Sounds of Peace: Afghan Music in America

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Sounds of Peace: Afghan Music in America

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Salar Nader and Homayoun Sakhi performed traditional Afghan muisc at the 2016 Folklife Festival. Salar Nader is a virtuosic and internationally renowned tabla player and composer. Born in 1981 in Hamburg, Germany, he and his parents were forced to flee their home in Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan War. Homayoun Sakhi is admired as the outstanding Afghan rubâb player of his generation. Born in Kabul into one of Afghanistan’s leading musical families, he studied rubâb—a double-chambered lute and the national instrument of Afghanistan—with his father, Ghulam Sakhi Music: “Kataghani” by Homayoun Sakhi Interview: Atesh Sonneborn, Charlie Weber Camera: Charlie Weber Editing: Alexis Ligon, Michelle Mehrtens http://www.festival.si.edu/blog/2016/sounds-of-peace-afghan-music-in-america/ [Catalog No. CFV10807; Copyright 2016 Smithsonian Institution]

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2016-07-25T20:42:07.000Z

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