KAYHAN KALHOR
A VIRTUOSO of the Persian-spiked fiddle called the kamancheh, Kayhan Kalhor is a three-time Grammy nominee widely considered to be the greatest living ambassador of Iranian music. Born into an Iranian Kurdish family, he’s performed internationally as a founding member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and given solo recitals at Carnegie Hall.
Kalhor returns from Tehran with the shah kaman, a new, custom-built kamancheh with sympathetic strings, joining forces with Ali Bahrami Fard, a master of the bass santour (a hammered dulcimer with 96 strings).
They perform music from 2012’s World Village release I Will Not Stand Alone, a haunting meditation.
- This concert is at Turner Sims tonight.
FROM THE BACK OF BEYOND
BROADWAY, Bollywood, Disney and classic opera – the Ringwood Musical and Dramatic Society choir concert From the Back of Beyond has it all.
Featuring an eclectic range of music from classical and opera to contemporary – everything from Verdi’s Aida and Mozart’s Magic Flute to Bollywood favourite Jai Ho (Slumdog Millionaire), New York New York (the Sinatra classic), What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong) and Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah (Shrek) – there’s something for everyone.
- The final concert of a series takes place at Ringwood Parish Church tomorrow at 7.30pm.
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