DAM in Concert
**DJ K-Salaam on turntables!**

Saturday, October 18, 2008 9pm
Cedar Cultural Center
416 Cedar Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota
$25 general admission, $18 students

‘Da Arabian MC's’, Dam also means ‘blood’ in Arabic and
‘immortal’ in Hebrew. Heralded by France’s Le Monde as “The
spokesman of a new generation,” DAM is the first and leading Palestinian
hip hop group. It is composed of Tamer Nafar, 28, his younger brother
Suhell, 24, and Mahmoud Jreri, 25. All three members of the group were born
and grew up in the slums of Lyd, Israel, a mixed town of Palestinians and
Jews, 20 kilometers from Jerusalem. DAM's music is a unique fusion of East
and West, combining Arabic percussion rhythms, Middle Eastern melodies and
urban Hip Hop. The lyrics of DAM are influenced by the continuing Israeli -
Palestinian conflict as well as by the Palestinian struggle for freedom and
equality. DAM also address such controversial issues as terrorism, drugs
and women's rights.