The Eleventh Buzuq Festival kicks off on the Qabbani stage

Damascus (ST): The players of the Buzuq instrument( similar to the lute)  brought out the sweetest melodies  through the 11th Buzuq Festival, recalling the heritage of the Syrian Jazira region with their melodies.

The Buzuq’s instruments varied from tanbour and baghlameh with their different melodies in the festival, which started its activities today on the Qabbani Theater for soloists or collective bands.

The musician Kinan Abu Akl started the festival with solos from the heritage of the Syrian Jazira on the Buzuq instrument. The Turkmen player Bahri al-Turkmani performed various pieces, in addition to a piece presented by the young woman, Rawan Mashriqi.

The Minister of Culture, Dr. Lubana Mushawah, drew attention to the importance of the festival in terms of its artistic beauty and heritage meaning, as it shines on the Syrian Jazira region as an important color of the Syrian rainbow, noting that the Buzuq Festival achieved a blending between the past and the present in terms of the modernity element added by the musicians, especially the electric bouzouki and the heritage pieces that Some played it.

K.Q.