Cancelled: Crescendo at SIFF
2020-03-25 20:30 - 22:15 UTC | SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N,, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
This event has been cancelled!
As part of a peace summit, a world-famous German conductor (Peter Simonischek; THE INTERPRETER, SJFF 2019) creates an orchestra of specially chosen Israeli and Palestinian youth musicians. But can music overcome the feelings of mistrust and suspicion striking chords and shrill notes onstage and off? It takes all the conductor’s skill and resources—and divulging his own tragic story—to overcome the discord and teach them how to achieve harmony, leading to a tense and emotional finale.
Academy Award-nominated director Dror Zahavi has united an impressive supporting cast of Israeli and Palestinian non-actors playing the students into a convincing ensemble, who fight, argue, laugh, and make music together in this dramatic, humanist hymn about forgiveness, reconciliation, and the astounding power of music.
Winner of the 2019 Audience Prize at the Festival of German Film.
Dror Zahavi | Drama | Germany, Israel, Italy | 2019 | English, German w/English subtitles | 112m
Rating: PG-13
Special Guest Intro and performance by Bram Schenck, principal clarinetist for Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra and member of the National Youth Orchestra

Arabic Online Karaoke Party
2020-04-03 18:00 - 21:00 UTC | WA
Make sure to have your Zoom app on mobile phone or tablet installed, it is free. Or, install Zoom player on your desktop.
Find your karaoke music on YouTube and add the link on the Facebook event.

Silkroad Home Sessions with Kinan Azmeh
2020-04-19 12:00 - 12:30 UTC | WA
Silkroad Home Sessions with Kinan Azmeh

Sunday, April 19, 2020
3:00 PM 3:30 PM

Bringing you music from our homes to yours. ❤️ #songsofcomfort
Location: Facebook
Date: Sunday, April 19
Time: 3:00pm EDT / 12:00pm PDT
Artist: Kinan Azmeh
Repertoire: TBA
Please note, this session will not be saved following the LIVE transmission.

Postponed: New Is Old Is New with Rahim Alhaj
2020-04-25 14:00 - 16:00, 2020-04-26 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | The KEXP Gathering Space, 472 1st Ave N, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States
IN COLLABORATION WITH RAHIM ALHAJ
“One of the top oud players in the world” – San Francisco Chronicle
Felix Mendelssohn – Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde Overture
Rahim Alhaj – Letters from Iraq
Rahim Alhaj – Concerto for Oud and Orchestra
Rahim Alhaj, Oud
Nick Baker, Cajón & Riq

Silkroad Home Sessions with Hadi Eldebek
2020-05-04 09:00 - 09:30 UTC | WA
Silkroad Home Sessions with Hadi Eldebek

Monday, May 4, 2020
12:00 PM 12:30 PM

Bringing you music from our homes to yours. ❤️ #songsofcomfort
Location: Facebook
Date: Monday, May 4
Time: 12:00pm EDT / 9:00am PDT
Artist: Hadi Eldebek
Repertoire: Solo Arabic Music

Justice Beats
2020-05-30 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | WA
JUSTICE BEATS

SCHEDULE / EASTERN STANDARD TIME!

The Peace Poets / 1 pm. (10am PST)
DJ Sarouna / 1:15pm (10:15am PST)
Clarissa Bitar / 1:50pm (10:50am PST
Ty Defoe / 2:15pm (11:15am PST)
John Scott-Richardson / 2:35pm (11:35am PST)
Dakota Camacho / 2:50pm (11:50am PST)
Rebel Betty / 3:15pm (12:15pm PST)
Emmanual Candelario / Peace Poets / 3:55pm (12:55pm PST)
Yadira De La Riva / 4:05pm (1:05pm PST)
Tef Poe / 4:20pm (1:20pm PST)
Agile One / 5:05pm (2:05pm PST)
Pacia Elaine / 5:35pm (2:35pm PST)
Makeda Kravitz / 5:45pm (2:45pm PST)
Frantz Jerome / Peace Poets / 6:20pm (3:20pm PST)
MarshaMayI? / 6:25pm (3:25pm PST)
Lyriq Tye / 6:55pm (3:55pm PST)

