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Massar Egbari is a band from Alexandria, Egypt. The band, which formed in 2005, presents a kind of alternative Egyptian music, mixing rock, jazz and blues with Oriental music. "Massar Egbari" means "Compulsory Track", a name intended to reflect how society forces people to lead their lives in a particular way. Massar Egbari presents music and songs talking about social problems. Love is not the main concern although it represents a part of their songs. ==Performances== In 2007, the band played for the first time in Europe as part of the Malta Arts Festival (Valletta-Malta), Barisa Rock Festival - Rock for Peace (Istanbul-Turkey). In 2008, the band played in The Biennale of young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean in Bari, Italy. In 2009, Massar Egbari played at a festival in Cairo in support of the people of the Gaza Strip,〔 then at the International Adriatic-Mediterranean Festival in Ancona, Italy〔 and at the Fesival of the Mediterranean in Alexandria. In the same year, Massar Egbari invited as special guests to perform in the Bienale of young artists in Skopje to perform with Monistra band from Macedonia in their Common project Alexsopje (Alexandria-Skopje). In 2010, the band performed for the first time along with other artists from Africa in Sauti Za Busara Festival in Zanzibar. On May 29, 2014, Massar Egbari will perform alongside Black Theama and Cairokee. Massar Egbari members (nationally and internationally) attended several workshops, won several prizes, as well as composing music for a number of movies. Massar Egbari will appear by the end of 2010 in ''El-Hawi'', a film by Ibrahim El-batout (director of “Ein-Shams”) about people living in Alexandria, and in “Microphone”, a film by Ahmed Abdallah El-Sayed (director of “Heliopolis”) in a film taking about under-ground artists in Alexandria with Khaled Abo El-Naga, Menna Shalaby, Yosra El-Lozy and Alexandrian underground artists. Massar Egbari was featured on the 2014 compilation ''Songs from a Stolen Spring'' that paired Western musicians with artists from the Arab Spring. On the album, Massar Egbari's "I Still Exist" was meshed with Maria McKee's performance of the Tony Joe White song "Ol' Mother Earth".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Songs From A Stolen Spring )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Massar Egbari」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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