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Ehdeniyat 2011
Segara launched Ehdeniyat as a Star lighting and shining
Written by Ehdeniyat team
Ehdeniyat festival has been initiated in a lighting night whereas Helene Segara has inaugurated the opening night wearing a white dress as a star coming from the sky of Ehden to light the stage. Segara sang, prayed, kneed and danced with big screens at her back exposing several photos showing the beautiful Ehden over seasons and Ehdeniyat ads, moreover the lights turned the blue night into waving night, so the mountain was lighted, the cypress trees were part of the audience that exceeded the number of 3000 spectators which is more than the number of seats.
“Because Lebanon has a place in the heart” as Segara said, she sang for him, declared and confessed her love to the mountains that held her, noting that when she saw the mountain of “Saydet el Hosn” and the Lady Mary protecting it, she knew that she is in the right place.
Hour and a half Helene Segara sang with a musical band composed of four persons that accompanied musically and smoothly her voice that she played with it to suit the night of Ehden and called the audience several times as a lover who misses the other.
The special issue is that Segara sang in four languages, so she was Lebanese in excellence, she dropped her voice when she sang to her grand-mother, and raised it when she sang for love.
Hour and a half Segara didn’t rest and the inauguration night was attended by the following ministers: Mr. Fadi Abboud, Mr. Gebrane Bassil, Mr. Gaby Layoun and Mr. Youssef Saadeh and the following deputies: Mr. Emil Rahmeh, Mr. Estefan Douaihi and Mr. Selim Karam.
Also, the opening was attended by the head of Almidan NGO, Mrs. Rima Franghieh, Mr. Robert Frangieh, Mr. Toni Sleiman Frangieh, the head of Zgahrta union municipality, Mr. Toni Sleiman, the head of Zgharta – Ehden municipality, Mr. Toufic Moawad, and big number of people of politics, arts, culture and fans of Helene Segara that crowded the stadium.
Eleven o’clock the lights of stage were turned off to be turned on again on Saturday with the warm of the oriental music and Tina Favazza and as many artists say: Ehdeniyat is now an advanced event on the summer Lebanese calendar representing the advanced Ehden as always.