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Spring Festival - Doha, Qatar

Over the festive season in 2019, Global Grooves hit the streets of Qatar to share some ‘robo-grooves’ with visitors to Souq Waqif and Souq Al Wakra.

Over the festive season Global Grooves hit the streets of Qatar to share some ‘robo-grooves’ with visitors to Souq Waqif and Souq Al Wakra.

Between the 21st Dec 2019 – 4th Jan 2020, Doha’s third edition of the Spring Festival offered an array of cultural programmes and international performers drawing in audiences in their thousands each day.

15 days, 46 performances, and the development of a new musical street show. Here is a little clip of what we got up to.

Performers: Dave Boston, Dan Jones, Freya Bennett-Nielsen, Holly Prest, Keiran Pearson, Leon Patel & Liam Hardy.

Costumes: Christopher Anderson

Tech: Jon Mambo Shaw (Mambo Amps)

Film by Amr Bayomi (Qatar)

Filmed at Souq Waqif and Souq Al Wakra, Doha, Qatar, Jan 2020

Images taken by Alan Hamer

 

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