UAE celebrates Shaikh Hamdan, Maktoum, Ahmad weddings

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For the full story, go to: https://gn24.ae/8224aa06972b000  All eyes are on Dubai World Trade Centre this afternoon as the country prepares to celebrate the wedding reception of the three sons of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, from 4pm. We spoke to Awadh Al Azani the band leader of Al Ayalah, the band that welcomed the guests.     #GulfNews #RoyalWedding

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00:00So can you tell us a bit more about what you're doing here today, what your role will be?

00:09Today they asked me for one card to come for the marriage for the Sheikh's son, for the

00:16Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid.

00:18We are coming with my group to do that song for the name of Ayala in Arabic.

00:28I'm coming maybe around 7 o'clock we stay here.

00:327am?

00:337am.

00:34So you've been here all day?

00:35Yeah.

00:36Wow.

00:37Then I don't know, maybe need any more or it's finished, I don't know.

00:41And you've brought how many people here today?

00:44For my group we have 75 people.

00:47And they're all playing drums?

00:50Yeah, they're playing the drums 10 person and for the line it's come 35.

00:58How much of an honour is this for you and your band to be playing at the Sheikh's wedding?

01:03I want to do that, this party, you know because this is for the Sheikh, I am for the Sheikh,

01:10all my people are for the Sheikh, everybody is feeling happy today, inshallah it will

01:14be all fine, inshallah.

01:17So what are you playing?

01:20Playing that's the name is Ayala.

01:24This is the old one, maybe it's come start for 1951, yeah that's in Al Ain, I'm coming

01:33from Al Ain.

01:35This is come between 1951, the name is Ayala.

01:41This is for the Sheikh Zayed, Allah yabhama, he make this one, this group.

01:49But the old man for this group is die now, the son is coming, we try to come up more

01:58than.

01:59I don't want to finish this song or this group, the name of Ayala, yes.

02:05So this is close to your heritage and your tradition, what you play, the music, is close

02:10to Emirati heritage and tradition, huh?

02:14Yeah.

02:15We have some for the Emiratis, we have something, it's because the words for this group is come

02:22from Saudi Arabia, yeah.

02:25Some song, now the new song is come from UAE, yeah.

02:29We have more from UAE.

02:31Today we have three for the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, we can sing it today and there,

02:36inshallah.

02:37So Ayala is the name of the group?

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