Organized within "Dubai Destinations" during the emirate's artistic season
Dubai Metro Music is an opportunity to support and discover Emirati talents
The festival offers a mixture of traditional and modern musical arts.
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Shaima Al Suwaidi: "Brand Dubai is keen to provide opportunities for Emirati talents in all the events it organizes."
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The Dubai Metro Music Festival, in its second edition, organized by Brand Dubai, the creative arm of the Dubai Government Media Office and the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority, succeeded in providing an opportunity to support and discover Emirati talent, in addition to a unique group of creative musicians from different countries. Several around the world will present their shows at metro stations in Dubai, within “Dubai Destinations”, and during the “Dubai Art Season”.
Director of Creative Projects at Brand Dubai, Shaima Al Suwaidi, told "Emirates Today", "Brand Dubai is keen to provide opportunities for Emirati talents in all the events that it organizes as part of its annual agenda, including (Dubai Metro Music Festival)," noting that in both The two versions open the way for Emirati talents to showcase their talents to the largest segment of the audience, pointing out that, for example, Khadija Salem on guitar was presented in the first edition of the festival, and in the current session Maitha Al Mansouri was presented on the electronic drum.
On evaluating the success of the second edition of the festival, Al Suwaidi explained that this version of the festival is characterized by its synchronization with a major event hosted by Dubai for the first time in the region, which is “Expo 2022 Dubai”, which brings together 192 countries with their different cultures, and art and music constitute an important aspect of expressing those Cultures, as the festival comes within the Dubai Art Season, which extends until the end of this month with an exceptional, varied and rich agenda of artistic events. The metro, most of whom stop to enjoy music and photography with musicians, and a number of people came to the metro in particular to see musicians from their country, and people also interacted on social media, and we witnessed great interest from Arab and foreign media.
With regard to the criteria for selecting the artists participating in the second session of the event, Al-Suwaidi said: “In each session of the festival, we focus on selecting distinguished and different musicians of different nationalities who have not been seen by people of different nationalities and on various instruments, especially new and unknown instruments such as: the violin twin, and the three player. Guitars, and the first Emirati to play the electronic drum, and they were chosen from among the international talents and names who achieved a clear distinction in presenting multiple colors of music, as part of our direction to provide everything new and creative to Dubai residents and visitors, and to confirm Dubai’s global position as a global center for creativity and incubator for creators ».
The festival presented a mixture of traditional and modern musical arts, and the traditional instruments that appeared in its performances included: cello, saxophone, drums, violin and guitar. Of wit, most notably the one-man orchestra show, the rhythmic beatbox shows, and the funniest one, the show that relies on instruments made from recycled household materials and tools.
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Among the most famous artists presented by the Dubai Metro Music Festival this year, the Filipino artist Neil Lanis, whose unique artistic talent took him to appear in many famous television programs, most notably the talent program “Asia’s Got Talent”, where Lannis is unique in a unique musical style that does not depend on A musical instrument, but it relies on its mouth, which it uses to present rhythms similar to the rhythms of drums, which is the art known as “beat box.” Its performances at Dubai Metro stations since the launch of the festival on March 16 have attracted large numbers of metro users who have shown an enthusiastic interaction with its lively rhythms.
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