Music and the Dream of Reconciliation in Afghanistan

St Ethelburgas presents

 

Music and the Dream of Reconciliation in Afghanistan

 

Saturday April 23^rd at 7.30 pm (doors open 7.00 pm)

St. Ethelburgas, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2 4AG

 

Part 1. Return of the Nightingales (2011 video, 30 mins), shot at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, a unique co-educational vocational music school in Kabul founded in 2010.

 

Part 2. A concert of traditional Afghan music by:

Veronica Doubleday (voice and daireh frame drum)

John Baily (dutar and rubab, Afghan lutes)

Sulaiman Haqpana (tabla drum pair)

 

 

Please go to www.stethelburgas.org/events/performance for further details.