DESCRIPTION: El Mastaba Center for Egyptian Folk Music established the 1st International Folk Music Festival in Cairo (WANAS) In 2014, includes 3 days of musical events and workshops, which gives the Egyptian audience, especially Cairo residents to watch and taste the rich cultural diversity in Egypt, we can say that this was first encounter with these marginalized and endangered arts such as the music of color “ dark-skinned people” which they came after Mohamed’s Ali Basha occupation for Sudan by his son Ibrahim at 1820 and bringing slaves to work at the Egyptian Army, so lots of groups of color gathered in Egypt in joined residential neighborhoods where they practiced their mixed traditional arts and became after a long time one of the marginalized Arts types.
In addition to hosting 3 international bands from France, Scotland and Holland which presented World Music, to show the concept of traditional music as an appreciation notion and a popular marker about cultural identity, wherever the country that brings these arts.
