Palestine Rocks - a benefit party...

This was a party to raise money to send someone to Palestine to do some human rights work... we raised over two thousand dollars!!! Great party, too... reggae band Man in the Street played as did singer Leslie Addis, and I provided a late night set of dubstep and middle eastern jams...

persian panthers' norouz celebration

i played a norouz celebration (new years) for an iranian student group. it featured traditional music during dinner and modern iranian pop and dance music for a two hour dance party afterwards.

the big hits? ironically syrian pop tune by omar souleyman and justin timberlake's "sexyback"... but mostly i played iranian pop. in fact, if i went too long without playing something persian i heard about it quick from the crowd...

awesome night. excellent food, circle dancing, clapping and a big tip! a lot of the students had older and younger relatives, so it was a beautiful time of mutli-generational dancing.

global beats - middle eastern night!

my first night for carla of global beats... great times!

my (mostly accurate) setlist is here.

more photos here.