Barbès and the multi-culti music fest
Wust El-Balad fuses jazz, rock, and oriental music into a mélange dubbed as “Downtown. Yet even Cairo’s ‘heart of town’ paled in comparison to the Orchestre National de Barbès in bringing out Cairo’s spirit last Tuesday at the annual Fête de la Musique (Music Festival), held at the Saladin Citadel. In its 27th year, the …