Damascus-SANA
The players from the strings of the Bouzouk instrument brought out the sweetest melodies that their fingers sang through the 11th Bouzouk Festival, recalling the heritage of the Syrian Jazira region with their melodies.
The Buzuq’s instruments varied from tanbour and baghlameh with their different melodies in the festival, which started its activities today on the Qabbani Theater for soloists or collective bands.
The musician Kinan Abu Akl started the festival with solos from the heritage of the Syrian island on the Buzuq instrument. The Turkmen player Bahri al-Turkmani performed various pieces, in addition to a piece presented by the young woman, Rawan Mashriqi.
The Minister of Culture, Dr. Lubana Mushawah, pointed out the importance of the festival in terms of its artistic beauty and its heritage meaning, as it shines on the Syrian Jazeera region as an important color of the Syrian rainbow, noting that the Buzuq Festival achieved a blending between the past and the present in terms of the modernity element added by the musicians, especially the electric bouzouki and the heritage pieces that Some played it.
In turn, the musician Hoshank Habash stated that he chose to diversify the pieces to prove that this instrument is present in all kinds of music, especially heritage, and that modern music can be combined with the bouzouq instrument.
Journalist Idris Murad explained that his interest in this festival has been going on for a decade because of the importance of this historical machine, as it spans more than two thousand years, and introducing the public to this type of machine. On the machines belonging to the bouzouq, such as the tanbour and the baghlameh.
Bilal Ahmed and Hadi Omran
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