00:00We're in Dubai Metro Music Festival, it's the third edition of it, and it's a partnership
00:20between Brand Dubai, the creative arm of media office, and Arood and the transportation authority.
00:26This year is different, we kind of aligned the festival with the theme of the UAE, the
00:31sustainability.
00:32We have here around 20 amazing musicians here from different nationalities.
00:38Some of them we chose them because of that theme.
00:41They kind of build their own instrument by the recycled items, which those instrument
00:47looks like an art piece to be honest.
00:49I brought with me a lot of DIY instruments, so a lot of plastic pipes, some scrap wood,
00:56some machine to help me play, and I mix all this together for a small performance.
01:01I'm building instruments since maybe 15 years now.
01:04I perform, I talk about it, I do some workshops, some masterclasses, I compose with.
01:10This is just a small sample of my collection, I got 1,000 more at home in my workshop.
01:15We have one local, we have the locally based people who are musicians known for a long
01:21time, and also we have from the MENA, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, internationally we have Australian,
01:28we have also from Canada and different kind of countries.
01:32We want the festival to capture different countries, different cultures, to bring those
01:37cultures here in Metro Dubai.
01:39I'm a Dubai resident actually, so I live here and I do only music, I'm a full-time musician.
01:45I'm also a part of the band Hindu Park.
01:48We are two members from Pakistan and two members from India.
01:57I'm playing guitar, the instrument I play.
02:01I play fingerstyle and I play on my lap, and I play two together at the same time.
02:08The audience seems to be really interested, the people of Dubai seem very interested in
02:14the kind of music it is.
02:15I've been playing the guitar since I was 10, I'm 25, so about 15 years now, and I've been
02:21performing for maybe 10 years, and yeah, it's really cool to be able to do stuff like this,
02:27it's an absolute dream.
02:29When we say Metro Music Festival, it's the art.
02:31This is aligned with the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Barashid, to make Dubai the
02:35best city to live in, and to make Dubai the capital of art.
02:38In March here in Dubai, it's the art season in Dubai, so when it's art, there's music,
02:43and that's why we have Metro Music Festival.
03:02The festival is from 6 to 12 of March, it starts from 4pm till 10pm.
03:08It's around 5 metro stations around Dubai, it's Burj Al Man, it's Union, Emirates, Shuba,
03:17also the DFC, which is Dubai Finance Centre.
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