Released on - Thursday,15 July , 2010 -19:49
Boney M, the 70s disco band behind hits such as "Rasputin" and "By the Rivers of Babylon," will play in Ramallah next week as part of a Palestinian festival, organisers said on Thursday.
The band, which shot to global fame with catchy disco numbers, will perform a concert in the West Bank city on July 20 as part of the six-day music and dance festival taking place across the occupied Palestinian territory.
"This is the 12th time we have held the Palestine International Festival of Dance and Music," said Hana Awwad of the the Ramallah-based Popular Art Centre, which is organising the event.
The festival was expected to attract around 13,000 visitors, she said.
The lineup includes a concert by French-Algerian Rai singer Faudel on July 21 as well as performances by the Ballet Espanol de Murcia, Jordanian composer Tareq al-Nasser and his Rum Group, a Georgian dance theatre troupe as well as many local music and dance groups.
British-born Palestinian singer Shadia Mansour, popularly known as "the First Lady of Arabic Hip Hop," will open the festival on Sunday.
The festival will run to July 24, with events taking place in five West Bank cities as well as in the port city of Haifa in northern Israel.
The event is being held to highlight the problems faced by the Palestinians in accessing water resources in the occupied West Bank, where Israel controls shared resources.
Rights groups say the water supplied by Israel falls short of Palestinian needs, but also point out that the Palestinians have failed to set up the infrastructure and institutions needed in the water sector.
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