Timeless Iranian Melodies Rooftop Concert at The Museum of Boulder

2205 Broadway,Boulder CO 80302

16 July, 2021

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Live concert on the Rooftop featuring: Sirvan Manhoobi - Shoorangiz, and Oud.Farzin Dehghan - Kamāncheh, and Vocal Kaivon Tolooee - Daf. Join us at the Museum of Boulder partnering with The Persian Cultural Circle for a live concert on the rooftop featuring Iranian and Central Asian (Turkish, Arabic, and Kurdish) melodies. Learn to sing a Persian song with us before you lean back and enjoy the concert under the stars. This musical presentation is brought to you by the Persian Cultural Circle in honor of TIRGAN, the Iranian summer Festival. It honors the rain deity along with water, our most precious shared resource which nourishes the crops and us! It was customary for friends to weave bracelets out of rainbow-colored threads and give them to one another as a sign of friendship, well wishes, and intentions for happiness. Wearing the colorful bracelets, all would go outside, share sweets and wine, dance, sing, play music, and engage in water splashing games while enjoying being in the community with others. https://www.persianculturalcircle.org/ Sirvan Manhoobi - Oud player and composer Sirvan, holding awards for best soloist from various music festivals, started his musical journey at thirteen. He has played and performed with many amazing musicians, and maestros of Iranian music. Since moving to the United States in 2015, he has been teaching and performing Iranian, and Kurdish classical music. He has cooperated and performed with various bands, such as Masala Festival, at the University of Oklahoma, Stanford Middle Eastern Ensemble, Peace Bridge, Let Her Sing, a celebration of female voices, and many more. Farzin Dehghan - Kamāncheh Player and Vocalist Farzin Dehghan is an emerging kamancheh artist, composer, and educator. He has performed in numerous concerts with prolific musicians from around the world. Farzin holds degrees in contemporary improvisation and string performance from New England Conservatory (MM) and Berkeley College of Music (BM). His music is inspired by a wide range of musical traditions from various types of folk music of Iran, Western Asia to free improvisational traditions of the Americas and Europe to conceptual, minimal, and microtonal composition practices. Kaivon Tolooee - Percussionist From a young age music has always been a part of Kaivon. Born and raised in the United States. His grandmother gave him his first Daf after he first heard classical Persian music and the sound of Daf and Setar struck a musical fire deep inside of him. This fire still burns and continues to feed Kaivon’s soul. Throughout his life, music has always been an outlet for him to connect with himself as well as share with others in joy. Kaivon plays percussion which includes Daf, Congas, Cajon, Bongos, Drumset and many other hand drums and percussion instruments. His inspiration has always come from an innate passion with a strong necessity to create and connect while exploring and understanding new ways of thought and expression. To connect and cross borders when language falls short.