Category: Music

The Ahmadi Music Group is performing a jazz soiree tomorrow night at the residence of the French ambassador. The dinner and music event is being held in aid of Ukrainian refugees and tickets are selling for 30KD. If you’re interested get your tickets before it sells out. Link

Update: It’s sold out

Staged in Kuwait, the popular local English community theatre group is ending its tenth season with a warm and wonderful production of the smash-hit musical, “Mamma Mia!”.

Packed with ABBA hits, Mamma Mia! promises to leave you with a smile on your face. The musical is going to be fun and will be taking place over 6 days with tickets starting at KD7.5. The first performance is this coming Thursday so you need to hurry and book now since they’re close to being sold out.

If you’re interested, here is the link.

Carol Souki is a Venezuelan singer-songwriter of Lebanese descent living in Kuwait. OLA is her newest single and features her brother Mazz who debuts for the first time. If you’re into salsa/reggaeton then check out the video above.

You can also follow Carol on Instagram @carolsoukimusic or visit her website carolsoukimusic.com

The French Institute in Kuwait is holding a Jazz night on Thursday with music by Ed Mayo’s Q8 Jazz Quartet. Tickets start at KD7 and there are limited seats so if you’re interested, click here.

The Ahmadi Music Group have been pretty active this season, I think they’ve had three events already this year and this weekend they’re having another one. This coming Thursday and Friday, AMG will be holding a lecture concert about Beethoven and the 5th symphony which many consider being the best-known piece of classical music ever written. The event is taking place at JACC and tickets are on sale now starting at KD10. Click here to book.

Tickets to Ahmadi Music Group’s concert this week are currently on sale but quickly running out. AMG will be performing music by Vivaldi who many consider being the best-loved composer of the Baroque era. There are two performances taking place, one on Thursday and the other on Friday and tickets start at 10KD. If you’re interested, here is the link to get you tickets. Link

The local band Galaxy Juice recently released a new music video for their track “Ya Salwa” from their latest album “Galaxy Juice and the Forty Thieves”. Playing this song live in Riyadh at the MDLBEAST Soundstorm Festival and seeing the crowd’s reaction was one of the main reasons they started to sing in Arabic. It’s a pretty fun track and music video so check it out.

The music video and animation was done by Agrentinian based Marina Di Milta (@marinadimilta).

If you want to listen to their full album, it’s available to stream on: Spotify, Anghami and Apple Music.

You can also follow Galaxy Juice on Instagram @galaxyjuiceband

The Kuwaiti Jazz Collective will be performing BeBop classics tonight at the Recital Hall at JACC. The Jazz Collective will be performing classics by great heroes of jazz including Cannonball Adderley and Duke Ellington and they’ll be performing from 7:30PM to 8:30PM. No tickets or reservations are required.

Follow the Ahmadi Music Group on instagram to stay posted on their other upcoming events @ahmadimusicg

Galaxy Juice: A new music video by one of my favorite local bands, Sahran (Rave Arabia) is from their latest album “and the forty thieves“. The music video was made by Salvador Cresta from Argentine who has previously worked with the well-known indie artist Ariel Pink.

If you want to listen to their full album, it’s available to stream on: Spotify, Anghami and Apple Music.

You can also follow Galaxy Juice on Instagram @galaxyjuiceband

Boom.Diwan: An ensemble of traditional Kuwaiti musicians who combine Kuwaiti bahri (sea) music with global jazz, Boom.Diwan’s latest EP ‘Minarets’ was conceived across three countries; UAE, Kuwait and South Africa. The band collaborated with pianist Nduduzo Makhathini for these tracks, the first-ever South African musician signed to the legendary Blue Note Records. You can check out the EP below or on Spotify, Sound Cloud, Apple Music or Anghami.

You can also follow Boom.Diwan on Instagram @boom.diwan

Today (Tuesday) is the last day to audition for a featured vocalist in Staged in Kuwait’s upcoming musical theatre showcase. If you’re interested in taking part in the musical, visit Staged in Kuwait for more details. Link

MajorSamm is a YouTube account where they make anti-war music videos with the intention of introducing both music fans and history fans to lesser-known conflicts or aspects of conflicts by giving a glimpse into their look and feel. His latest video is a mashup of “Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence” with footage of the burning oil wells that were set on fire by the retreating Iraqi army during Desert Storm in 1991.

Thanks @syedfraz

The local band Galaxy Juice recently released their third album “and the forty thieves”. This is their first album where they sing in both Arabic and English and they also experimented with traditional khaliji/Gulf percussions. They infused the traditional beats with synthesizers and guitars and managed to create their own unique sound.

If you want to listen to their new album, it’s available to stream on: Spotify, Anghami and Apple Music.

You can also follow them on Instagram @galaxyjuiceband

Found some old photos of Video Club in Salmiya I had taken back in 2011 before it closed down. Cassettes were being sold for 500fils and CD’s for 1KD.

At this point the store had shrunk to half the size and I don’t think the video rental upstairs still was around then.

This is an odd post I know but there seems to be an old myth that one of the dancers in Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’ music video from 1982 was Kuwaiti. I first heard this from a friend a few months ago and shrugged it off, but this weekend I got an email from a reader telling me the same. So I decided to dig into this to see if it was true.

The story goes that the dancer in the white outfit who leads the rival gang in the music video is actually Kuwaiti (to the left of Michael in the picture above). Going by the way he looks I could see him passing as a Kuwaiti so I tried to dig up the full cast members list to see what his name was. Turns out that the dancer with the white top is Michael Peters, an American choreographer and director who has no connection to Kuwait.

I then decided to dig up the list of cast members in as many Michael Jackson videos as I could think of and I wasn’t able to find anyone that sounded Kuwaiti either. So I guess that myth is busted.

Local musician and artist Zahed Sultan has a new track out and I really like the new more personal approach he’s been taking with his music. His previous track “Layl” was related to his father while “Hindi Majnoon” is about how he was bullied for being half Indian while growing up in Kuwait. I’ve embedded the YouTube link above but the song is also on Spotify and Apple Music.