Dubai-based event production company Kenkaato has produced the first ever live public music event to be staged in the Museum of Islamic Art Park in Doha, Qatar.

The initial concert in a series of music shows planned over the coming months was headlined by Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens - also on his first ever live appearance in the Middle East - and was completely sold out. It attracted a capacity audience of 2,800 including 221 VIPs and senior members of the Qatari Royal Family.

Kenkaato is a new company established by Sarah Whitmarsh and Daryl Payne to provide imaginative, turnkey, full production solutions for all types of live events. Both have extensive experience working on a variety of large scale and high profile productions in the Middle East region. The company's brief for the MIA Park show from the Qatar Museums Authority included the provision of complete event production and co-ordinating all the technical and logistical elements needed to make it happen.

The Museums Authority were especially keen to have a single-source production company putting the show together, giving them just one point of contact. In addition to this, Kenkaato dealt with all the logistics, artist negotiation, artist liaison and travel arrangements both locally and internationally.

They also advised on a marketing plan and promotion for the series of concerts, which are intended to become a regular Doha cultural highlight.