https://www.justicebeats.com/lineup

Queen Naija at Marymoor Park
2020-06-06 19:00 UTC | Marymoor Park, 6046 West Lake Sammamish Parkway NE, Redmond, WA, 98052, United States
As a little girl growing up outside Detroit, Queen Naija started singing in church at the age of three and writing her own songs in third grade. Although she kept up with her singing and songwriting as she got older—and even cut a few records in a local studio—her focus shifted when she and her former husband found fame online with their wildly popular YouTube channel. But when their marriage fell apart last year, Queen returned to her lifelong passion and released a powerfully unapologetic single that shares her side of the story.

Arabs Nightlife (Sahra Arabia)
2020-06-25 20:00 - 21:00 UTC | WA
Join our board member Oussama and his friends for Arabs Nightlife (Sahra Arabia). We will have our local artist Marwa singing Fairouz during our live streaming on Facebook.

Community Meeting with Bassam Saba
2020-06-29 09:00 - 10:00 UTC | WA
Silkroad’s Global Musician Workshop Faculty Artist Bassam Saba will present a solo performance/discussion live on Facebook, providing a general overview of her style/culture/instrument, and sharing her own personal and artistic story. The presentation will also feature live musical selections and an interactive Q&A.
Visit facebook.com/silkroadproject to watch.

Monday, June 29, 2020
12:00 PM 1:00 PM (EST) – 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (PST)

Seffarine: Edmonds City Park Concert
2020-08-16 17:00 - 18:00 UTC | Edmonds City Park, 600 3rd Ave S, Edmonds, WA, 98020, United States
Seffarine’s international blend of sounds features soulful Moroccan singer Lamiae Naki and flamenco guitarist Nat Hulskamp. Their music embraces and extends Naki’s rich heritage, which spans from Moorish Spain to the Sahara, by mixing Arabic Andalusi music with Manuel Gutierrez’s explosive flamenco footwork, the grooves of acclaimed bassist Damian Erskine and the exotic instrumentation of Persian master multi-instrumentalist Bobak Salehi. These diverse backgrounds meld into an intoxicating blend of ancient and modern that Bass Player Magazine describes as a “gorgeous intersection of Spanish flamenco, Arabic and Andalusian music, Persian classical, and jazz”.

Seffarine takes its name from the ancient metalworking square in Lamiae’s home city of Fes, Morocco. Her family is well known in the Seffarine as master metalworkers continuing the tradition today. The square dates back to the 9th century and is famous for the complex rhythms that can be heard from the blacksmiths’ hammers.

Amal Murkus Accompanied by Fadi Deeb, in Virtual Concert
2020-09-13 09:00 - 11:00 UTC | WA
Amal Murkus Accompanied by Fadi Deeb, in Virtual Concert

Sunday, September 13, 2020
12:00 PM 2:00 PM EST (9:00 AM 11:AM PST)

Please click here to register for the concert.

Simon Shaheen & Naomi Shihab Nye in Concert + Talkback
2020-09-18 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
7:30 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 18, 2020
Simon Shaheen & Naomi Shihab Nye in Concert + Talkback
Free with RSVP; $10 suggested donation
RSVP for streaming link
Let music and poetry end your week on a sweet note with a night of exclusive performances by world renowned artists, musician Simon Shaheen and writer/poet Naomi Shihab Nye, followed by a live talkback!
Simon Shaheen dazzles his listeners as he deftly leaps from traditional Arabic sounds to jazz and Western classical styles. His soaring technique, melodic ingenuity, and unparalleled grace have earned him international acclaim as a virtuoso on the ‘oud and violin. As a composer, Shaheen has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, the Jerome Foundation, Continental Harmony, and Yellow Springs Institute. In addition to performing with his two bands, Qantara and the Near Eastern Music Ensemble, Shaheen tours as a solo artist internationally and as a lecturer throughout the academic world promoting awareness to Arab music through numerous lectures and workshop presentations. Shaheen is currently an instructor at Berklee School of Music, and directs the Arabic Music Retreat each summer at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
Naomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father was a Palestinian refugee and her mother an American of German and Swiss descent, and Nye spent her adolescence in both Jerusalem and San Antonio, Texas. Nye is the recipient of numerous honors and awards for her work, including the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Book Critics Circle and the Paterson Poetry Prize, among others. The Poetry Foundation named Nye the Young People’s Poet Laureate for 2019 to 2021, making her the first Arab American to earn this honor. Known for poetry that lends a fresh perspective to ordinary events, people, and objects, Nye’s experience of both cultural difference and different cultures has influenced much of her work. Nye is also considered one of the leading female poets of the American Southwest. In addition to poetry, Nye has written fiction for children, poetry and song recordings, and poetry translations. She has also published a book of essays and edited several anthologies.

