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August 1, 2010: 1:30, 2:30 & 3:30 PM
Performances by Mike Block, Hadi Eldebek, Tarea Abboushi and Nick Chbat
American Museum of Natural History
New York, NY
This ensemble playing cello, oud, buzuq and percussion will present traditional music from Lebanon as well as new music influenced by Arabic and Western styles. This event is one in a series of performances brought together by the Silk Road Project, which take place within the "Traveling the Silk Road" exhibition at AMNH every Sunday afternoon through August 15, 2010.

AMNH performance series press release


August 8, 2010: 1:30, 2:30 & 3:30 PM
Performances by Ljova and the Kontraband
American Museum of Natural History
New York, NY
The New York City-based ensemble Ljova and the Kontraband plays a genre-defying blend of original chamber jam music inspired by gypsy melodies, jazz and Balkan rhythms. Composer and violinist Ljova's compositions echo his arrangements of music from Asia and Eastern Europe for the Silk Road Ensemble, as well as his own travels through the many diverse neighborhoods of his home city. This event is one in a series of performances brought together by the Silk Road Project, which take place within the "Traveling the Silk Road" exhibition at AMNH every Sunday afternoon through August 15, 2010.


August 15, 2010: 1:30, 2:30 & 3:30 PM
Performances by the Neel Murgai Ensemble
American Museum of Natural History
New York, NY
The Neel Murgai Ensemble performs a unique blend of Indian and Western traditions, dubbed raga chamber-jazz. Their music is rooted in the North Indian classical system but influenced by minimalism, jazz and free-improvisation. They offer this performance in celebration of the 63rd anniversary of Indian independence. This event is one in a series of performances brought together by the Silk Road Project, which take place within the "Traveling the Silk Road" exhibition at AMNH every Sunday afternoon through August 15, 2010.


August 8-22, 2010
Concert Tour of U.S. Music Festivals
The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma

This program from the critically acclaimed Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma will reflect the diversity of this exceptional group of musicians, ranging from China to India, from Persia to Europe to the Americas. Including arrangements of traditional music from several cultures, this concert will also feature works commissioned for the Ensemble’s distinctive assemblage of instruments from Silk Road lands, percussion and Western strings. Highlights include Argentinean composer Osvaldo Golijov’s "Air to Air," which he has described as “music borne of community,” and "The Taranta Project," a feverishly inventive work by Sicilian composer Giovanni Sollima.

August 8: Lenox, MA – Tanglewood Music Center, Koussevitzky Music Shed
August 9: New Bedford, MA – Zeiterion Theatre
August 11: Philadelphia, PA – Mann Center for the Performing Arts
August 12: Rochester, NY – CMAC Performing Arts Center
August 14: Cleveland, OH – Blossom Music Center
August 15: Detroit, MI – Orchestra Hall
August 17: Chapel Hill, NC – Memorial Auditorium, UNC Chapel Hill
August 19: Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater
August 20: Highland Park, IL – Ravinia Festival, Ravinia Pavilion
August 22: Madison, WI – Overture Center for the Arts

U.S. Concert Tour press release


March-April 2011
North American Concert Tour
The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma