Tonight in the Kingdom of Jordan

Tonight Ridha played at the Kingdom of Jordan to a packed crowd. It's always fun for me to see how new people to Ridha's music react to him...and boy did they! The cheers were deafening as he played song after song to the appreciative crowd. He opened up with a little swing number then went into a Tunisian song "Lamouni elly Gharou meni." Wow...I don't know what the original song sounded like but I know he "Ridhafied" it as only he can and I know from the reaction of the crowd it was even more special because of it. So many highlights but I think for me it was seeing everyone connecting to Ridha's roots. In a crowd like this you expect them to enjoy the wide array of arabic tunes, but everyone loved them. It's always fun to see people cheer Ridha, whether they are Arabic, Italian, French or American but tonight seeing him touch people from countries that connect to his roots was very special, very special indeed.