FARED SHAFINURY: Fared Shafinury In The Moment

Award winning artist – Fared Shafinury – unearths and explores the world of classical Persian music. From a small sleepy beach town along the Gulf of Mexico, Shafinury’s musical sense crosses barriers with mutual cultural ease. His compositions thus move against the current, by retracing the arc from West to East. This is what makes the sound of Fared Shafinury and his Austin-based band, Tehranosaurus, stand out from his contemporaries.

Fared Shafinury: setar, vocals

Krikor Andonian on Electronics

Jason Ditzian on Clarinet,

Jason McKenzie on Tabla/Drumset

Roberto Paolo Riggio on Violin,

Michael Shiono on stand up Bass and

Kamran Thunder on Ney

“In his hands, the setar, an Eastern cousin of the guitar, and Fared’s virtuoso specialty, yearns not for a departure from Iranian form nor the emulation of Western genres, but arrival at the point where binaries and boundaries bleed and blend until they dissolve completely. ” -PBS Tehran Bureau

www.FaredShafinury.com

http://soundcloud.com/fared-shafinury/barafshan

http://soundcloud.com/fared-shafinury/skies-within-your-eyes

$12-$20 admission.  Doors at 7:30 pm.  Show at 8:00 pm.