Ashkenaz

SAT JUN 20 🎵 🎵 🎵
Zaghareet: Wedding Songs of the Arab Word
ft. Aswat Women's Ensemble, Salma El Assal, Nicole Maria & More!

Doors 7:30pm / Show 8pm

Founded in 2012 by Nabila Mango, Aswat Women’s Ensemble (AWE) is the only all-female Arab music group in the United States. Based in the Bay Area, the ensemble is dedicated to the preservation and celebration of Arabic musical traditions, ranging from classical and folkloric to contemporary styles.

Beyond its diverse repertoire, AWE serves as a vital space for female agency, empowering its members to lead artistic and programming decisions through performance and collaboration. By centering women’s voices, the AWE nurtures a unique environment where cultural heritage and community empowerment intersect through the universal language of music.

For this special concert at Ashkenaz, they will be performing lively wedding songs from the Arab world directed by violinist Briana Di Mara, and will be joined by special guests Salma El Assal and Nicole Maria. Don’t miss this extraordinary night of music and dance!

Tickets:
Advance: $25
Day of Show: $30
Student discount price: $15 (Only at door—have your student ID ready)

Ashkenaz is all ages, all the time. Kids and minors are always welcome. Those 12 or under are admitted FREE (unless otherwise noted).

FRI JUN 12 😎 😎 😎
Eric Thompson's Dead Roots Revivial

Doors 7:30pm / Show 8pm

Legendary flatpicker Eric Thompson (Black Mountain Boys, David Nelson, David Grisman) has assembled a dream team for a fresh approach to the music of his teenage years, when he was a spitting distance witness to the birth of the Warlocks, soon to become the Grateful Dead. Thompson (at age 17) had been playing in several bluegrass bands with Jerry Garcia (Black Mountain Boys, Asphalt Jungle Mountain Boys, etc) as well as in Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, which also included his buddy Pigpen. He was living across the hall from Phil Lesh when the Warlocks began, but he himself had no interest in “going electric” and continued to play acoustic guitar, releasing a landmark bluegrass guitar album on Kicking Mule and, later, award-winning Cajun albums with the California Cajun Orchestra.

Dead Roots Revival includes:
Keyboardist and composer extraordinaire Sam Reider (Jon Batiste, Sierra Hull, Laurie Lewis, Paquito d’Rivera)
Lifetime bluegrass insider Corbin Pagter (Crooked Jades, Country Ham, Mt. Diablo String Band)
Percussionist and rhythm dancer Keith Terry (Crosspulse, Pickle Family Circus, Bobby McFerrin)
Multi-instrumentalist Paul Kotapish (Wake the Dead, New Vintage Revelers)
Bassist Mark Schatz (Tony Rice, Bela Fleck, John Hartford, Nickel Creek, Sarah Jarosz.)
Special guest fiddler and vocalist Suzy Thompson (Maria Muldaur, Jim Kweskin, Meredith Axelrod & Craig Ventresco)

Tickets:
Advance: $20
Day of Show: $25
Student discount price: $15

Ashkenaz is all ages, all the time. Kids and minors are always welcome. Those 12 or under are admitted FREE (unless otherwise noted).

Tom Rigney & Flambeau • Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center • VenuePilot Tom Rigney is one of the premier American Roots Music fiddle players on the planet. His band, Tom Rigney & Flambeau, specializes in blazing Cajun and Zydeco two-steps, low-down Blues, funky New Orleans grooves, Boogie Woogie piano, and heartbreakingly beautiful ballads and waltzes. Much of the reper...