Music starts at 8pm
Full dinner menu available
Seating is first come first serve
Hot off the NY Oud Festival, Brooklyn Maqam – the back room’s longest running monthly music series – returns with a special performance by
ORCHESTRA FARHA
Zahra Alzubaida – voice
Sami Abu Shumays – violin
Sarah Mueller – violin
Gideon Forbes – nay, saxophone
Amir ElSaffer – trumpet
Josh Farrar – electric guitar
Mohammad Araki – keyboard
Marwan Allam – bass
Johnny Farraj – percussion
Alber Baseel – percussion
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
