Acknowledged as one of the Bushehr’s finest musicians and musical scholars, Saeid Shanbehzadeh is a master of the neyanban (double-reed bagpipe). Studying under the old masters of Bushehr, he began at age seven to learn the wedding music, love songs, and religious pieces common in the province. He first mastered percussion and singing, then the double flute, the neyanban and traditional dance. Swirling across the stage, falling into trance, and throwing the pipes on top of his head, Shanbehzadeh’s dynamic performances inexorably draw audiences into his musical world. Now living in France, he has become a voice of the Persian community there, speaking out against the current Iranian regime and drawing its ire for his refusal to keep silent.
Banning Eyre, host of National Public Radio’s “Afropop Worldwide” described a recent, rare U.S. performance by Ensemble Shanbehzadeh as “a mesmerizing set of what may be called the hidden Afro-Persian tradition…transfixing.” Saeid will be joined by his gifted teenaged son, Naghid, on the tombak (Persian goblet drum) and Habib Meftah Boushehri on various other percussion instruments.
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