St John's Episcopal: Ayman Fanous Solo

Date: May 22, 2015 (Friday)
Time: 7:00 P.M.
Place: St. John's Episcopal Church, 5649 Mount Gilead RD, Centreville VA 20120 (directions)
Tickets: Free and open to public

Washington's own Ayman Fanous returns to the stage with a solo performance on Spanish guitar and Mediterranean bouzouki.

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Sponsors: St. John's Episcopal Church

St. Joseph's: Ayman Fanous and Susan Alcorn

Date: January 30, 2015 (Friday)
Time: 07:30 P.M.
Place: St. John's Episcopal Church, 5649 Mount Gilead Road, Centreville, VA 20120 (directions)
Tickets: free to the public
Come see and hear this first-ever duet of Ayman Fanous and Susan Alcorn with improvised music for guitar, bouzouki, prepared guitar, and pedal steel guitar.
Ayman Fanous synthesizes classical and flamenco guitar techniques with contemporary improvisation: Derek Bailey meets Paco de Lucia, plus ancestral Egyptian bouzouki.
Susan Alcorn is a Baltimore-based composer-musician and innovator of pedal steel guitar with combinations of country-western, free jazz, avant-garde classical, Indian ragas, indigenous, and other world music.
Further details appear on Facebook.

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Susan Alcorn
Ayman Fanous

Sponsors: St. John's Episcopal Church

Ayman Fanous welcomes Tatsuya Nakatani

Date: September 18, 2013 (Wednesday)
Time: 7:30 P.M.
Place: St John's Episcopal Church, 5667 Mt Gilead RD, Centreville VA 20120 (directions)
Tickets: $10 suggested at the door

Ayman Fanous welcomes Tatsuya Nakatani, one of the most unique and arresting percussionists in improvised music, for an evening of mprovised duets for guitar, prepared guitar, bouzouki, and percussion.

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Sponsors: St John's Episcopal Church

Ayman Fanous and Ned Rothenberg

Date: May 11, 2012 (Friday)
Time: 7:30 P.M.
Place: St. Mary's Episcopal Church - Foggy Bottom
Tickets: $$15 general admission
Ayman Fanous hosts Ned Rothenberg in duets and solos with Rothenberg on saxophone, clarinet, and shakuhachi and Fanous on guitar and bouzouki.

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Ned Rothenberg - Shakuhachi Solo Ayman Fanous - Bouzouki Solo
Sponsors: Elysium Musicworks