Byblos International Festival
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The Byblos international festival is one of the biggest Lebanese festivals which attracts thousands of tourists from all over the world to the shores of Lebanon,to Byblos first city in Phoenicia founded around 5000BC.[1]
[edit] HISTORY
Byblos annual festival was created in 2003 to achieve many goals:
- promote tourism
- show the Lebanese culture
- spread music and art from the middle east to the whole planet[2]
the festivals take place by the sea side in the historic quarter in front of the big castle built by the Crusaders in the 12th every year in July regrouping Lebanese and international artists[1]
2003:
- Oum
- Gregorian (band)
- Gotan Project + Richard Dorfmeister presents Tosca
- Blind Boys of Alabama + John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers
2004:
2005:
2006:
2007:
2008:
- Patti Smith
- Nuit Blanche: Lumi (band), Sebastien Tellier, Mouse on Mars, Munma/Trash Inc.
- Vaya Con Dios
- Barbatuques
- Chucho Valdés Quintet + Chucho Valdés & Michel Legrand
2009:
2010:
- Tribute to Wadih el Safi with Najwa Karam & Wael Kfoury
- Mashrou' Leila
- Caetano Veloso
- Jesse Cook
- Gorillaz
- Riverdance
- Le Nozze di Figaro
2011:
- Don Quixote (Marwan, Ghady and Oussama Rahbani)
- Scorpions (band)
- Moby
- Florent Pagny
- Jamie Cullum
- 30 Seconds To Mars
- Amadou & Mariam
- Les Mystères Lyriques
[edit] Interactive Panorama
Byblos Port by Karim Saad June 10, 2011
[edit] External links
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