Performance: Ensemble Hayiran by Rumi Canada - February 13, 2020

Presented in collaboration with Rumi Canada, this performance was presented on February 13, 2020 to a sold out crowd! Showcasing reimagined Persian music from Hayiran Ensemble, the evening features quintet Shaho Andalibi, Amir Koushkani, and Farzad AttarJafari. Highly improvisational, this performance was inspired by the diversity of Iran’s regional music, the ensemble fuses traditional, folkloric, spiritual, and modern styles to create a transcendent new sound, united with Sufi whirling. The ensemble takes its name from a stage in the Sufi spiritual journey. Meaning bewilderment, hayiran comes with years of training and is a type of ecstasy that is not be talked about, only experienced. Hayiran Ensemble is comprised of Shaho Andalibi (ney/vocals), Amir Koushkani (tar/vocals), Naghmeh Farahmand (percussion), Nima Haghighi (cello), and Farzad AttarJafari (whirling dervish). This performance is sponsored by the Gulshan & Pyarali G. Nanji Family Foundation and presented i