A performance of traditional Qatari folk music at the opening of the festival yesterday.

 

The second annual edition of the Halal Hal Qatar Festival, which opened yesterday at Katara, depicts how people in the country lived before modernisation took over the country.

The festival, which runs until March 31 at Katara Esplanade, was inaugurated yesterday by Katara president Abdul Rahman al-Khulaifi, general manager Khalid al-Sulaiti, and festival director Mohamed al-Khulaifi along with senior officials and dignitaries.

Visitors can speak to shepherds and pet sheep and goats.

Crafts, traditional foods, photo opportunities, historical games and music, children’s activities and more are part of the programme.

The festival is open from 10am until 10pm.

 

BELOW:

1) An interior view of the ‘traditional Qatari house’ at the festival.

 

2) A model of a traditional Qatari house, complete with a vintage car parked outside, seen at Katara.


3) Some of the sheep on display in one of the barns.


4)  A shepherd taking sheep to an auction at the festival. PICTURES: Nasar T K