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July 2019
Cheikh Hamala Griot St. @ Bossa Bistro
West African Ngoni/Guitar/Banjo music from Mali
Find out more »August 2019
All Praise Duo — CD Release
Daro Behroozi - Bass Clarinet Dan Kurfirst - Drums/Percussion Opening for Afro Yaqui Music Collective releasing their album Mirror Butterfly
Find out more »Dan Kurfirst Quartet @ Bossa Bistro
A jam night of Mid East classics rounded out with jazz-styled improvisations. The Quartet performs repertoire from the Arab world filtered through the diverse musical experiences of the group's master musicians. Not to be missed! Dan Kurfirst - Percussion Brian Falkowski - Reeds Steve Arnold - Bass Spyros Pilios Koliavasilis - Oud Jam session to follow
Find out more »Nakshatra Quartet
DRIVE EAST FESTIVAL Arun Ramamurthy - Violin Trina Basu - Violin Jake Charkey - Cello DK - Percussion
Find out more »Uyghur Benefit Concert
Mehdie Leyegh - Voice Gabriel Marin - Dutar/Guitar DK - Percussion
Find out more »September 2019
Max Kutner Group
Max Kutner - Guitar Harvey Valdes - Oud Matt Darriau - Reed DK - Drums and Percussion
Find out more »Crossing Boundaries: TomChess/Dan Kurfirst @ CRS
We invite you into our sacred circle to commune with the divine through the ecstatic music, dance, and poetry of Sufism with musicians Tomchess (ney, oud) and Dan Kurfirst (daf) of the American Sufi Project and our Sufi Dance student community. This concert, curated and directed by Sufi Dance Artist Lâle Sayoko, is CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 9, and will take place on September 28, 2019 at 7 pm at CRS. Light refreshments will be served following the performance. O Lover of God, when you start whirling…
Find out more »October 2019
Afro Yaqui Music Collective – Migration, Movements, and Music
How can music connect resistance, celebration and communal survival among migrating peoples? Can music project a vision of justice? How has music been mobilized during periods of mass migration? The Afro Yaqui Music Collective, a multilingual jazz band based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, explores these questions through its multidisciplinary, activist-engaged art. The group will perform songs from the jazz opera “Mirror Butterfly: The Migrant Liberation Movement Suite” and the play “Erased: a poetic imaging on the Life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg,”…
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