A mega-concert of Algerian variety songs was hosted, Saturday in Algiers, by a host of young artists, in tribute to the poet and dean of Algerian song of modern times, El Hadj Rabah Driassa, in front of a large audience.
Organized by the Ministry of Culture and Arts, the show, hosted at the Algiers Boualem-Bssaish Opera, paid tribute to the great figure of Algerian song in its Bedouie and modern variations, the late El Hadj Rabah Driassa (1934-2021), the day of celebration of Artist’s Day (June 8 each year).
In an atmosphere of great evenings and a sumptuous decor, enhanced by the introduction on the corner of the stage of Rabah Driassa’s personal domestic seat, which her son Abdou will occupy from the start of this tribute evening, held in the presence of the Minister of Culture and Arts Soraya Mouloudji, representatives of different diplomatic missions accredited in Algiers and several artists of different generations and fields, coming from all regions of Algeria.
Under the reflection of the silver panels, supporting bright and multicolored lighting, the mega-concert was led by around ten young artists with already well-established experience, who performed a few songs, by the late modern-day tenor, author of a brilliant career punctuated by successes which will have thus celebrated Algeria in its moments of national and religious holidays and its social changes.
Supported by an orchestra of around fifteen virtuoso instrumentalists and around forty polyphonic voices, from the “Icosium” Choir, respectively directed by Amine Dahane and Mohamed Mehannek, the performers, Nasreddine Blidi, Nour El Houda Ghennoumet, Romeissa Chikhi, Abdelouahab Djazouli , Kamel Mellouk, Zineb Aouidad and Abdou Driassa, took the audience on a dreamlike hike at several stations marking the prolific universe of the poet and singer of “Khoud el meftah ya fellah” and “Hayyiw El Mouloud bech’mouâe ou dhikr El Ilah.”
The pieces, “Ya Chems”, “Nedjma Kotbiya”, “H’mama”, “Ma nehki”, “Kholkhalek mel”, “H’na Hedjadj”, “Al Awwama”, “Momarrida”, “Hayya Ya Djazair” , “Yah’yaw awlad bladi” and “Ana Djazaïri”, were brilliantly rendered by all the performers, who performed live, or accompanying original versions projected on a large screen.
In solemn atmospheres full of emotion, Abdou Driassa concluded with “Yal Haj”, a title in which he addresses his father, reminded of the young audience in particular, by the projection on the big screen, of several “Nostalgic moments career” of the great master of Algerian variety, author and performer also of “Djabou El Baccalauréat djabou”.
A successful evening, the show was subject to meticulous technical staging led, among others, by Nada Jundi at the head of a control room which announced the different parts of the show in the suspense of the countdowns.
Between joy and emotion, the public, including the large family of the artist in the spotlight, El Hadj Rabah Driassa, savored every moment of the evening in joy and voluptuousness, applauding the artists for a long time.
At the end of the evening, the Minister of Culture and Arts, Soraya Mouloudji took the stage to welcome Hezia Driassa alongside her brother Abdou and present them with honorary distinctions, as well as for all the artists who animated this beautiful tribute.
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