Renowned trumpeter brings life to battered Beirut


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  • Saturday, 05 Dec 2020

French-Lebanese trumpet player and composer Ibrahim Maalouf performs on stage as part of Beirut Chants Festival, in Beirut, Lebanon December 4, 2020. REUTERS/Issam Abdallah

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Renowned jazz trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf delighted crowds on Friday with a concert in Beirut, bringing life to an area battered by Lebanon's economic meltdown and the catastrophic Aug. 4 port explosion.

"Because of what is happening now in the region and in Lebanon, it makes it even more important to be here, to play music in the streets, in the venues," Maalouf, a French-Lebanese citizen born in Beirut, told Reuters.

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