Duo al Roo7: Of The Sorrow Songs
Tuesday November 26th, 2024 
8pm (7:30 Doors) 
SISTERS - 900 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11238 
$20 Admission

Stick around for the Arabic music jam after the set!

Palestinian multi-instrumentalist Zafer Tawil, performs alongside friend, collaborator, and oud player Rabi Zaki Asher – a set of sorrow songs, traditional and new, that give voice to the brokenness and yearnings of our days. The textures and aesthetics of shared poetry, maqamat, and memory create vessels of song tender and wide enough to create places of safety and comfort that make room to reach into depths.

Songs from the Arabic canon stretch between sorrows of older days and ours, alongside folk songs, sufi poems and melodies, and new compositions the two performers have written together, from within the longings of recent days. In welcoming the truth and grief of one another, the two make room for new sounds to emerge from the place of shared displacements that mark the stories of each of their communities.

Jerusalem born Zafer Tawil is fluent on the violin, oud, qanun, percussion and nay. He is the most in demand musician of the Brooklyn Arabic music community, and he is the most joyful. Rabi Zaki Asher, studied the oud and Arabic maqam with Lebanese master Bassam Saba for many years, and composes and bandleads the Epichorus. He is the creative director of the Temenos Center for the Arts, a New York 501c3, and has been a vocal supporter of Palestinian liberation.