Tuesday May 26: NY Oud Festival Day 5 - Michael Burdi, Adam Good
Sisters - 900 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11238
8 PM (7:30 doors)
$20 advance ($25 door) - Get Tickets
Michael Joseph Burdi is an oud player and composer from Brooklyn, NY. Of Syrian/Lebanese and Italian descent, he combines influences from Middle Eastern scales (maqamat), Western harmony and North African rhythms in his original compositions. This performance will be a collection of original songs with influences from Levantine, Maghrebi and Turkish sources, along with traditional songs played on oud accompanied by synth/keys and percussion.
Adam Good is a Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist and composer working with contemporary modal music in the traditional styles of Turkey, Greece and Eastern Europe. He will present his Balkan Oud Trio, a project rooted in the rich melodic and rhythmic traditions of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, and beyond.
Friday May 29: NY Oud Festival Day 6 - Ameer Armaly
Barzakh Cafe, 147 Utica Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11213
6 PM
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Exploration of Oud Playing in the Twentieth Century: a guided listening presentation and performance with Ameer Armaly. This program will present, through recordings, the evolution of oud playing throughout the twentieth century in the Arab World. Initially relegated exclusively to supporting a vocalist with simple responses and short improvisations, the oud has evolved into an instrument for expression of virtuosity, compositional creativity, and cultural exchange. The presentation will be followed by a performance.
Born in South Carolina, Ameer Armaly was exposed to the oud and Arabic music in general from an early age through his uncle who played the oud. He went on to study under Simon and Najib Shaheen. Ameer performs as an instrumentalist with a variety of artists and leads an Arabic music ensemble which performs regularly around the New York area, cultivating local talent and reviving the great Arabic instrumental and vocal music of the twentieth century. More …
Sunday May 31: NY Oud Festival Day 7 - Huda Asfour | Armadi Tsayn
Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003
8:30 PM (8 PM Doors)
$36 plus food/drink minimum - Reserve Seats
In this unplugged version of her latest solo project “Naqous,” Huda Asfour 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. More …