Sam Weinberg 2024 Residency
March 17, 2024
7pm doors 8pm music, full dinner menu available, seating first-come first-served
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7:30pm doors 8pm music, full dinner menu available, seating is first come first-served
Brooklyn Maqam presents New York Oud Festival Day 1
The New York Oud Festival is a multi-day, multi-venue music festival that displays the oud and its versatility as it exists in New York’s diverse musical culture.
performing live in the back room
Brandon Terzic has performed with everyone from rising Sudanese pop Diva Alsarah to master composer Henry Threadgill. Drawing on his blues guitar roots, he absorbed the wellspring of Malian griot and Moroccan Gnawa traditions, as well as the downtown NYC improv aesthetic, and forged it into the sonic calligraphy of the Arabic Oud. Alongside cellist Rufus Cappadocia and percussionist Matt Kilmer, Brandon leads the transcendental Trio Xalam.
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. His musicianship on guitar, Turkish ud, tanbur, and knowledge of Turkish makam has made Adam a fixture of the Balkan and Middle Eastern music scenes in the US and abroad. He plays with the ensembles Dolunay (Turkish music), Brenna MacCrimmon, Greek Judas (heavy metal Greek rebetika), Pontic Firebird (Greek Pontic), and with clarinet master Souren Baronian’s ensemble Taksim.
7pm doors 8pm music, full dinner menu available, seating is first-come first-served
performing live in the back room
George Crotty
Compass Trio
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7pm doors 8pm music, full dinner menu available, seating is first-come first-served
7pm doors 8pm music, full dinner menu available, table seating first-come first-served
performing live in the back room
Gian Perez & gabby-fluke mogul
Lesley Mok & Shara Lunon
Sonya Belaya
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doors 7pm music 8pm, seating is first-come first-served
performing live in the back room
ARLEN HART GINSBURG TRIO
reflective & playful chamber-folk compositions
Evan Harris – guitar
Alix Tucou – trombone
Arlen Hart Ginsburg – keyboard
+ opening set by EVAN HARRIS BAND
7:30pm doors, 8pm music
Brooklyn Maqam presents live in the back room
Sami Sings Umm Kulthum
Multi-instrumentalist Sami Abu Shumays returns to Sisters to perform the music of Umm Kulthum. For this special performance, Sami puts down his violin to sing several classic, full-length compositions that were written for and made famous by the one and only Umm Kulthum.
Featuring:
Sami Abu Shumays, vocals
Insia Malek, violin
Sarah Mueller, violin
Gideon Forbes, nay
Gabriel Lavin, oud
Johnny Farraj, riqq
Alber Baseel, tabla
About Sami Abu Shumays: One of the leading Arab violinists in the U.S., Sami Abu Shumays is internationally known as a master of the maqam system. He is co-author of the acclaimed book Inside Arabic Music (Oxford University Press 2019), He has a passion for Maqam – teaching; oral tradition – that include a YouTube series “Maqam Lessons,” and his contributions to Maqam World. Co-founder and director of the NYC-based Arabic music and dance ensemble Zikrayat, Sami has also recently released his first solo album Circles.
A second-generation Palestinian-American, Sami originally studied Western music before traveling to the Arab World to reconnect with his roots. He studied with Alfred Gamil in Cairo; Mohamed Qasas, Abdel-Basit Bakkar, and Abdel-Minaim Senkary in Aleppo; and Simon Shaheen and Yusuf Kassab in New York.
Stick around for the Arabic music jam after the set!
$20 at the door
7pm doors 8pm music Full dinner menu available
performing live in the back room
Miriam Elhajli
“Miriam Elhajli has carved out a distinctive sound that draws equally on jazz, 70s South American nuevo cancion and levantine sounds, reflecting her Venezuelan-Moroccan heritage. She cuts loose with an expressive, constantly mutable voice, likes fingerpicking her acoustic guitar in odd tunings and writes intriguing, thoughtfully imagistic lyrics.” – New York Music Daily
Caracas Trio
Caracas Trio is a New York-based Venezuelan musical group with a captivating sound that blends traditional folkoric styles with contemporary compositional flair and improvisation.
Gabriel Chakarji — piano, keyboards, vocals
Juan Diego Villalobos — vibraphone, percussion, vocals
Daniel Prim — drums, percussion, vocals
+ all night selector Omo Igi
$20 at the door, cash/Venmo at the door (no advance tickets)