(quote_box_right) Interview with the director of the Mourad Mathari festival: “We fought against spell! »(/Quote_box_right)
Tunis | The first jazz evening in Carthage started gently this Friday evening, April 10. The public, more than 1,500 people, according to the director, was on time, the professional organization and the careful security procedure following the various threats that weigh on Tunisia, especially since the attack on the Bardo.
And it is by defying the fate and all the obstacles that the organizers and the artists opened the ball at the Palais des Congrès. Ten minutes after the scheduled time of the concert, the room was full and the concert had already started.
For this first evening, on the program, there was Yassine Boularès, a Saxophonist and Composer Franco-Tunisian. A graduate of the Sorbonne in philosophy, he then made the National Higher Music Conservatory of Paris and the prestigious New School for Jazz in New York. On the battery, its Cedrick Bec and Simon Tailleu at the double bass.
After him, it was the singer and songwriter of Franco-Cameroonian pop “Irma” who enchanted the public, in the company of Nicolas on drums and Elise on the double bass.