Ruptured News // Mayssa Jallad announces French live dates // December 2024

Mayssa Jallad has announced a handful of French dates in support of her album Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels (#41 in The Wire’s Albums of the Year 2023). She will be accompanied on stage by Julia Sabra (Postcards, Snakeskin) and Pascal Semerdjian (Postcards, SANAM, Préfaces).

Dec. 05 – Les Champs Libres, Transmusicales de Rennes, Rennes (followed by a talk with Amani Semaan, director of Beirut & Beyond International Music Festival)
Dec. 06 – UBU Rennes, Transmusicales de Rennes, Rennes
Dec. 08 – Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
Dec. 13 – Théâtre du Bois de l’Aune, Aix en Provence

Supported by Al-MU7AFFIZ – Cultural Grant of Goethe Institut Lebanon 

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MARJAA: Listen/Order (Ruptured) 

MARJAA: Listen/Order (Six of Swords) 

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Recommended reading:

https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip/mayssa-jallad-je-garde-toujours-espoir-pour-le-liban-8033117

https://www.telerama.fr/musique/la-libanaise-mayssa-jallad-aux-trans-musicales-en-parlant-de-mon-pays-je-me-suis-trouve-une-mission-7023345.php

https://rennes.maville.com/actu/actudet_-trans-musicales-de-rennes.-avec-sa-folk-melancolique-mayssa-jallad-evoque-l-histoire-du-liban-_dep-6585810_actu.Htm

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/l-info-culturelle-reportages-enquetes-analyses/mayssa-jallad-musicienne-et-urbaniste-libanaise-comprendre-le-liban-a-travers-son-passe-7633523

https://www.liberation.fr/culture/musique/mayssa-jallad-cet-album-cest-une-reflexion-sur-la-violence-urbaine-20241201_Q7C65SEO6FCYFMSQKPL4OY6FOU/

https://www.lestrans.com/article/1-minute-avec-mayssa-jallad/

https://www.humanite.fr/culture-et-savoir/beyrouth/vous-navez-aucune-idee-de-lhorreur-reelle-sous-les-bombes-les-artistes-libanais-racontent-leur-desespoir

https://www.destimed.fr/biennale-daix-jusquau-14-decembre-innovations-creations-et-en-art-point-de-frontiere/

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