Islamic Arts

Inspired from Nasheed Extravaganza also known as NEXT, our new ISAC webmaster, Azri Bohari took the initiative to organize a nasheed competition in Ireland. The event was held at the National University of Ireland, Galway on the 25th January 2009 and it is called NEXT-Eire.

After the first debut (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) at the NEXT 2008, ISAC Studio’s nasheed team, Munawwar took the chance and entered the nasheed competition. During the event, we (Munawwar) presented two songs called Damai Yang Hilang (Peace that is gone) by Nowseeheart and a modified song called Senyum, which simply means smile. It was originally a theme song for Maybank and had appeared several times in television and radio in Malaysia. We made a set of new lyrics for the song Senyum. The “minus one” for this song is made possible with the help of Faizul and we would like to thank him for helping us even at the very last minute. The night before the event took place, Munawwar and UCD Band sang out loud the whole night as their last preparation for the event.

All contestants had performed amazingly. Well done to the champ, Muaz (RCSI) and Casper for their breathtaking performance as well as the first runner up, Atap Hijau from Cork with their wonderful songs. Not forgetting the UCD Band (which include Hijaz, ISAC’s head of linguistic dept.) singing the Michael Hearts’ top-of-the-chart song, Soutul Galway and Khairul Azhar. We would like to take this opportunity to express our utmost appreciation to the judges, Ustaz Erfino and Syed Izzat Mirwana for assessing our performance and made us the second runner up (which we thought it was pure luck). Above all, we would like to congratulate all the committees for making NEXT-Eire a success.

Before we end this update, we would like to share with you few performances from the teams that took part during the event. Thank you very much for those who came and showed their support. See you next time inshaAllah.

7th Note (1st place)

Atap Hijau (Runner up)

Munawwar (Part 1)

Munawwar (Part 2)

This report is written by Syafeeq from the Islamic Entertainment Department of ISAC Studio.

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