Michelle Rounds
Newsletter ~ 2023
ENJOY our doings and thank you !!
Enjoying a fresh autumn in Cairo at present and looking forward to winter ......
New Year's Eve gig 2022-2023
We had lots of fun at the Kempinski Nile Jazz Bar with a full house on New Year's Eve with Samy Ibrahim on baby grand piano and Ahmed Othman on electric contrabass !
With these wonderful vibes still buzzing around us, we beam out the very same to you and yours for a fabulous 2023 filled with love, joy, exquisite wellbeing, peace and prosperity !
Bandmakers Got Talent - 28, 29 December 2023 & 5, 12 January 2024
At Zed Park with a band of Cairo's finest musicians playing songs for members of the public to perform to ! An amazing live karaoke experience and for many participants a once-in-a-lifetime dream - lots of shining, sparkling eyes filled with love and gratitude - what an amazing initiative !!!
Westin Cairo welcomes Christmas - 28 November 2023
The Egyptian premiere of "CAIRO
JAZZMAN" - 28 October
This amazing cinema documentary of Amro Salah, director and founder of Cairo Jazz Festival, was shot in 2014. Atef Ben Bouzid's production has garnered international acclaim and we are proud to be in it. The premiere for Egypt was held at Goethe Institut Kairo and a second screening was held at the 15th Cairo Jazz Festival Cairo Jazzman
Cairo Jazz Festival 2023
A wonderful concert at Ewart Hall in the AUC Tahrir campus with Amro Salah on piano, Kareem Hossam on bass and Wadie Naim on drums - special guest Shady Al Qaseer on saxophone
Art Mania School of Music 10th anniversary
Delighted and honoured to be recognised by Art Mania for my small contribution to the growth of their music students - CONGATULATIONS to all and so proud of you - dearest Gigi, Ossama, Roumy, Ahmed and Sara and all the team ..... stay wonderful
Bibliotheca Alexandrina - Jazz Flare
Season's closing concert 15 July 2023 with awesome musicians of the Orchestra Bibliotheca Alexandrina under Maestro Nayer Nagui on Steinway! It was that which one daren't dream of, and which eventuated, and was beautifully fulfilled - my cup runneth over ! Jazz Flare
VOU in Egypt ! July 2023
VOU - are Fiji's premier
Dance Company and we were honoured to be able to partner with them for this project. We collaborated with Egyptian NUT Dance Company and presented an inaugural performance in Cairo, setting the precedent for further collaborative work connecting Australia, the Pacific and the MENA region. Fully supported by the Museum of Pacific and Oceanic Art and Exciting Finance
Cairo Flea Market - 4 February & 3 June
Always a pleasure at the Aquarium Grotto in Zamalek - thank you CFM ! Cairo Flea Market and Wasabi Experience
Hyatt Regency Cairo West 13 May
~ a beautiful jazz brunch with Rami Attallah - keys, Mina Nashaat - sax, Ehab Badr Tass - bass and Amir Attallah - drums - thank you for the music ! Join us !
Bandmakers - 5 May
Lots of fun and some fabulous talent !
It was fun being part of the Egyptian Jazz All-Stars lineup for The Jazz Society Of Egypt's IJD concert singing my lyrics to Timothy Michael's (piano) original composition 'Catch The Groove" with Andrew Maher - guitar, Youssef Hady bass, and David Maged - drums and "Hoochie Coochie Man" with Cairo Jazz Festival founder, Amro Salah - piano, Andrew Maher - guitar, Kareem Hossam -bass and Sameh Shaban - drums. Lots of great music in the garden of the AUC (American University Cairo) Tahrir campus!
International Jazz Day 30 April 2023
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For the UNESCO supported International Jazz Day (IJD 30 April annually) which, representing Egypt, I've championed and performed for each year since 2017. We played at the Jazz Bar of The Kempinski Nile Hotel in Garden City, Cairo with Samy Ibrahim on baby grand piano and Ahmed Othman on contrabass. Sponsored by LetKnow Pay, Nile Kempinski Hotel
with love ~ Michelle and Ali
Valentine's Day - nice and freezing in Cairo this February (at the Jazz Bar of the Kempinski Nile Hotel with Samy Ibrahim on piano) !
Valentine's Day - nice and freezing in Cairo this February (at the Jazz Bar of the Kempinski Nile Hotel with Samy Ibrahim on piano) !
November 2022
It was awesome! a wonderfully fun, exciting and healing experience ! Egypt
September / October 2022
The AMMAN JAZZ FESTIVAL
The 10th Amman Jazz Festival was phenomenal and we loved every moment of it - I performed with Jan Wouter Oostenrijk (guitar) and Nasser Salameh (percussion) on the main festival stage; and with Rami Attallah (keys and bass), (later joined by LBT members for a jam session : Leo Betzl (keys), Maximilian (bass), Sebastian Wolfgruber (drums)) at the inimitable Corner's Pub - I also hosted the main stage performances and all of this was made possible through the generous sponsorship of LetKnow Pay, under OrangeRed productions and through Suluo Daunivalu representation and management.
