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Dhafer Youssef Quartet at Healdsburg Jazz Festival at Jackson Theater
Courtesy of Gerry Sanders | Posted on April 30, 2019
Where
Jackson Theater
Healdsburg Jazz Festival
4440 Day School Place
Santa Rosa, CA
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When
Sun, June 9, 2019
7:00 pm
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Musicians
About
Dhafer Youssef, a charismatic and mesmerizing oud player and singer from Tunisia, headlines the Healdsburg Jazz Festival with a top New York jazz rhythm section – drummer Marcus Gilmore and bassist Matt Brewer – and brilliant Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan. His journey to this musical destination has been a fascinating one. Born in 1967, he was destined to become a muezzin – religious singers tasked with incanting the five-times-a-day call to prayers in the Muslim world. Dhafer proved to be restless, however, and craved musical experiences beyond the Islamic. He took up the oud – an ancient string instrument related to the mandolin and banjo – and started playing professionally....