BROOKLYN MAQAM presents: MEGUMI & FRIENDS — live event
Brooklyn Maqam is an organization dedicated to presenting Middle Eastern (in particular, Arabic) music, with the goals of expanding its audience, preserving it as an art form, and building community centered around the music.THIS MONTH:MEGUMI & FriendsMEGUMI & Friends premieres Grenades on the Dance Floor, a new suite of compositions by violinist and composer MEGUMI, commissioned by the American Composers Forum. Each piece is a vessel for the stories of women from Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and Japan -- voices once silenced, forgotten, or buried beneath wars and distorted experience, yet leaving footsteps in our bones. Forged in silence and remembrance, these compositions trace what history could not hold --what sank beneath the noise, but never disappeared. Infused with elements of jazz, Arabic maqam, and Japanese lyricism, the compositions are shaped by asymmetrical rhythmsthat mirror the tension between erasure and endurance.MEGUMI, violin & compositionsBrian Prunka, oudZach Lapidus,
Starts: 2025-08-13T19:00:16Z
Ends: 2025-08-13T21:30:16Z
Where: 376 9th Street, New York 11215, United States
Price: $22.5