Mystic Music Sufi Festival begins from 11th

LAHORE

The Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop will start the Mystic Music Sufi Festival 2015 on the 11th of December, at the Alhamra Cultural Complex, Gaddafi Stadium.

This unique cultural festival will run for three days till the 13th of December and features an incredible line up of devotional musicians and dancers from across Pakistan. Since it was first organised in the year 2000, the festival has showcased participants from over 22 Muslim countries. This year, the Mystic Music Sufi Festival will bring together a diverse group of Sufi singers from all over Pakistan to showcase Sufi poetry and music that has been passed down through generations for more than a thousand years. Sufi music is a strong part of Rafi Peer’s cultural focus and is a testament to the organisations interest and commitment to promoting art and culture in all its many forms. Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop believes that Sufi music is an effective tool to affect change in society through a language of oneness and unity.

Sufi music and art performed by artistes from every part of Pakistan embodies the true face of our traditions and artistic abilities. It introduces people to various forms of Sufi singing and devotional expressions and provides a truer depiction of a peaceful Islamic heritage. Starting from the 12th of December, this festival will bring more than a dozen Sufi singers from every province of Pakistan to perform their various styles of expression and participate in an effort of change. The 2015 Mystic Music Sufi Festival features artistes such as Sain Zahoor, Sher Miandad, Akhtar Chinar Zari, Mian Miri Qawwals, Pappu and Goonga Sain Dholia, Zarsanga, Areeb Azhar, Wahab Shah and culminates in a mega performance by the legendary Abida Parveen, who is performing in Lahore after eight years. The Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop invites everyone, come and join hands and support the promotion of their heritage and traditions, to spread the message of peace all over the world, so that the world could realise that Pakistan is at its core an inclusive nation with a deep and abiding cultural heritage of peace, harmony and compassion. This festival is dedicated to the loving memory of Faizaan Peerzada, a man whose life is epitomised by the scale, scope, vision and unending hope embodied in the great works that are his legacy. And though he will be missed all the days of our lives, his spirit will live forever in the continuation of these remarkable dreams made real.