minute performance slots at The Fridge's well-equipped Alserkal Avenue warehouse venue. It's first-come first-served, but we'd expect some judicious balancing (if you're up for it, here's the online registration form); the gig starts at 7pm, so by our reckoning that's [ ... ]
"A transformative musical experience at 360°" featuring a virtuoso pianist playing modern classics by the likes of Hans Zimmer, Yanni Chryssomallis, and Yann Tiersen, accompanied by ToDA's 360° visuals ...
This new open-air musical event series (in a purpose-built venue that will "boast a stunning backdrop of Saadiyat Island vistas" – though otherwise we're not sure exactly where it is) continues with a concert from the iconic Iranian pop singer. [ ... ]
An evening of jazz at ToDA, which means immersive 360° visuals to accompany "four world-class jazzmen weave together jazz, pop & rock into a sonic earthquake", from Summertime and Moon river to Ain’t no sunshine ...
A new year of Alliance Française’s series of chamber recitals by locally based musicians continues with the return of soprano Isabel Cañada Luna, accompanied by two UAE Classical Talents newcomers – Enkhmaa Tuvshin (cello) and Pin-Chun Linis (piano) – in [ ... ]
An introduction to music generally and the orchestra in particular by Expo City Dubai’s all-female Firdaus Orchestra via a concert of classically arranged music for children aged 0 to 6 years old and their parents. The programme includes a range [ ... ]
Arash Behzadi plays his own compositions, "neoclassical musical narratives reflecting the ups and downs of life ... Passion, love, yearning, heartache and solace: all these feelings will come alive", accompanied by ToDA's 360° visuals. The excellent Soren Lyng Hansen guests [ ... ]
Three days of African vibes, described as "the UAE’s largest celebration of Africa’s rich and diverse cultures in all their vibrant expressions and representations"; we're promised "an unforgettable mosaic of performances, artistic, culinary and culturally immersive experiences". It's built around [ ... ]
A journey in 360° space through the worlds created by Hayao Miyazaki & Joe Hisaishi with the Armenian pianist Gayane Aslanyan. "In 60 minutes, she will transport you to a realm of wonder and fantasy where imagination knows no bounds [ ... ]
Arash Behzadi plays his own compositions, "neoclassical musical narratives reflecting the ups and downs of life ... Passion, love, yearning, heartache and solace: all these feelings will come alive", accompanied by ToDA's 360° visuals. The excellent Soren Lyng Hansen guests [ ... ]
South African soprano Pretty Yende and the Sardinian tenor Francesco Demuro come together for an Abu Dhabi Festival programme that includes extracts from Donizetti, Verdi, Bellini, and Gounod. Vincenzo Scalera (piano) accompanies. Programme: Puccini Che Gelida Manina, from La Bohème [ ... ]
An evening of music between the seafaring Arabian Gulf and Swahili coastal communities. Informal evening gatherings on three consecutive nights (15-17 March) will introduce the Kuwaiti diwaniya, where members from traditional groups including the Hamad Bin Hussein Ensemble and the [ ... ]
An evening of music between the seafaring Arabian Gulf and Swahili coastal communities. Informal evening gatherings on three consecutive nights (15-17 March) will introduce the Kuwaiti diwaniya, where members from traditional groups including the Hamad Bin Hussein Ensemble and the [ ... ]
An evening of music between the seafaring Arabian Gulf and Swahili coastal communities. Informal evening gatherings on three consecutive nights (15-17 March) will introduce the Kuwaiti diwaniya, where members from traditional groups including the Hamad Bin Hussein Ensemble and the [ ... ]
The first of a new ToDA series, featuring "select established artists from our region" in the space's signature 360° visual environment (giant screens and immersive projections all around you as the performers do their thing on the stage). The debut [ ... ]
The remarkable young German-Japanese pianist has been winning awards since she was seven; this performance sounds equally impressive in its own way, an autobiographical musical journey built around Chopin's 24 Preludes (the CD also has seven contemporary works to complete [ ... ]
The second evening of Alserkal Avenue's pop up food festival involving the Avenue's own F&B outlets and a mass of invited incomers. Should be fun, with DJ music including The Flip Side’s Shadi Megallaa.
A rare chance to catch the Swiss 'cellocomedy' duo outside Europe. Alain Schudel and Daniel Schaerer are excellent cellists in their own right, but on the stage with pieces by the likes of Mozart, Strauss, Holst and David Bowie (ok, [ ... ]
Prior to his Arts Center show tomorrow, the fiercely independent hip hop artist Oddisee will lead a talk in the NYUAD Gallery Reading Room that focuses on the DIY entrepreneurial approach to building his career – instead of pursuing record [ ... ]
Hans Zimmer is probably best known for some of the most listened-to soundtracks in the history of cinema – The Lion King, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight, Dune - but his live show is also pretty special. [ ... ]
The second of two spectacular shows where the multi-instrumentalist composer Hans Zimmer recreates some of his exceptional film scores – The Lion King, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight, Dune – arranged for live performance with a large [ ... ]
Alessandra Toni plays works by Zimmer, Chryssomallis, Einaudi and more, plus her own original repertoire, all accompanied by ToDA's 360° visuals.
"A rising star from Lebanon brings the essence of Palestine to life ... showcasing the rich musical heritage of Palestine through timeless folk songs and stories" says the blurb for this ToDA gig in its Women’s Voices of the Middle [ ... ]
Six-piece Cuban band Cubache brings the hot salsa rhythms of Buena Vista Social Club, Celia Cruz, Celina Gonzales, Polo Montanes and more to ToDA, complete with signature 360º visuals.
Fadi Rifaai (vocal) is joined by Sandu (tabla) and Zahi Saba Ayon (keyboard) for an immersive sound journey through the poetry of the greatest Sufi mystics — Al-Hallaj, Ibn al-Farid, Abu-al-Hasan — supported by ToDA's signature 360º visuals.
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