Bands of El Mastaba
The bands currently under El Mastaba’s umbrella represent number of distinct folk music traditions in Egypt and one band that brings traditional musicians together with their urban, Western counterparts to create innovative music and new audiences. The first three bands to be formed, El Tanbura, El Henna and El Waziry, represent the music of the three Canal cities, Port Said, Suez and Isamilia, respectively. Although their shared history of resistance, struggle and exile and the confluence of music traditions in this gateway to Africa and Asia have influenced their music, each band demonstrates its cultural identity and represents distinct aspects of their shared heritage. The other bands range from the Sinai to the Delta to Upper Egypt and represent the diversity of Egyptian culture and the confluence of cultures and traditions of surrounding countries.
El TanburaEl Tanbura is a collective of veteran Egyptian master musicians, singers, fishermen and philosophers based in Port Said. For almost two decades they.....see more
Abul Gheit DervishesAbul Gheit is the name of an island near Qaliyubia where a queen called Anja once lived. She used to enslave people to work for her in her limitless.....see more
HinnaQalzam village was in the north of what we call now the Suez Gulf since pharaonic times. This village had an important geographic situation, although.....see more
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RangoFrom the time of Muhammad Ali’s conquest of the Sudan in 1820 and of Said and Ismail, his sons after him, large numbers of Sudanese joined the Egyptian.....see more
Mazameer El NileFolk music in Upper Egypt is characterized by a diversity of instruments, such as the rababa (spike fiddle), the kawala (end-blown.....see more
BaramkaIn the small town of El-Matariyya on the shores of Lake Manzalla live the Baramka family, famous for enlivening the nights and the festivities of the .....see more
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Bedouin Jerry-can band(BJB) is a collective of semi-nomadic musicians, poets, storytellers and coffee grinders from the Egyptian Sinai desert. Members are drawn from.....see more
El WazieryEl Waziery (previously El Suhbagia) was founded in Ismailia in 1994 in cooperation with Mohamed El Waziery, the “King of Simsimia”, as.....see more
BaladyEl Mastaba established Balady in 2012, and has organized a number of successful performances for audiences in various Egyptian governorates. The.....see more
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NubaNour"Amandujr" is an ancient Nubian legend about the Nile. It tells how people drowned beneath the currents of the world’s greatest river never die and how.....see more
KaffafaEl Kafafa band joined El Mastaba Center in 2013 and performs the ancient Egyptian art of Kafafa or palm clapping. Still found in Upper Egypt, palm.....see more
Children's SchoolEl Mastaba founded three schools, "Young Tanbura" in Port Said city 2003, "Young Hinna" in Suez city 2004 and “Young Jerrycan” in El Arish city.....see more
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