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We hope you'll join us for our special holiday event on December 11th. We have local artists performing to make it a memorable night for everyone.
Narges Jajarmi was born in 2002 and currently resides in Bay area. She has been instructed by teachers such as Kaveh Elhamian, Amir Sarraf and Behnam Abolghasem from the age of 5. She continued to professionally play the piano at the Tehran Conservatory of Music for Girls, and took up flute as a second instrument for two years. During the past year, she self-taught the accordion which has giving her a chance to perform on streets of Tehran along other musicians or in solo. She shares these experiences on Instagram and likes to show how melodies impacts bystanders on streets of Tehran. She recently was featured on “Khaleh Sooskeh” play Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam’s free adaptation of a section of the popular Iranian play written and directed by the famous Iranian playwright and stage director, Bijan Mofid. She continues to get instructions from her master musicians in Iran.
22-year-old Isik Berfin a student and musician in San Francisco has been in a musical family who’s passed down their tradition of playing the saz and singing since she was 6, not knowing notes Berfin learned to play the saz, flute, and daf on her own as the years passed. Singing in the World Music Festival at age 10, Berfin has been a part of the KQED, ACTA, KAWL and more. Sharing the stage with ethnically diverse musicians Berfin fell in love with the daf whom she was later on taught by Pajman Hadadi and Shahab Paranj. Working with Ozden Oztoprak (her mother) and Aynur Dogan her voice was now settled in the ethnic throat of the Kurdish Zazaki rituals. Although there is only a small minority in the Bay Area Berfin reaches her voice out to her surroundings with instagram From Zaza ethnic minority group from turkey which is a group that has been historically persecuted and very seldom talked about. Her distinct epertoire passes down from generations from behind closed doors, and arriving to California she’s been able to freely sing, to put it in her own words “ coming to the U.S., I understood that I have to keep this alive; I have to tell people who I am so that it won't die."
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