2004 Sufi Conference May 13 - 16, 2004
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Uniting Inner and Outer | ||
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Evening Concert | ||
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The Evening Concert
The conference will include an evening concert on Saturday, May 15th from 7:30pm - 9:30pm with musicians Yusuf Mahmoud, Asif Mahmoud, and Ashraf Sharif.
About the Musicians:
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Ustad Asif Mahmoud was born in Kabul in 1946. He comes from a long line of musicians originally from Kasur the shrine of Bulleh Shah, the Punjab who moved to Kabul in the 19th century with other North Indian court musicians. They settled in the Kucha-ye Kharabat where they maintained their traditions, not least of devotion to the Chesti order of Sufism, which is always a prominent role to music in its ceremonies. Asif learned tabla from his famous older brother Ustad Hashem, and later studied further with Allah Rakhah Kahn in the Punjab Gharana. |
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Yusuf Mahmoud was born in Kabul in 1974, studying tabla with his uncle Ustad Hashem and singing with another uncle Wahid Khan. He often took part in musician Sessions at the Chesti khanegah of Haji Qadir in Kabul. Later, a scholarship allowed him to study the tabla in India with Bandu Khan, of the Ajrara gharana and more recently in Bombay with Allah Rakhah. An Interview from BBC Radio |
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Ashraf Sharif Khan
is the third son of the Asian sitar master Ustad
Muhammad Sharif Khan Poonchwala. An acknowledged prodigy
since the age of eleven, he inherits a musical tradition handed
down from father to son, from ustad to talib, over hundreds of
years since the founding of the "saini gharana"
school in the time of the Moghul Emperors of South Asia. Extended Biography |