Berkeley Arts Festival Calendar

05/11/2013

Patchwork Series: Octopretzel

Your Song My Song opens. $8.00 advance / $9.00 at door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org

11am, Freight and Salvage Coffee House, 2020 Addison

Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg

Rodin (2011): music by Ravel, Saint-Saens and Massenet; choreography by Boris Eifman (West Coast premiere). $30.00-$92.00. Sightlines, 7:00-7:30 pm: Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg pre-performance talk with the artists free to event ticketholders. 642-9988. www.calperformances.org

8pm to 10pm, Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus

Georges Lammam & Ensemble with Riffat Sultana

Georges Lammam, of Palestinian descent, born in Beirut, Lebanon is well-known in the Middle East and the United States as a solo violinist exemplifying the Arab style of instrumental improvisation and lyricism.

Joining Georges Lammam & Ensemble is Riffat Sultana-who channels the musical wisdom of 500 years and eleven generations of master vocalists from India and Pakistan. Daughter of legendary classical singer, the late Maestro Ustad Salamat Ali Khan, Riffat is the first woman from her family’s musical lineage to publicly perform in the west. Riffat performs a wide variety of traditional and modern material from the Indian sub-continent, including Sufi, Geet, Ghazal, Filmi, Qawwali, and Light Classical. In this performance her ensemble will include Arabic violin, 12 string guitar, and multi percussion, and she will be singing her original songs featured on Georges Lammam’s albums. Highlights will be devotional, and ecstatic Sufi songs to great saints like Shahabaz Qalander and Baba Bule Shah. Sure to move your heart, soul, and feet!

$20 adv. $25 dr.

849-2568
www.lapena.org

8pm to 10pm, 3105 Shattuck Avenue

Shahrzad Sepanlou and Fared Shafinury

Presented by the Baran Cultural Group. $30.50 advance / $32.50 at door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org

8pm, Freight and Salvage Coffee House, 2020 Addison