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Event Info Name: Zarbang - New York - May 17
Host: Zarbang
Type: Music/Arts - Concert
Time and Place Date: Saturday, May 17, 2008
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Skirball Performing Arts Center, NYU
Street: 566 La Guardia Pl at Washington Sq South
City/Town: New York, NY
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Contact Info Phone: 2125457536
Email: www.worldmusicinstitute.org

Description
Zarbang will perform the Skirball Performing Arts Center at New York University at 8 pm.

Ticket holders will be able to attend a free demonstration lecture on the music of the evening's performance at 7pm.

http://www.zarbang.com
Band Interests: Zarbang will tour North America May - June 1, 2008.

Hakim Ludin will not be part of this tour.

Zarbang will perform in Europe with Alizadeh in November.

The new album, Bang-e Mehr (Call to Love), is in the final mastering stages and will be distributed by Hermes. Hopefully in time for the Spring tour.

The long awaited DVD is under production and will be available during the Spring tour. It will contain the full versions of all the songs excerpted in the promo DVD, and more.

A second DVD containing footage of Zarbang and Banahsheh Sayyad's Namah Dance Company is also under production and will be released in the fall.

Audio samples, and more videos can be found at:
www.MySpace.com/Zarbang
Biography: ZARBANG is a world percussion ensemble comprised of some of the finest percussionists of Iran and Afghanistan.

Javid Afsari Rad - santur, naghaareh

Pejman Hadadi - tombak, daf, tunable frame drums

Morshed Mehregan - zarb-e zoorkhaneh, vocals

Behnam Samani - tombak, udu, daf, dammam, dayereh

Reza Samani - tombak, daf, sorna, ney-anaban, ney

Mehrdad Arabi Fard - tombak, daf

Hakim Ludin - cajon, congas, kanjira, pendarik, water drums, and many other things