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The Saudi artist, Khaled Abdul Rahman, expressed his great pleasure at his public concert, which he performed as part of the activities of the Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts, in its thirty-seventh session.
Abdul Rahman said that his public singing presence in Jordan was very late, but it came at the right time, and added: “I am not a stranger to my beloved Jordanian audience, as I am always visiting my friends and acquaintances, but my artistic presence was limited 10 years ago to filming three songs with the great director.” Hussein Daibes, and I did not have the opportunity to sing in Jordan, and (Jerash Festival) is great and important and a bright spot in my artistic career.
Regarding the fullness of the theater with the audience from the first place, Abdul Rahman confirmed: “I saw the beautiful cohesion between the Saudi and Jordanian audiences, and I distinguished the people of the country from the Saudis, and I knew that there is a common love that brings me together with the audience from everywhere, and honestly I expected the audience to attend, but I did not know the number of the audience In the concert there will be this number, since Sunday is an official working day in Jordan, and therefore the concert will end late, so I had no choice but to meet the audience with love and the songs they asked of me.
And about his response to the statement of the Jordanian artist, Omar Al-Abdullah, to the Saudi media about him, he said: “Some friends told me that Al-Abdullah welcomes me in Jordan, and my participation in the Jerash Festival, and chose me among all fellow Arab artists to welcome me directly, because I am the only one among them who participates in (Jerash) for the first time, and this is not strange for Al-Abdallat, the great and beautiful artist and friend of concerts, travel, creativity and successes, and I received his blessing by wishing the success of the concert, and in turn I congratulate him on the great success he achieved.
In his concert, which lasted for more than an hour and a half, Abdul Rahman fulfilled what the audience asked of him with many successful and prominent songs in his artistic career, so he entertained them with his orchestra, led by Maestro Amir Abdul Majeed, and his band, which consisted of 45 musicians.
Among the songs presented by Abd al-Rahman, whom the audience raised his pictures in the stands, and wrote on them expressions of love and welcome, so that “Makhawi al-Layl” shines, the title that fans of his voice prefer to call him, with songs: “Remember me”, “What are you waiting for”, and “Washlon Mughlaik”. , and “You are the most beautiful”, “Who will show”, “Taqwa of abandonment”, “Believe me”, “After you is torment”, “Al-Atta”, and “Be honest with me”.
And the "Jerash Festival" was launched last Thursday evening, with the concert of the artist Omar Al-Abdallat, to which the Jordanian audience gathered from all governorates, and Al-Abdallat achieved two records together in the "Jerash Festival", as Al-Abdallat is the first artist to reach 13 participations in the festival. The festival sessions, as he became the first artist to achieve concert tickets with such intensity, and announce their completion from the sales outlets so quickly, five hours after they were launched, in the theater, whose attendance is estimated at five thousand spectators.
Al-Abdallat, accompanied by his private orchestra, led by Maestro Dr. George Asaad, accompanied by eighty musicians, sang a group of his most famous songs, such as: “I Didn’t Leave You” and “Ya Saad”, which he performed 30 years ago, and the audience interacted with them as if they were among the new songs that he performed. It is appropriate for the music of this era, before he recalled the song of the late Saudi artist Talal Maddah, “Say El Ghali”, which he previously performed for the first time at a ceremony honoring “The Voice of the Earth” in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, at the beginning of this year, and since that day the audience has requested it in every concert, which prompted Al-Abdallat to be accredited as part of his permanent concert program.
Al-Abdallat received, during the concert on the stage, a child with Down syndrome called "Ahmed", who shared with him playing the drum in the song "Al-Dahiya". ".