Venue: Sanders Theater, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge

Tickets & info: www.worldmusic.org
Telephone: 617-876-4275
Group discounts available
Seventeen musicians from Central Asia are going on tour in 11 North
American cities beginning October 12, 2007. The tour, "Spiritual
Sounds of Central Asia: Nomads, Mystics, and Troubadours," will
provide North American audiences with a rare opportunity to hear music
from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and
Qaraqalpakstan (an autonomous region in Uzbekistan). Artists includes
legendary Azerbaijani vocalist Alim Qasimov and his daughter Fargana;
Bardic Divas, four women from Kazakhstan and Qaraqalpakstan who
demonstrate the power and beauty of the female voice; and the
Badakhshan Ensemble, which performs trance-inducing mystical songs
from the majestic Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan and Afghanistan. Three
new CD-DVD releases produced in collaboration with the Smithsonian
Institution are also being released.
Sunday, October 14, 2007: BOSTON, MA
Sanders Theater, Harvard University 7:30PM
Monday, October 15, 2007: CAMBRIDGE, MA (NOT A CONCERT)
Lecture Demonstration at Harvard University 
Time TBD