Dance Party!!!

So I went to an awesome concert last night! It was outside the Library of Alexandria, a.k.a a totally amazing building by the Mediterranean, and we all had tickets from our program. There turned out to be two bands playing, but the first was the only one we knew about. They were called 'Wust el Balad' which means 'downtown' in Arabic. They were awesome! There was much dancing. I've put a brief sample video at the bottom of the post for your listening delight!

Even BETTER was the next group that played. Me and some others (including our resident director, Robyn, who is awesome) were not with the main group (I'm not sure if the group even stayed together), and after the first band ended we decided to stay for the second. It was the best decision! They were all kind of french looking, vaguely, like maybe they could be Moroccan or something, kind of, and they were all wearing Arab-ish or oriental type dress (galibiyya, linen pants, etc). They looked like awesome desert people. And the music was like amazing desert exotic dance party ska type Arabic stuff. It was so cool. There was a guy in a galibeyya (man dress, basically) and a saudi type headdress, and a saxaphone. It was all too cool. They all had little clappy hand cymbal things that they would all use for percussion, and there was awesome singing by everyone involved, and awesome drumming, and the various members would sometimes start dancing around (either just straightforward stepping side to side in rhythm or actually doing a jig). We made our way to the front of the crowd and danced like crazy, despite the crowds of Egyptians. Who, let's face it, were also dancing, some of them pretty crazily. We were having an unofficial dance-off with this group of hilarious boys next to us who were dancing in the most ridiculous fashion. I attempted to get this on video, but failed. Oh well. I have several videos, but since the internet is so iffy here uploading them is apparently going to be hard. I will keep trying, maybe get them on youtube or something and link to it.