Guided Search: History and Preservation, Middle East, Children

Join fellow travelers for a sociable exchange of world travels, with delicious hors d’oeuvres and a glass of wine included.

SUKHISHILI has performed for fifty million people in eighty-eight countries on five continents. It was a headline attraction with New York City Ballet for the George Balanchine Centennial. It has previously performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Avery Fisher Hall, Madison Square Garden Albert Hall, the Rome Coliseum and La Scala where it was enthusiastically welcomed with rousing ovation and a record-setting number of curtain calls.

THE SECRET TRIO is a mesmerizing new band with established musicians that play authentically Turkish and Mediterranean music. It features kanun virtuoso TAMER PINARBASI, world-renowned composer/oud master ARA DINKJIAN, and clarinet prodigy ISMAIL LUMANOVSKI.

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture and the Concert Artist Series of Haverford College present legendary Lebanese singer/oud master and UNESCO Artist for Peace Marcel Khalife.

Crossroads welcomes back three musical groups to explore the connections between musics of Eastern Europe from the Baltic to the Bosphorus and beyond. Turkish singer and oud player İsmail Hakkı Fencioğlu and innovative klezmer band Shtreiml will perform a mostly Turkish set, highlighting some of the musical and historical relationships between Turkish and Eastern European music, while the West Philadelphia Orchestra, their neighborhood’s own village band, will contribute brass band music from the Balkans.