Safaa Farid’s group, Fer’et El Negoum, have been playing in Cairo for over twenty years, first forming in 1982 and working for seven years with the famous dancer Zizi Mustafa.

Since then they have gone on to play with other soloists, and begun working with Yasmina in 1996. The core members of the band, Safaa Farid (singer) Reda Saad (accordionist) Ashraf Barsoum (keyboards) and Sayed Ibrahim (sagat player, comic and dancer in his own right!) are still together today, along with Ashraf Moussa (duff), Gamal Fouad (nai), Emad Sukkar (tabla) and Naser Abdou have been with the band and played with Yasmina for many years. Hoda (singer) will be joining them on the Australian Tour.

Safaa Farid’s velvet singing voice can be heard on several dance CDs including “Layali Yasmina”, “Heya di Yasmina” and Badia’s “Delaa el Helween”.

Dancers Mohamed Khazafy and Sayed Amar joined the group in October 2004 and have become an important part of the show offering the folkloric element. They can also be seen on “Journey of Desire” a new DVD recently released which features the musicians, singers and dancers of Feret el Negoum More details can be seen about the dancers can be seen if you click on the links.

The musicians of Fer’et el Negoum have been the resident orchestra at Raqia Hassan's Ahlan Wa Sahlan Festival for 5 years and more recently the Nile group festival in Cairo Egypt. They have entertained festival participants and accompanied “guest” performers from around the world.

Having travelled twice to the UK for the Farha Festival and twice to Finland to perform at the Masrah International Oriental dance festival in Helsinki, intially in 2002, then back again after popular demand in 2004, accompany Mahmoud Reda and his troupe of male dancers as they teamed up with female counterparts from the Masrah dance company.

“The centerpiece of the whole spectacle was the El Negoum Orchestra” wrote one review in “Ishtar” the Oriental dance magazine for Finnish dance lovers “ The power and sometimes also the unexpectedness of live music gave enormous stimulation both to the new and experienced dancers, The intimacy of the music as well as the presence of the musicians carried the dancers through the night".

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