BRM Concert & Jam ft. Sheherazaad

Sheherazaad presents Qasr, her latest album, an experimental Hindi - Urdu project at Art Cafe. The ensemble includes Jake Charkey (cello), Mehrnam Rastegari (kamancheh), and Gilbert Mansour (percussion). The concert will be followed by a jam session at 9:00pm - all are welcome. If you are a musician, sign up for the jam session!

Schedule: 7pm Doors Open | 7:30 Concert | 9:00 PM Jam Session

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About the Artist

Sheherazaad is an American performer-composer, whose contemporary folk-pop synthesis joins the new wave of South Asian diasporic soundscapes.

Native to the San Francisco Bay Area and brought up second-generation in an immigrant household, Sheherazaad gleans from Western classical and South Asian sonic lineages. Her contemporary voicing, though inherently genre-defiant, may be described as alternative folk or experimental ballad. Sheherazaad’s original lyricism modernizes certain existing Hindi-Urdu poetic forms, channelling questions of displacement, mother tongue, imagined homelands, and beyond. Currently, she allows the experience of shifting between India and Brooklyn, NYC to shape her eccentric and hyphenated musical aesthetic.

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