Festival of Fes

Alison keeps the faith with this link to a performance at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley:Cal Performances | Celebracion

"The ancient city of Fez, Morocco, plays host every spring to one of the world's great musical events, a one-of-a-kind festival that brings together performers from all over the globe in a unique musical celebration of the divine. Transporting its sounds for the first time outside Morocco, some of the festival's finest artists, many often little known in West, perform a wide-ranging program that in the past has included Islamic devotionals, Sufi ritual songs, Berber trance music, Arab-Andalusian rhythms, Bulgarian orthodox choir, Hindustani chants, Celtic sacred music, Christian Gospel, Swedish chamber choir, and more. "A festival of music by believers, but not for believers alone," says Jon Pareles in The New York Times. "As virtuosity met devotion, the pleasure of music was inseparable from the profundity of faith."

"Program: The Spirit of Fès: From My Soul to Your Soul, the Art of Transmission, featuring performances by Yacoub Hussein (Invocation, Palestine) and Gabriel Meyer (Invocation, Israel); Francoise Atlan (Vocals, Sephardic Jewish Tradition, Algeria); Jamey Haddad (Percussion, U.S.A.); Farid El Foulahi (Oud , Morocco);
The Women's Hadra Ensemble of Taroudant (Vocals, Islamic Tradition, Morocco); The Anointed Jackson Sisters (Vocals, Gospel, U.S.A)