A view of the venue where the fourth Katara European Jazz Festival have been taking place at the Cultural Village.
Performances by jazz artistes from the Netherlands and Austria will bring the curtains down on the fourth Katara European Jazz Festival tonight at the Cultural Village.
The final night of the series of concerts of the five-day festival will see Dutch singer Ntjam Rosie sing her songs which are full of optimism and hope amid the many challenges the world faces. It will be followed by David Six from Austria whose music is characterized by a meeting of organic unity of composition and improvisations. The performances are scheduled at 7pm and 9pm respectively.
Interested audiences will also have the opportunity to attend a ‘Vocal and Songwriting’ workshop by Ntjam Rosie from 4pm to 5pm. Workshops by the participating artistes held in cooperation with Qatar Music Academy have been an integral element of this year’s festival.
The festival saw the participation of 11 European embassies including Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland.
Over the past few days, the festival, which stems from Katara’s keenness to reach out to different cultures and peoples from all walks of life, attracted Jazz lovers from different age groups and nationalities.
The festival kicked off with the performances of a German band entitled, ‘Favo’ and a Bulgarian Jazz show by Hilda Kazasyan Band.
On Thursday, the audiences enjoyed the performance of Italian band Filomena Campus Quartet followed by Swiss band Marc Perrenoud Trio, who played contemporary Jazz. The audience were also enthralled by traditional European tunes by Lokomotiv band from Portugal.
Last Friday, visitors watched renowned Romanian band Pan Terra and French Jazz musicians, Mohamed Najem and his friends, who shared their music inspired by their numerous travels and revealed shades of oriental and classical jazz with modern flavour. Noa Lur from Spain and Grzech Piotrowski from Poland, took center stage on Saturday, during which jazz enthusiasts had a taste of Polish classical and folk music as well as Spanish songs by powerful vocalist Noa Lur.