Lost In Translation — Album Launch Party + Talkback with Omar Offendum & Thanks Joey
2020-09-24 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
8 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020
Lost In Translation — Album Launch Party + Talkback with Omar Offendum & Thanks Joey
Free with RSVP; $10 suggested donation
RSVP for streaming link
AANM is excited to host the launch party for new album Lost In Translation by Omar Offendum and Thanks Joey — tune in and jam out with us to live performance of the album by Omar and Joey + talkback hosted by Arij Mikati!
Journey through the Syrian-Pacific with your own personal dragoman Omar Offendum, along with his partner-in-thyme Thanks Joey. This Shamreeki sonic saga is equal parts nostalgic and futuristic. Featuring samples from some iconic Syrian films, and a dizzying dose of Damascene bilingualism, Lost In Translation is a celebratory love-letter to this very merry and hairy Arabian way of life in the California Califate of Los Shamgeles.
Lyrics by Omar Offendum | Music by Thanks Joey

Virtual Artist Talks - Amal Ziad Kaawash
2020-10-11 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Please click here to register for this event.
Please join us for a new episode of virtual Artist Talks featuring Palestinian visual artist, vocalist and songwriter, Amal Kaawash on Sunday October 11, at 12:00 Noon US EST; 7:00 PM Palestine Time. Amal will talk about her life growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, her art and musical careers, a selection of which will be presented during the program. The event will be hosted on Zoom. Registration is required. To register for the event please go to the Palestine Museum US website (link in bio) and navigate to events.

Qalam wa Kalima – a virtual celebration!
2020-10-17 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Join us on Saturday, October 17 for Qalam wa Kalima – a virtual celebration! 2pm EST
Qalam wa Kalima pays tribute to the enduring legacy of al-Rabita’s members through a dynamic program, including:

Readings of al-Rabita members’ work by some of the most well-known Arab American writers and scholars
A special musical performance by Michael Ibrahim
An exclusive tour of our new digital exhibition featuring a number of rare original printings of books and other materials by al-Rabita members

Tickets are $100. All proceeds will support AANM’s ongoing mission to preserve and uplift Arab American cultural heritage.

Featuring:

Diana Abu Jaber is the award-winning author of Origin, Crescent, Arabian Jazz and The Language of Baklava. Her writing has appeared in Good Housekeeping, Ms., Salon, Vogue, Gourmet, The New York Times, The Nation, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.

Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi-born poet, novelist, scholar and translator. He has published two collections of poetry and four novels, which have been translated in fourteen languages. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times and many pan-Arab newspapers and journals. In 2003, Antoon co-produced About Baghdad, a documentary about the lives of Iraqis under occupation. He is co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya and associate professor at NYU.

Carol W. N. Fadda grew up in Beirut, Lebanon where she earned her B.A. and M.A. from AUB, and later her Ph.D. from Purdue University. Her first book, Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging (NYU Press, 2014) contests negative representations of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. She serves as the editor of the Critical Arab American Studies book series at Syracuse University Press.

