Efteksat to inaugurate International Cairo Jazz Festival

Cairo – 25 September 2017: Efteksat music band, accompanying Nay player Hany Elbadry, will perform in the inauguration of the Cairo Jazz Festival (CJF) on September 28 at the American University’s Tahrir Campus in downtown Cairo at 10 p.m., CJF reported on its official Facebook page.

Eftekasat is an Egyptian Oriental jazz band that was established in late 2001 and gave its debut performance in February 2002 at the Cairo Jazz Club. With three albums, two awards and several TV shows under their belt, the band spends their time between playing at Saturday Nightlife Arabia and performing at various Egyptian venues and around the globe, Eftekasat’s Facebook page reported.

The 9th Cairo International Jazz Festival edition will kick off on September 28 for four days.

A number of Egyptian artists will participate in the festival, such as Watson Blues, Shereen Abdo “Jazz Me”, and Wave Jazz Band.

In addition, international artists will participate in the festival as well, such as Mathias Heise Quadrillion from Denmark, Kapok from Netherlands, Netnakisum from Austria, Tomas Liska ''Invisible World'' from Czech Republic, Ichiro Onoe Trio from Japan and MN' Jam Experiment from Portugal.

There are nine countries participating in the festival this year: Egypt, Denmark, Austria, Holland, Portugal, Panama, Japan and the Czech Republic.