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[PAST EVENT] CANCELED - Songs of Syria - concert of traditional muwashshat
March 21, 2020
7:30pm
Johnny Farraj, percussionist, Arab music scholar, and creator of the website maqamworld will join us for our performance which features some of the real gems of the traditional repertoire. A freewill donation will be collected for The White Helmets a volunteer group of trained medical evacuation personnel who operate in the most dangerous areas in Syria. They have saved the lives of over 100,000 people over the last 5 years. Our concert is supported by the James H. Critchfield Endowment for Middle Eastern Studies. For more information, please contact the ensemble’s director, [[akrasm, Anne K. Rasmussen]].
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[[akrasm, Anne K. Rasmussen]]