[FA Worldmusic] FA-Worldmusic Digest, Vol 19, Issue 18

Sat Sep 22 17:29:20 ADT 2007

Can anybody find out exactly who is creating the problem for Khalifi?  The
e-mail says that the venue is causing the problem.   I would like to know
the facts so that I can look into this further as this is most disturbing.

While I can understand the heightened security in this post 9-11 world,
there is no excuse for not allowing a musician like Khalili from
performing.  The fact that he is banned in so many parts of the Arab World
should tell people in America that his message of freedom of expression
needs to be supported.

Glenn Tamir
www.tamirproductions.com

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> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:50:48 -0700
> From: "Dore Stein" <tangentsradio at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [FA Worldmusic] WOMEX Roommate
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> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:07:46 -0400
> From: "Dmitri Vietze" <music at rockpaperscissors.biz>
> Subject: [FA Worldmusic] political roadblock for Lebanese oud player
> To: <fa-worldmusic at folk.org>, <globe-l at nevada.edu>
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> Hi everyone,
>
> Lebanese oud master and composer Marcel Khalifi has a North American tour
> starting September 28... but we have a news update about a heated
> political
> controversy unfolding in San Diego, California where Khalifi is set to
> perform next month. The concert there is still happening, but the venue
> had
> to be changed due to a roadblock related to misperceptions and tensions
> that
> exist in today's political climate towards Arabs. Tour dates follow the
> news
> update below or read more here:
>
>
> www.rockpaperscissors.biz/index.cfm/fuseaction/current.alt_press_release/project_id/242/alt_release/265.cfm
>
> NEWS BULLETIN
>
> Banned and Denounced in the Middle East, Renowned Lebanese Musician Hits
> Unexpected Roadblock in U.S.A.:
> Discrimination in San Diego Will Not Stop Arab Oud Master & Composer's
> Extensive North American Fall Tour
>
> Just a few weeks ago, a venue in San Diego, CA denied on political grounds
> the use of their theater to renowned Lebanese musician Marcel Khalifi,
> after
> local concert organizers had already arranged the event with the Salvation
> Army, who operates the venue, The Joan B. Kroc Theatre at the Salvation
> Army
> Corps Community Center. The possibly discriminatory incident demonstrates
> the misperceptions and tensions that exist in today's political climate
> towards Arabs, even those who advocate for peace. Concert organizers-who
> had
> been in touch with the venue for several months and had followed their
> application process rigorously-were told that a concert by Khalifi-an
> UNESCO
> Artist for Peace- would be "divisive" and "unbalanced" because it does not
> present an Israeli artist alongside Khalifi.
>
> Khalifi has faced persecution in the Middle East, but never something this
> inflammatory in the U.S.A. Earlier this year, a performance of his was
> denounced in the Persian Gulf island nation Bahrain. Khalifi's music was
> also recently banned from radio, television, and on stage in Tunisia.
> Damned
> in parts of the Middle East for supporting freedom of expression, it is
> ironic that in the U.S.A. he would find similar efforts to quiet him. In
> spite of a small contingent in San Diego, Khalifihas twenty four concerts
> from September 28 to November 18, including every major city in the U.S.A.
> and Canada, many of them in major performing arts centers. The tour will
> include a concert in San Diego at another venue.
>
> Khalifi has often spoken out for peace and reconciliation, having risked
> his
> life performing in bombed-out concert halls during Lebanon's civil war.
> Last
> August, Khalifi wrote to fellow UNESCO Artists for Peace in response to
> Israel's bombing of Lebanon, "Nothing justifies our art other than to
> speak
> for those who cannot speak. This is the cause for which we dedicated our
> efforts, and the cause that endorsed our voices. We only wished to take it
> as far as we can, and vowed to release our work as songs of love for, and
> unity with, the victims of persecution everywhere."
>
> KHALIFI'S TOUR DATES
>
> 9/28/2007 Montreal, QC The Metropolis
> 9/30/2007 Toronto, ON Toronto Centre for the Arts
> 10/2/2007 Ottawa, ON Centrepoint Theatre
> 10/4/2007 Calgary, AB MacEwan Hall
> 10/5/2007 Edmonton, AB Citadel, MacLab Theater
> 10/6/2007 Vancouver, BC Centennial Theatre
> 10/7/2007 Seattle, WA Town Hall
> 10/10/2007 San Francisco, CA Herbst Theatre
> 10/13/2007 Los Angeles, CA Wilshire Ebell Theatre
> 10/14/2007 San Diego, CA Birch North Park Theater
> 10/18/2007 Denver, CO The Oriental Theater
> 10/19/2007 Minneapolis, MN The Cedar Cultural Center
> 10/20/2007 Austin, TX Hogg Memorial Auditorium - Univ. of Texas Austin
> 10/26/2007 Houston, TX Stafford Centre - Performing Arts Theatre
> 10/28/2007 Portland, OR Aladdin Theater
> 10/30/2007 Albuquerque, NM KiMo Theater
> 11/1/2007 Washington, DC John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
> 11/2/2007 Washington, DC John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
> 11/4/2007 Atlanta, GA Ferst Center for the Arts
> 11/9/2007 Ann Arbor, MI Michigan Theater
> 11/10/2007 Dearborn, MI Ford Community & Performing Arts Center
> 11/11/2007 Westlake, OH Westlake City Schools Performing Arts Center
> 11/16/2007 Boston, MA Berklee Performance Hall
> 11/18/2007 New York, NY NYU Skirball Center
>
> MORE LINKS
>
> full press release about the tour and Khalifi's new work and recording,
> Taqasim.
> www.rockpaperscissors.biz/go/khalife
>
> MP3 audio streams
>
> www.rockpaperscissors.biz/index.cfm/fuseaction/current.mp3Grouped/project_id/242.cfm
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> Much respect,
>
> Dmitri Vietze
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