Yemeni Music Concert in San Francisco

Ahamed Alrodini & Friends

Oud player, Singer, percussionist (dumbek and frame drum), Alrodini was born in Bakat Al Hoddeidah on the Red Sea coast of Yemen. Learning music informally from the time he was a small boy, Alrodini once made himself an oud from found objects including parts of a gas tank from an abandoned truck. He first came to the United States in 1988 on a tour with Fouad Al Kibsi and Haifa Omar, prominent Yemeni musicians. He started performing on Yemeni Radio & TV as a teenager in Sanaa. Alrodini is one of only a few Brooklyn, NY based artists who come from the South/Red Sea area and his expertise in that region's polyrhthmic percussion music is a rarity. He's also steeped in the many regional styles, including the more classical Sanaani poetry songs.

WHEN: Saturday June 28th
TIME: 7pm
COST: Tickets are $40

DETAILS:
Call (646) 594-6026
email: alrodini@gmail.com

Union Hall
240 Golden Gate Ave.
San Francisco 94102
415 885-0087

* see link to directions below

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