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 …
Wednesday, June 3: Souq El-Jazz
Nublu Classic, 62 Loisaida Ave, New York, NY 10009, USA
Doors 7:30 PM
violin/vocals | Renata Choglo (Portland, OR)
vocals/guitar | Mohammad Salah Aly (New York, NY)
trombone | Khalid Razick (Boston, MA)
keys | Mohammad Araki (San Fransisco, CA)
drums | Julian Pavone (Boston, MA)
bass | Marwan Allam (New York, NY)
oud | Hussam Bahloul (Boston, MA)
hand drums | Ghassan Sawalhi (Boston, MA)
Arabic Jazz Fusion ensemble of the collective Souq el-Jum3a. Presenting original jazzy compositions and reimagination of old songs from the Arab world. Band members are of diverse musical backgrounds and geographical location around the US who all merge classical arabic/maqam music and jazz.
Wednesday, Jun 10: Layale Chaker | Kinan Azmeh & Kyle Sanna
Barbès, 376 9th st, Brooklyn, New York
First set:
Ahl al Thara, violinist-composer Layale Chaker’s new work-in-progress project, is rooted in song as inheritance and as offering. Drawing from melodies and recitations passed down through her mother and elders, alongside reimagined songs from South Lebanon and Galilee, Layale weaves an intimate songbook of remembrance, tenderness and return, received, reshaped in the present and offered onward.
Joined by Ryan al Solh (guitar) and Carmen Quill (bass), more …