More on Carpet Concert in Los Angeles

In my previous post I wrote about the Carpet Concert which was held here in Los Angeles by Rowan Storm and her friends.
With more than 25 years of experience with cultures and drumming of the Middle East and Mediterranean, Rowan Storm is recognized internationally as a performer and educator. Rowan brings freshness to tradition with her teaching method and frame drum designs, including the Thinline Frame Drums by Remo and her signature Rowan Storm Dayereh by Cooperman, now also produced by Remo.

With a parallel study of brain function and wellness, Rowan is pioneering the symmetrical frame drum position. The shallow depth of Rowan's Frame Drum designs enables both hands to play all the strokes, while holding the drum equally with both hands. As the non-dominant hand is called into action, the rational is harmonized with the intuitive, and startling new sources of creativity are unleashed.

Throughout the US, Europe and the Middle East, Rowan has studied and performed with some of the greatest masters of Middle Eastern music. Maintaining a full international concert and workshop schedule, Rowan plays and teaches a wide vocabulary of drumming styles, and sings in several languages. Based on walking, Rowan's teaching method connects us deeply with our innate rhythmical nature while promoting balance between both brain hemispheres. Source: www.RowanStorm.com

Dr. Khosrow Sobhe (Dr. Kay)
Certified Rug Specialist (CRS)
www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com
www.RugIdea.com
Tel. 310-770-9085

Carpet Concert Los Angeles

Wow!! What a night! Carpet Concert in Levantine  Cultural Center in Los Angeles with Rowan Storm and friends with Persian, Arabic, Armenian, Turkish, Greek and more music and folk dances. For the past few carpet concerts in Los Angeles, I have had the pleasure of providing hand knotted Persian carpets for Rowan Storm. She is a renown musician who plays and teaches frame drum (dayereh and daf). She also sings. It was a sold out event and everybody had to take off his/her shoes to sit on the carpets to listen to the music and watch the dances. It started at 7:30 and ended at around 10:00 pm on Tuesday 05/24/2011. We delivered the carpets at 5:00 pm and returned them around 11:00 pm to our rug gallery.

It was an evening of fun, meditation, and indulgence.

 





Dr. Khosrow Sobhe (Dr. Kay)
Certified Rug Specialist (CRS)
www.LosAngelesRugCleaning.com
www.RugIdea.com
Tel. 310-770-9085

Carpet Concert and Persian Rugs in Los Angeles

Yesterday, I was busy with a carpet concert at the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) on 5814 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036. Rowan Storm, an American lady who took a 3-month trip to Iran in 2006, was the lady who played frame drum (daff) and dayereh, Robyn Friend another American lady who performed wonderful folk Persian and Tatjik dances along with Niel Siegle who played Tar, a guitar like Persian music instrument and Faraz an Iranian artist who played santur performed a remarkable performance. In her last dance, she taught how people could do Qashqai dance.

The music was so fascinating and enchanting that you could mediate and relax with it and feel weightless if you paid attention with your heart and soul and not the ears. I was blown away for minutes. The music and the whole event touched my heart.

It was a Persian style shoes-off concert. The participants were provided with beautiful fabric custom-made bags to put their shoes in. It was an evening of Persian music from different parts of Iran accompanied by some talks by Rowan on different cultural, historical and artistic aspects of the Iranian life with presenting many pictures Rowan had taken during her recent visit to different parts of Iran including Kurdistan.

I had provided the hand knotted Persian carpets on which people sat. We also had a loom and some hand spun yarns and rug literature. Cheri Hunter of the Textile Museum Associates of Southern California had lent the event a wonderful Suzani, hand embroidered in Uzbekistan to be mounted on the wall behind the players. The attendance was very good and actually better than expected. Since participants were allowed to bring in their kids, many children attended the programs which were presented in two parts.

Thanks to the hard work of the museum director, staff, and volunteers. Special thank to Holly Jeger the head of the Public relations who had worked so hard and selflessly for weeks to make this extravaganza possible.

Khosrow Sobhe
Certified Rug Specialist (CRS)
www.RugIdea.com
310-770-9085

Carpet Concert

Interactive Carpet Concert with Rowan Storm & Friends.

Rowan Storm is an American lady who fell in love with Persian music many years ago. She pursued and mastered Daff a Persian frame drum instrument. Rowan traveled to Iran in 2006 by herself and stayed there for three months. She traveled freely to different cities and regions of Iran. She is going to play Persian music in an afternoon of fun and joy.

Saturday | February 21
A special event for families with children ages 3-12
1:30pm – First Performance
2:30pm – Second Performance
Free

Join us for an afternoon of traditional Persian music and be swept away on a magical treat. Kick off your shoes, sit on beautiful Persian carpets, and embark on an interactive journey – exploring music, instruments, and more! We will provide this one-of-a-kind event with beautiful hand knotted Persian rugs. This is going to be a Persian style shoes-off event!

This event will be presented in conjunction with an ongoing exhibition called:

Exploring the Other: Contemporary Iran
through the lens of Iason Athanasiadis
January 25 - March 29, 2009

This groundbreaking and highly relevant exhibit takes the focus off Iran's politicians and realigns it squarely on the country and its people. Exploring the Other challenges the conventional media narrative of Iran by offering rare and candid insight into this enigmatic country from the perspective of an embedded international journalist and photographer. Internationally recognized correspondent and 2008 Nieman Fellow Iason Athanasiadis, who has spent more time than almost any other Western journalist living and working in post-revolutionary Iran, shares his extraordinary experience in this must-see exhibit.

Craft and Folk Art Museum
5814 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Tel. 323.937.4230
www.cafam.org
info@cafam.org

Please RSVP to 323.937.4230 x50 or email workshops@cafam.org

Khosrow Sobhe
Certified Rug Specialist
www.RugIdea.com
310-770-9085