Funoon and Barzakh bring back The Um Kulthum Workshop to Funoon Stage. Featuring Najla al-Arabi and Sami Abu Shumays with The Umm Kulthum Workshop orchestra.

Faat il-maad and Gholobt Asalah

Tunisian-Canadian singer Najla Al-Arabi brings her soulful renditions of Umm Kulthum back to the series. We're also joined by many of the finest Arab musicians in NYC:

Insia Malik and Sarah Mueller, violins

Mohamed Salah, oud

Gideon Forbes, nay & saxophone

Josh Farrar, electric guitar

Sprocket Royer, bass

Johnny Farraj & Alber Baseel, percussion

The Umm Kulthum Workshop is a concert series dedicated to presenting the long songs of Umm Kulthum in their entirety, and reviving the performance practice of repeating sections, improvising, and extending them to create heightened states of tarab.