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Rajaf Center
(Rauf Ansari Jaleel Fatima Center, New York)
in collaboratin with

and
Rauf Ansari Foundation,

Present

Ustad Shahid Parvez

New York, Sunday May 7 8PM

&
Karachi, Pakistan, August 19

New York Concert:

Date: Sunday May 7, 8-10PM

Venue: Soundview Broadcasting Studios
36-01 37th Ave, 2nd Floor, Long Island City, NY 11101
By Car: From Manhattan, 5 minutes from 59th St Bridge
Subway: 36th Street stop on G, R & V lines
To Buy Tickets Online,
Click here

Tickets are also available at the door on the day of the concert

For more info call 212-477-5329 or email [email protected]

About Ustad Shahid Parvez:

�The Indian sitarist, Ustad Shahid Parvez, was in Karachi recently for two concerts. One concert took place
at the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs auditorium in Karachi last Wednesday, organized
by the Rauf Ansari Foundation (Mr Rauf Ansari was one of the pioneers of the All Pakistan Music Conference in Lahore, way back in 1959).

The Ustad's performance of Rageshri, Des and Bhairveen was out of this world. The sitarist lives in Pune, India.
He was born in Bombay in 1958. Coming from the illustrious family of Ustad Inayat Khan and his brother, Ustad Wahid Khan, S
hahid Parvez's mastery over the sitar - rightly called the "Queen of Instruments" - is quite natural for it runs in the family.

His superb command over sur and taal, the intricate use of meendh and kampat, the technically perfect barath of the raag, endless variations in taan and the delicate execution of zamzama, as well as mastery over laye, speak volumes for his hard work and riaz.
- S.M. Shahid, music critic, The Daily Dawn, Karachi

�Ustad Shahid Parvez is the best Sitar player in the world today.� (The two greats of Sitar, Pundit Ravi Shankar is aged over eighty and Ustad Villayat Khan Sahib, who passed away recently, both have spoken very highly of Shahid Parvez)
�Ashok Chakravati, Leading music critic based in Calcutta.

�Vilayat Khan's principle disciples include his brother Imrat Khan and son Shujaat Khan, Kashinath Mukherjee (he is the late film-maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee's brother), Kalyani Roy from Kolkata, and Arvind Parekh from Mumbai. But the liquid grace and beauty of his style is best represented today by Shahid Parvez,
not a direct disciple but from the same lineage of musicians.
- Partho Datta is a musicologist and a Reader in History, Delhi University.

Attention US fans of Ustad Shahid Parvez:

As in the past, for those wishing to combine their sight seeing trip to Pakistan with a ticket to this legendary artist's concert in Karachi, Pakistan,

we are offering a 1 week package tour of Pakistan that includes airfare, trip to the real Shangri-La, the picturesque Hunza Valley
and the ruins of the ancients Indus Valley Civilization at Mohenjo-Daro. For details write to:
[email protected]

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The Colors of Ecstasy: RUNG
Qawwali Music Of Pakistan
FARID AYAZ QAWWAL ENSEMBLE
Farid Ayaz and Abu Mohammad
VOL 3

Virsa Records

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Sample New CD
Click anywhere to listen
Farid Ayaz Qawwal - New CD release date: March 18
The much anticipated CD release of Farid Ayaz Qawwal Ensemble Vol 3 on Virsa Records is finally here.

The new Vol.3 will be available from 7PM on March 18 in the lobby of Tribeca Performing Arts Center. You can buy a copy before you go
in to the hall to listen to the Qawwali performance, or during the break or after the performance.
Also available the re-released best selling vol1 &11.

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A Rare Video
Here's a video clip featuring Farid Ayaz Qawwal, with his father,
the late Munshi Raziuddin - A Legendary Grand Master.

This is the only video of a live performance featuring Munshi Raziuddin.

It was shot in New York, 2000.
Sample Videos

Producer Ishrat Ansari for Virsa Pakistan

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What Is Qawwali Music?

Listen to WNYC Radio - "New Sounds" Special Program
Featuring Farid Ayaz Qawwal on Saturday March 11, 2006.

John Schaefer- Host

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Qawwali - It's a bridge between the human and the divine.
Ishrat Ansari, owner of Caffe Vivaldi and head of the New York based Pakistani cultural foundation Virsa,
and Robert Browning of the World Music Institute talk about
the transporting sound of the devotional folk music of the Sufi Muslims.
Produced by Jocelyn Gonzales.

WNYC RADIO STUDIO 360
Click here to listen
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"Sufi Passion That Rises to Ecstasy"

Jon Pareles, Chief Music Critic, The New York Times
( Writing in the Times about a Farid Ayaz performance)