New York Oud Festival 2026 Day 7 | Huda Asfour & Armadi Tsayn 8:30pm (8pm doors) Sunday, May 31st 2026 Joe's Pub - 425 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10003 Tickets sold thorugh Joe's Pub website: https://publictheater.org/reserve/reserve?performanceNumber=54746

The final day of the festival will feature sets by Huda Asfour & Armadi Tsayn.

Huda Asfour: An observer of waves, her work unfolds across Tunisia, Palestine, Egypt, and the United States. Based between Cairo and Brooklyn, Dr. Asfour works at the intersection of song, improvisation, and collective listening. In this unplugged version of her latest solo project “Naqous”, Huda places the spoken word at the heart of the musical experience. Through oud, voice, and looping, Huda explores repetition as both memory and resistance: what returns, what insists, and what refuses to disappear. For when the storm won’t stop and all logic fails, an invitation to stand true and hold space. More of a testimony, less of a concert. A catharsis. A prayer for clarity amid the chaos.

Contemporary Armenian Folk ensemble Armadi Tsayn will be performing a number of original compositions, alongside a few classical pieces from the Anatolian region. The group is led by oud player and composer, Samuel Sjostedt, and includes Alek Surenian on percussion, Filippo Novi-Goller on bass, and Mehrpouya Daneshvar on clarinet. Mixing nodes of Jazz and Western classical, Armadi Tsayn invites listeners to experience a program that takes shapes of multiple generational sounds in real time.

The New York Oud Festival is a multi-day, multi-venue music festival that displays the oud and its versatility as it exists in New York's diverse musical culture. The NYOF celebrates the oud and its wide-ranging influence on global music culture, showcasing artists from a multitude of traditions and contexts, and demonstrating why the oud continues to be one of the world's most beloved instruments. www.newyorkoudfestival.com