Ismaili Centre Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Majority of the guests came to the Ismaili Centre for the first time and were mainly from Spain and Portugal.
The Flamenco Concert by Rocío Márquez who has been lauded by the world classical heritage music as "the voice of a new generation of cante jondo singers in Spanish" has for over a decade, ever since she won the Lámpara Minera Award at the Cante de las Minas Festival in 2008, become a leading light of the classical flamenco heritage scene. There was deep appreciation of this form of music from the members who attended the event.