{"id":2106,"date":"2017-07-16T06:45:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T06:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2017-07-16T06:51:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T06:51:34","slug":"hotter-july-update-parti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/hotter-july-update-parti\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotter Than July! Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

#VictoriaInBeirut<\/strong><\/p>\n

On July 1, I flew to Beirut, Lebanon to perform with\u00a0Maysaa Karaa<\/a>, a Los Angeles based Lebanese-American Singer-Songwriter. She’s already had some success in the USA, as one of her recordings (an\u00a0Arabic adaptation of Jefferson Airplane\u2019s\u00a0White Rabbit<\/a>) was\u00a0nominated for a\u00a0Grammy Award in 2015.<\/p>\n

Mayssa and her producer \/ co-writer\u00a0Rich Jacques<\/a>\u00a0recently completed her debut album, “Simple Cure<\/a>“, and I was one of several artists\u00a0invited to perform with\u00a0her in concert in her home country. Her first concert. Sold out. Probably around 2,000\u00a0people. Pretty amazing success for an amazing young lady. Congratulations Mayssa!<\/p>\n

The concert was held\u00a0at the\u00a0Zouk Mikael International Festival<\/a>, in a stunning Roman-style amphitheater. The band was incredible, loaded with USA based musicians who’ve toured with some of the world’s greatest artists, including David Bowie, Pink Floyd and Stevie Wonder:\u00a0Carmine Rojas<\/a>\u00a0(our MD),\u00a0Scott Page<\/a>,\u00a0Marcus Nand<\/a>,\u00a0Rich Jacques<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Neal Daniels<\/a>. We were joined by a group of\u00a0incredible Middle Eastern instrumentalists, including\u00a0Naseem Alatrash<\/a>,\u00a0Layth Sidiq<\/a>,\u00a0Tony Barhoum<\/a>,\u00a0Gilbert Mansour<\/a>\u00a0and a few\u00a0others, whose names I don’t recall…oops!<\/p>\n

I had such a great time, eating delicious meals\u00a0(with plenty of vegetarian options!\u00a0I was so thrilled!), meeting beautiful, kind , music-living people (Mayssa’s friends and family are gems), and performing incredible music while singing background vocals in English, Spanish and Arabic. I felt so international! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

If you have a Facebook account, you can see part of the show here<\/p>\n

Helwa Ya Baladi \/ Stranger<\/a>,<\/p>\n

and a concert news repot\u00a0by\u00a0FutureTV :: Group<\/a>\u00a0here<\/p>\n

Mayssa in Beirut<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s in Arabic, but even if you don’t speak the language, it’s a cool video to watch, with snippets from the performance and interviews with Mayssa and the band.<\/p>\n

Thank you, Mayssa, Michel, Mark, Salim\u00a0and everyone at the\u00a0Zouk Mikael International Festival<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0for\u00a0a most beautiful experience. I\u00a0can’t wait to return to Beirut!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#VictoriaInBeirut On July 1, I flew to Beirut, Lebanon to perform with\u00a0Maysaa Karaa, a Los Angeles based Lebanese-American Singer-Songwriter. She’s already had some success in the USA, as one of her recordings (an\u00a0Arabic adaptation of Jefferson Airplane\u2019s\u00a0White Rabbit) was\u00a0nominated for a\u00a0Grammy Award in 2015. Mayssa and her producer \/ co-writer\u00a0Rich Jacques\u00a0recently completed her debut album, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}