Friday, October 19 – Marcel Khalife. Cedar Cultural Center. 416 Cedar Ave S, Minneapolis. 8 pm.
$50 reserved premium seating. $30 general admission.

To buy tickets, go here: http://www.thecedar.org/tix.html



Lebanon 's composer/musician Marcel Khalifé is a master and innovator of the oud and a pioneer of contemporary Arab song. Renowned throughout the Middle East for over three decades, he has sustained a following akin to pop artists. In 2005, he was named UNESCO Artist for Peace. Performing on oud and vocals, he will be accompanied by the Al Mayadine Ensemble in a program featuring works from his new recording Taqasim, as well as selections from his older repertoire.

In his association with great contemporary Arab poets, particularly Palestinian poet par excellence, Mahmoud Darwish, he seeks to renew the character of the Arabic song, to break its stereotypes, and to advance the culture of the society that surrounds it. On his journey, Marcel Khalifé invents and creates original music, a novel world of sounds, freed of all established rules. This language elevates him to the level of an ambassador of his own culture and to the vanguard of Near Eastern music innovators. Co-presented with the Cedar Cultural Center.