Khaled Mattawa, poet born and raised in Benghazi, Libya, relocated to the U.S. as a teenager in 1979. Mattawa has been awarded several Pushcart Prizes and the PEN Award for Literary Translation, in addition to a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University and a MacArthur fellowship. He is currently on faculty at the University of Michigan.

Omar Offendum is a Syrian American hip-hop artist, designer, poet and peace activist. He was born in Saudi Arabia, raised in Washington, D.C., and now lives in Los Angeles, California.

My Name is the People of Palestine
2020-10-24 - 2020-10-25 | WA
“My Name is the People of Palestine” cultural event will take place on October 24-25 at 10:00am PST featuring Palestinian music and culture.

About this Event

Join us for a free online concert on Oct 24th-25th, 2020 at 10am PST/ 8pm Jerusalem to globally celebrate Palestinian music and culture together.
Music director Saleheddine Bedoui will be leading Aswat Ensemble with these featured artists:

Amal Murkus
Boutros Rouhana
Charbel Rouhana
Shadia Mansour
Reem Talhami
George Bisharat

Featured Poets:

Mourid Barghouti
Tamim Barghouti
Anis Chouehene

Two new songs by Boutros and Charbel Rouhana will premier at the concert.
This event will be streamed live on Facebook, Zoom, and Youtube, reserve your front-row seat and please share.
Translation will emailed to you and made available at Zawaya.org.
This concert is sponsored by: Zawaya, Middle East Children’s Alliance, and Palestinian Youth Movement.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/my-name-is-the-people-of-palestine-oct-24th-oct-25th-tickets-117583843441

My Name is the People of Palestine: cultural event
2020-10-24 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
“My Name is the People of Palestine” cultural event will take place on October 24-25 at 10:00am PST featuring Palestinian music and culture.

About this Event

Join us for a free online concert on Oct 24th-25th, 2020 at 10am PST/ 8pm Jerusalem to globally celebrate Palestinian music and culture together.
Music director Saleheddine Bedoui will be leading Aswat Ensemble with these featured artists:

Amal Murkus
Boutros Rouhana
Charbel Rouhana
Shadia Mansour
Reem Talhami
George Bisharat

Featured Poets:

Mourid Barghouti
Tamim Barghouti
Anis Chouehene

Two new songs by Boutros and Charbel Rouhana will premier at the concert.
This event will be streamed live on Facebook, Zoom, and Youtube, reserve your front-row seat and please share.
Translation will emailed to you and made available at Zawaya.org.
This concert is sponsored by: Zawaya, Middle East Children’s Alliance, and Palestinian Youth Movement.

Oud Taqaseem Against Lung Cancer
2020-11-01 - 2020-11-02 | WA
Raise money for Project Equity, whose mission is “to bring together a multidisciplinary research team and community stakeholders to understand and develop strategies for addressing the underlying factors and mechanisms of lung cancer disparities among Black Americans,” by tuning in to daily concerts with classical musician Oud Taqaseem on Facebook Live.
Learn more about Project Equity here.
Daily at 10pm every day in November!

Amal Murkus Accompanied by Fadi Deeb, in Virtual Concert: Restreamed
2020-11-08 09:00 - 11:00 UTC | WA
Re-Streaming of Amal Murkus Accompanied by Fadi Deeb, in Virtual Concert

Sunday, November 8, 2020
12:00 PM 1:00 PM EST

Please click here to register for the concert.

Details TBA: Kinan Azmeh
2020-11-18 | WA
New York, November 18 @SUNY Downstate Medical Center in duo with Guitarist Ayman Fanous , details TBA.

Celebration of Life: A Tribute to Michel Merhej and Bassam Saba
2021-01-31 11:00 - 12:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Join us for a Celebration of Life honoring the lives and achievements Michel Merhej (1928-2020) and Bassam Saba (1958-2020), master musicians and faculty members of the Arabic Music Retreat. Both lost their lives to COVID-19 in 2020. Simon Shaheen is curating the program to salute and honor them both. The event will be on-line on Zoom.
The event will take place at 2:00PM Eastern Daylight Time (New York time).

