Simon Shaheen - Benefit Concert

Date: October 15, 2016 (Saturday)
Time: 8:00–11:00 P.M.
Place: Weston Arlington Gateway, , 801 N Glebe RD, Arlington VA 22203
Tickets: $40.00 online

Simon Shaheen, master musician and teacher, will perform a concert benefiting for End the Israeli Occupation.  He is at once a reservoir of Arabic music legacy and adventurer into new frontiers of music – honored in 1994 with an NEA National Heritage Award.  If you haven't heard him, come see; if you have heard him, you know what's waiting...!

Sephardic Liturgy and Selihot with oud and kanoun

Date: October 9, 2016 (Sunday)
Time: 6:30–9:30 P.M.
Place: Magen David Congregation
Tickets: $18 at door

Rabbi Haim Ovadia and the Magen David Congregation offer a concert that includes full musical ensemble: Qanoun, Oud, Darbooka, Violin plus leading cantors.

The concert forms part of Sephardic Hazzanut and Liturgy, three days before Kippur.