Habibi Festival Live at Joes Pub Day 1 [Quartertones]
In this Quartertones event in collaboration with Habibi Festival held at Joe's Pub, we talked to AJOYO musician Yacine Boulares, Habibi Fest co-director Meera Dugal, clarinet player Kinan Azmeh, Joe's Pub director Alex Knowlton.
About Quartertones
Quartertones is a music show. It is an opportunity to listen to music, across genres, from musicians of and from the Arab world. This series is similar to NPR’s All Songs Considered that is focused on the Arab world. afikra will be inviting musicians of all genres, as well as music historians, to help better understand the music that they perform or study. In this series, the guests will be invited to talk about their work and play their music, whether live or recorded, in three segments. The series will host current musicians who play contemporary and modern, including alternative scene or hip-hop, electronic, classical music, among other genres. The musicians will also be from different geographies.