Please RSVP for the Zoom event using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/161…/WN_LDe4wMJTS4-jRL1fpS1JNw

Photo credits: Bassam Saba photo by Hanan Debwania (2016). Michel Merhej photo by Eric Crawford (2019)
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Free Virtual Screening of the Film "Recollection" by Palestinian Director Kamal Aljafari
2021-02-27 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | WA
To register for this event please click here.
To view the film trailer please click here.
The following description is by Shimrit Lee writing for Warscapes.com
About the Film

Kamal Aljafari remembers when Jaffa was transformed into civil war-torn Beirut. Under the direction of Menachem Golan, the production team of The Delta Force (1986) created urban mayhem, arranging for the explosion of real buildings in the staging of a fictional battle. Aljafari recalls standing on the side of the road with a group of other children, eagerly awaiting a glimpse of Chuck Norris racing by in a van with the name of their school, “St. Joseph,” printed on the door. Years later, while flipping through television channels in a hotel room in London, Aljafari was shocked to recognize this scene. He sat on the bed mesmerized, not by the action shots but by the background: a clear documentation of the Jaffa of his childhood, a city which has since been destroyed, renovated, gentrified and rebuilt beyond recognition.
Aljafari’s latest film Recollection is composed entirely of footage from Israeli and American fiction features shot in Jaffa from the 1960s to the 1990s, primarily of the so-called bourekas genre that dramatized tense romantic relationships between Mizrahi male “thugs” and Ashkenazi female elites. Jaffa provided the perfect setting to construct new Israeli narratives on top of emptied Palestinian ruins. As Aljafari explains, Palestinians were effectively “uprooted in reality and in fiction.” In Recollection, Aljafari removes the Israeli actors to give the stage to the people who appear by chance in the background of these shots, including both Palestinians and Iraqi Jews who were settled in the city, enacting what he describes as “cinematic justice.”
Aljafari was born in neighboring Ramle in 1972 and later emigrated to Germany to attend film school. His previous films include The Roof (2006), which follows him on a return visit to the homes of his parents and grandmother in Palestine, and Port of Memory (2009), which traces the eviction of his mother’s family from their home in Ajami. Aljafari’s dark humor and silent communication style liken his work to that of Palestinian filmmakers Elia Sulieman and Michel Khleifi.
Unlike his previous films, Recollection has no central protagonist. Aljafari moves through the found-footage, creating the illusion of a dreamer sleep-walking through the city with a handheld camera. While Aljafari sometimes describes this unseen cameraman as himself, each excavated memory is shared, belonging to his grandfather, his mother, his neighbors, and others who cannot return. Each footstep holds a certain urgency; as Aljafari explains, “I walk everywhere, sometimes hesitant and sometimes lost. I wander through the city; I wander through the memories. I film everything I encounter because I know it no longer exists. I return to a lost time.”

Opera Singer Zeina Barhoum in Virtual Concert at Palestine Museum US
2021-03-21 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Please click here to register for this event.
Please click here to hear Zeina’s trailer.
Renowned opera singer Zeina Barhoum will perform in a virtual concert at Palestine Museum US. She will sing in Arabic and other languages, including the songs “Sanarjeo Yawman سنرجع يوما”, “Jerusalem زهرة المدائن”، “Oh mio babbino caro” and several others.

Boston Stave Sessions: Festival Night 2: Meklit and Kinan Azmeh City Band
2021-04-22 16:30 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Kinan Azmeh, clarinetist and composer, has gained international recognition for his rich sound and distinctive compositional voice across diverse musical genres. A native of Syria and a graduate of New York’s Julliard School, Azmeh has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Qatar Philharmonic and the Syrian Sympony Orchestra among others.

Meklit is an Ethio-American vocalist, songwriter, composer, and cultural activist, making music that sways between cultures and continents. Known for her electic stage presence, innovative take on Ethio-Jazz, and her emotive live shows, Meklit has rocked stages from Addis Ababa to San Francisco, to NYC, London, Montreal, Nairobi, Rome, Zurich, Helsinki, Rio, Cairo, and more.

