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Negar Booban – US debut of female Iranian oud player!!!

Negar-Booban-3Date: Saturday, December 19, 2009
Time: 9:00pm – 11:00pm
Where: Alwan for the Arts (16 Beaver Street,New York)
Tickets: $20, available at the door and online. $15.00 student rush tickets available (with I.D.) at the door only.

Alwan for the Arts, in conjunction with Womens Voices: A Festival Across Genres and Traditions, presents: NEGAR BOOBAN (on Oud & vocals) in “Shab e Yalda” – The Birth-Night of the Sun”.

Alwan is privileged to host one of Iran’s finest musicians, oudist Negar Booban, in her U.S. debut and the final concert of “Women’s Visions: A Festival Across Genres and Traditions.” Partly accompanied by her own voice, Negar will give a solo instrumental oud performance in an expressive conceptualization of “the birth of the Sun”, based on the mythical images in Persian beliefs about “Yalda” night.

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@ SYMPHONY SPACE – EXTREMELY HUNGARY FES presents Fire + Fire: a collaborative and conceptual music-theatre work.

Extremely Hungry presents...Thu, Nov 19 at 8 pm
Sat, Nov 21 at 8 pm
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
$30; Members $25; Students $15; Day of Show $35

As part of the yearlong Extremely Hungary festival, Fire + Fire is a collaborative and conceptual music-theatre work that will explore and underscore the dual histories of musical expression and political oppression that mark Black American and Roma peoples in, respectively, the USA and Hungary. It will feature an ensemble of 16 performers from both cultures who are both deeply rooted in their ancestral traditions and intensely experimental in their expression of them. The ensemble employs a fusion of spoken word, movement and “jam sessions” to create a brand new vernacular that will spring this tale of two cultures to life.

On the Black American side these include drummer, percussionist and Gullah musicologist David Pleasant; Delta blues guitarist, vocalist and banjoist Valerie June; vocalist and violinist Mazz Swift; guitarist, banjo and kora player Ayodele Maakheru; electronic vocal maven LaTasha Nevada Diggs; and visual artist Marilys Ernst.

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