{"id":13528,"date":"2013-12-05T08:26:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T13:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/?p=13528"},"modified":"2013-12-03T18:32:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T23:32:59","slug":"takaleed-showcase-traditional-arabic-music-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/takaleed-showcase-traditional-arabic-music-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Takaleed Showcase Traditional Arabic Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"arabic-musicians-nov-2013<\/a> Last week we were entertained by a visiting duo of talented musicians, Abdelkader Saadoun and Nizar Al-Issa\u2019s.\u00a0 They are two members of a band called Takaleed who showcase traditional Arabic music. \u00a0Abdelkader and Nizar told the children all about their instruments, the oud,\u00a0 the mandole and other percussion instruments.\u00a0 In no time, our 2 to 11 year olds were joining in with songs, singing in Arabic and creating rhythms together.\u00a0 \u00a0Thank you, Abdelkader and Nizar, for introducing us to your beautiful instruments and music.\u00a0 Thank you also to David Bowen of the Department of Culture for bringing Takaleed along to our school.\u00a0 How fortunate we have been to meet such amazing musicians.\u00a0 Read on to learn more about Takaleed and to\u00a0 hear them play.<\/p>\n

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\"arabic-musicians-nov-2013\"<\/a>Abdelkader Saadoun originally comes from Algeria where he learnt to play Rai, the country\u2019s native music. Now living in the UK, he formed Takaleed with some of the most talented musicians from the Arabic world. Altogether, the band consists of four performers from different backgrounds who sing and play traditional instruments such as mandole and oud, as well as North African percussion including hadjoudj, bendir, derbouka, tambourine and djembe. They are a charismatic ensemble, who enliven audiences with their infectious rhythms and dynamic stage personality.<\/p>\n

Nizar Al-Issa\u2019s, originally from Palestine from a respected musical family with roots in Ramallah, has a naturally powerful, passionate voice has been called \u2018the authentic sound of the Middle East\u2019. \u00a0\u2018I think I\u2019ve always sung\u2019 he says. \u2018From a really early age I was listening to the sounds all around me \u2013 from the great Arabic singers to the local guys at weddings and parties, even the fishermen and farmers \u2026 everything I heard went in somewhere! And I\u2019ve always written songs, it just comes naturally to me \u2013 although the technique, the skills in using my voice, composition and mastery of the oud are down to years of practice and training!\u2019<\/p>\n

Learn more about Takaleed and hear them play, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week we were entertained by a visiting duo of talented musicians, Abdelkader Saadoun and Nizar Al-Issa\u2019s.\u00a0 They are two members of a band called Takaleed who showcase traditional Arabic music. \u00a0Abdelkader and Nizar told the children all about their instruments, the oud,\u00a0 the mandole and other percussion instruments.\u00a0 In no time, our 2 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13533,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528\/revisions\/13533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}