SOLD OUT: The Boîte Spring Festival: Diverse Sounds of Iran at La Mama Musica
Mon, 05 Sept
|La Mama Theatre - Courthouse Theatre
Livestream tickets still available. Iranian culture is well-known for its richness, multi-dimensionality, and influence. Melbourne’s Iranian community boasts musicians representing classical, traditional and contemporary aspects of Iranian musical culture. Can these diverse angles meet?
Time & Location
05 Sept 2022, 7:30 pm
La Mama Theatre - Courthouse Theatre, 349 Drummond St, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia
About the Event
Bringing together personal perspectives of these influences through music, poetry and improvisation, this performance shares a perspective on finding new connections through the joy of shared creativity informed by tradition and experimentation.
Mastaneh Nazarian Four Gestures Iranian born guitarist, Mastanah Nazarian migrated to America in 1985 where she learnt the guitar and began exploring music simultaneously whilst learning to live in a new cultural landscape and learning to speak a new language. For Mastaneh, Iranian musical traditions and ways of experiencing them is part of how she sees the world. Her musical compositions, although Western in temperament and in tuning, relate to how she sees the world through pictures and stories. This performance shares various sung perspectives on love and war through her experiences; four simple gestures in time.
Misagh Zamani and Band Misagh Zamani was born in a musical family in Iran, and began performing with his father’s band at the age of 4.…