Layale Chaker, violin/composer Featuring her quintet and special guest Kinan Azmeh
2021-04-29 16:30 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Online

PRESENTED BY

HANCHER

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Thursday, April 29, 2021, 7:30 pm

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Layale Chaker was a winner of the Silkroad Seeds inaugural 2020 award—the latest in an impressive series of honors. She and her husband, Kinan Azmeh, are familiar to Hancher audiences from their participation in the Embracing Complexity programing. In this performance created for Hancher, Chaker and her ensemble will perform music from her critically acclaimed Inner Rhyme album as well as new music from the forthcoming Bards project—a celebration of musicianship and musicians beyond the borders of confinement and geography—performed here for the first time.

Virtual Pride Concert feat. INDKNA | + talkback
2021-06-26 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
4 p.m. PDT/7 p.m. EDT Saturday, Jun. 26, 2021
Online Livestream
FREE with RSVP
Closing out Pride Month, AANM and YallaPunk are excited to present a debut virtual concert by INDKNA, a Yemeni and Yemeni American band of immigrant and gender nonconforming women. Following the performance, join the band for a talkback moderated by YallaPunk founder Rana Fayez.
INDKNA is a group of Yemeni and Yemeni-American artists and songwriters who offer alternative and empowering narratives for Yemeni women and minorities. As a band of immigrant and gender nonconforming women, INDKNA’s music centers a radical feminist approach in its songwriting practice, as it tackles issues of bodily censorship, political unrest in Yemen and personal struggles. INDKNA uses song to reclaim the Yemeni dialect, and innovates Yemeni music through introducing experimental genres inspired by electronic music, jazz, hip-hop and classical Arabic sounds.

Musicians For Harmony: 20th Anniversary “Concert for Peace”
2021-09-11 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Musicians For Harmony returns to Merkin Hall to celebrate its 20th Anniversary with an online and in-person concert. This special event aims to elevate musical voices in the service of peace, health and equity to commemorate the victims of 9/11, Covid-19 and social injustice. The concert will feature performances by the Juilliard String Quartet, Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh with his CityBand, ETHEL and Musique Sans Frontières.

JAM3A: A Virtual Music Festival
2021-09-23 - 2021-09-26 | WA
JAM3A: A Virtual Music Festival
Thursday, Sept. 23 – Sunday, Sept. 26
AANM is excited to announce the lineup for JAM3A, a 4-day virtual music festival celebrating Arab art, talent and identity. The lineup includes audience favorites as well as names new to the AANM (virtual) stage.
Performing at JAM3A will be:

47SOUL
Alsarah & The Nubatones
Emel
Hello Psychaleppo
Medusa TN
Oddisee
Ramy Essam
REMOooOTE: Detroit-Palestine (A Poetic Societies production)

Originally planned as an in-person festival, JAM3A (Arabic for “gathering”) has moved to a virtual platform to maintain the safety of audience members during COVID-19, while also increasing accessibility to the amazing Arab artists presented as many of them are internationally based and unable to travel at this time.
Entirely free, the festival will be livestreamed across various platforms on September 23-26, 2021. In addition to musical performances, the festival will include artist talkbacks and workshops, featuring the musical and artistic talent of the Arab and Arab American community.
This event is presented in partnership with Arab.AMP, East Downtown Dearborn Development Authority, UMS and YallaPunk.

Mdou Moctar at the Crocodile
2021-09-24 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Crocodile, 2505 1st Ave, Seattle, WA, 98033, United States
Mdou Moctar immediately stands out as one of the most innovative artists in contemporary Saharan music. His unconventional interpretations of Tuareg guitar and have pushed him to the forefront of a crowded scene. Back home, he’s celebrated for his original compositions and verbose poetry, an original creator in a genre defined by cover bands. In the exterior, where Saharan rock has become one of the continents biggest musical exports, he’s earned a name for himself with his guitar moves. Mdou shreds with a relentless and frenetic energy that puts his contemporaries to shame.
