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Historic Cairo hosts diverse cultural performances during drum festival

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Published on 2024-06-01 09:48:56

Cairo’s drum festival opened this week, bringing together around 40 folkloric troupes from around the world.

The 11th International Festival for Drums and Traditional Arts kicked off in historic Cairo and will run until the end of the week.

The event featured a Palestinian troupe as well as groups from various countries including Japan, China and India.

More than 30 troupes from all over Egypt are also participating.

Audience members cheered as performers from Egypt played songs the crowd knew by heart.

The festival originally started in 2009 with the aim of sending a…

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