Penultimate set of the 24 Hour Ragas Live Festival at Pioneer Works 10.15.23
With the blessing of Ragas Live Festivals’ Artistic Advisor Terry Riley, Amir ElSaffar premiered this new work for 25 musicians at Pioneer Works featuring Iraqi maqam legend Hamid Al-Saadi.
Amir ElSaffar (trumpet, santur, vocal and composer) with Arun Ramamurthy (violin); Trina Basu (violin); Jake Charkey (cello); Mehrnam Rastegari (kamancheh); Firas Zreik (qanoon); George Ziadeh (oud); Farah Zahra (oud); Zafer Tawill (oud and percussion); Jay Ghandi (bansuri); Aakash Mittal (alto sax); Daro Behroozi (tenor sax); Abdulrahman Amer (trombone); Zekkereya El-magharbel (trombone); Gilbert Mansour (percussion); Swaminathan Selvaganesh (percussion, kanjira); Bashar Farranran (electric bass); Zahra Ali (vocal); Zahra Zubaydah (vocal); Mari Tanaka (tanpura); Hamid Al-Saadi (vocal).
Ragas Live Festival is produced by Pioneer Works in collaboration with NYC Radio Live, Brooklyn Raga Massive and the Society for Arts and Culture of South Asia.
Filmed by Adrien H. Tillmann. Special thanks to the Ravi Shankar Foundation and the Brooklyn Arts Council. This program was originally broadcast on www.wkcr.org.
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