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Canada, Québec
Nazih Borish was born in 1982 in Lattakia, Syria. He began to learn the Oud by himself at the age of five, listening to the music of many different cultures like flamenco, jazz, blues, Indian music, etc. At 13, he began working as an Oud player in popular music bands, creating a new style of oud playing, always pushing back the limits of this instrument. In 2005, Borish founded the Syrian Oud School in his hometown, attracting more than 100 students who still work as musicians. In 2016, he moved to Montreal where he continued his musical work with friends and a new family of musicians.
Canada, BC
Think of an unforgettable musical reunion between Canada, China and Spain and you might be able to imagine the unique sound of JouTou. The name is a play on the French words meaning “play everything”, an allusion to the multi-dimensional range of these musicians and their instrumentations and to the variety of influences in their repertoire. They integrate the pipa (Chinese lute) played by Qiu Xia He, the oud (North African lute) and flamenco guitar played by André Thibault alongside world percussion instruments such as the rik and the pandeiro. Symbolising the diversity that reflects Canadian society today, the blended heritages and traditions of the members of this ensemble produce an original creation of lively and cosmopolitan music.
Artist presented by our partner Le Centre Culturel Francophone during Le
Festival d'Été.
In
2023, the festival d’été francophone de Vancouver will bring back once again its artists-in-residence program which brings together
artists from BC and Quebec in world music for a two-days residency, followed by outdoor performances. This year, Le Centre Culturel
Francophone is pairing Quebec’s Oud virtuoso Nazih Borish with Vancouver’s exceptional duo Joutou/Silk Road who will be accompanied on
this occasion by percussionist Phil Bélanger.
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