VIFAS is proud to sponser the following Event:
When: March 6, 2005 8:00 pm
Where: Centennial Theatre (Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver)
What: Radio Kaboul: Mahwash & Friends Legends of Afghanistan.
Details:
Music at the Crossroads of Indian, Persian, and Arabic traditions. Winners of BBC 2003 World Music awards. With Spcial Guests: The Honari Family – Baluchi Music of Iran.
Ustad Farida Mahwash (vocalist), is unanimously acknowledged as the greatest female singer of Afghanistan. She is joined by top Afghani musicians in exile, including Aziz Herawi (Rubab, Sitar) one of the top Afghani instrumentalists in the world, and flutist Henri Fournier, disciple of Hariprasad Chaurasia. The group also brings together several percussion instruments: the tablâ of Indian origin and the Afghan zirbaghali (similar to the Iranian zarb and the darbukka of the Islamic Middle East and North Africa) thus reflecting the various facets of Afghan music and influences.
This concert is co-presented with Centennial Theatre, and with the collaboration of the Vancouver Institute of Afghan Studies (www.vifas.org).
Tickets $28.50/$33.50 on sale at Centennial Theatre Box Office: 604-984-4484, or online at Ticketstonight.ca.
For more info on the artists, visit: www.bbcradio.co.uk
