Galeet Dardashti Sings Monajat (Fervent Prayer)
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco -- Kanbar Hall (3200 California St. San Francisco, CA 94118)
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The last date listed for Galeet Dardashti: Monajat (Fervent Prayer) was Saturday September 24, 2011 / 8:00pm.
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We really enjoyed the concert. Daleet and her band were great. The music was beautiful, spiritual and haunting. The projections of natural images and elaborate middle eastern patterns (essentially a very sophisticated live light show), complemented and added texture to the overall presentation. Her incorporation into her live performance of vintage recordings of her grandfather, a very famous Persian singer, was particularly effective.Written on Sep 26 2011
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http://www.jccsf.org/arts-ideas/performances/music/galeet-dardashti/
Quotes & Highlights
- "Hers is a voice that could easily raise the spirits of an audience." —The Huffington Post
- See the promo video on Vimeo.
Description
As the granddaughter of Yona Dardashti, the most renowned singer of Persian classical music in Iran in his day, and daughter of highly esteemed cantor Farid Dardashti, Middle Eastern vocalist and composer Galeet Dardashti is the first woman in her family to continue her family tradition of distinguished Persian and Jewish musicianship.
After performing in the U.S. and Canada with The Dardashti Family from her childhood into her teenage years, Dardashti began her own independent musical pursuits. She has performed as a soloist both throughout the U.S. and Israel, including significant cantorial work. As leader and vocalist of the edgy all-female Mizrahi band Divahn, Dardashti’s “sultry delivery spans international styles and clings to listeners long after the last round of applause” (Jerusalem Report).
Her new acoustic/electronic solo project, titled The Naming, supported by a Six Points Fellowship and a Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Fellowship, draws inspiration from the musical and cultural landscapes of the Middle East and some of the provocative yet unsung Biblical women who lived there. The Huffington Post calls the album "a heart-stopping effort." The Naming album launched in September 2010.
Galeet also pursues her passion for Jewish music and culture as an anthropologist. She recently completed her Ph.D. in anthropology on the performance of contemporary Mizrahi and Arab music in Israel. She offers residencies, lectures, and workshops on her artistic and academic work.
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