Persian Folk Music Concert

Sima Bina and Dastan Ensemble

Date & Time : Sunday November 14th,7:30 p.m (Doors open at 7:00 p.m)
Location : Michigan Union Ballroom, 530 S State St ., Ann Arbor
Tickets :

        General Audience $27 in advance - $35 At the door

        Students             $20 in advance - $25 At the door

            (plus $2-3 for ticketmaster service charge) Reserved seats are not available

To buy tickets in advance call Michigan Union Ticket Office at : (734)763 8587

or buy  tickets on line at ticketmaster. 

Directions & Parking map

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E-mail your questions to : persians.board@umich.edu or call at (734) 604 9426

About Sima Bina :
Sima Bina was born at the heartland of her art, Birjand, in 1944. She grew up
under the close supervision of her father, Ahmad Bina, a master of classical
Iranian music, a poet and songwriter who wrote many of her early songs. She
began her official collaboration with radio Iran at the age of nine in
Children's program. Soon she was accepted to be trained by two of the most
prominent personalities of Persian music, master Ma'aroufi and master
Zarinpanjeh. She acquired her own solo program on Radio Iran, a rare
achievement at that time, called Golhayeh Sahraie (Wild Flowers). This popular
program, which was a collection of folk songs and musicals, carried her voice
throughout Iran and the neighboring countries until 1979, making her a part of
the memory of at least two generations of Iranians. Her performances and
special concerts in different countries further made her a renown artist
worldwide.

After graduating from Tehran University in 1969, majoring in Arts, Sima Bina
continued and completed her studies with master Davami, one of the most learned
authorities on Persian music. Since 1979, along with teaching Persian classical
music and vocals to selected students, she has focused on doing further
research on Persian folk songs. By traveling to most remote places all over
Khorasan, Bina has been able to gather and revive a collection of almost
forgotten folk songs and melodies, many of which she has re-composed and
presented in her recent performances.
To read more about Sima Bina visit  
http://www.sima-bina.com
   
 

About Dastan Ensemble :
Dastan Ensemble has established itself as one of Iran's most distinguished
Persian musical groups.Founded by tar and setar player Hamid Motebassem in
1991,Dastan is perhaps the most forward-thinking group of its kind,
re-establishing a repertoire of Persian classical music while using its
fundamentals of melodic, rhythmic and dynamic variation to develop new forms
and combined sonorities. The ensemble's structured improvisations are performed
by several of the very best of the contemporary Persian musicians including
Hossein Behroozi-Nia on barbat,Pejman Hadadi and Behnam Samani on daf&tombak
and Saeed Farajpouri on Kamancheh.

To read more about Dastan Ensemble visit  
http://www.dastanensemble.com