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20070317 Rumi's 800th Birthday - Shahram Mazhari's Naghmeh Ensemble, Carrboro, NC : In honor of the poet Rumi's 800th birthday, the Rifa'i Marufi Sufi order, locally based in North Carolina, hosted an evening of music and dance at the Carrboro Century Center in North Carolina that I was pleased to attend. The Nagmeh Ensemble, directed by my friend Shahram Mazhari (on vocals and instruments like the daf frame drum) and accompanied by Mohammad Nahavandi on santur and a third musician whose name I don't remember, provided the traditional Persian music. I also have included a number of short video clips here. You can also see one of the performance and one of the zikr reflection after the performance on the YouTube video sharing site. In addition, I have a few digital audio files (.wav format) that I can email to anybody who is interested. You can see a story about the Ensemble in the March 2, 2007 issue of Rock Hill, SC's The Herald and visit the site of the local annual Rumi Festival, as well as pictures that I took at the 2003 and 2004 Festivals. All images here copyright ©2007 by Dilip Barman of Vibrant Memories Photography. All rights reserved. Permission is granted for noncommercial usage, including downloading and printing.

20070317 Rumi's 800th Birthday - Shahram Mazhari's Naghmeh Ensemble, Carrboro, NC

In honor of the poet Rumi's 800th birthday, the Rifa'i Marufi Sufi order, locally based in North Carolina, hosted an evening of music and dance at the Carrboro Century Center in North Carolina that I was pleased to attend. The Nagmeh Ensemble, directed by my friend Shahram Mazhari (on vocals and instruments like the daf frame drum) and ac ...

Updated: Mar 18, 2007 2:08am PST

2004 Rumi Festival, Durham-Chapel Hill, NC : 7th Annual Rumi Festival, www.rumifest.com "Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi, one of the most read and well known Persian poets and thinkers ... was born in Balkh (then Persia and now part of Afghanistan), on September 30, 1207. ... Rumi threw his prior theological knowledge into the fire, and plunged into the mystic knowledge of Love, Unity, and Humanity. His great book of mystical poetry the Mathnavi or Mesnavi, is considered the 'Persian Qur'an' in Iran. This year, the festival has a special emphasis, 'The Art of Rumi'." Links of interest: http://dilipb.smugmug.com/gallery/238688 (my pictures from 2003), and many sites about Rumi's poetry such as http://www.rumi.net/ (using translations by Shahram Siva, whose stunning readings were my first exposure at the Sufi Festival in 1999 or 2000) and http://www.khamush.com. The Rifa'i Marufi Order, which hosts this event here in the Triangle, has a "cybersufis" site, including pictures from the annual festivals at http://www.cybersufis.org/photos .

2004 Rumi Festival, Durham-Chapel Hill, NC

7th Annual Rumi Festival, www.rumifest.com "Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi, one of the most read and well known Persian poets and thinkers ... was born in Balkh (then Persia and now part of Afghanistan), on September 30, 1207. ... Rumi threw his prior theological knowledge into the fire, and plunged into the mystic knowledge of Love, Unity, ...

Updated: Oct 03, 2004 12:49am PST

2003 Rumi Festival, Chapel Hill, NC :

2003 Rumi Festival, Chapel Hill, NC

Updated: Oct 02, 2004 9:09am PST

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