Abrahamic Reunion Interfaith Peace Concert
**ELAHI from Nazareth, Israel – Classic Middle Eastern Music**
**Kalimba & Friends – Upbeat & Bright Local Christian Band – Sing-A-Long**
**Noam Brown – Jewish Songs & Guitar w/ Marijah of REGGAE ALL-STARS drumming**
Join us for a night of beauty, music, friendship, and interfaith peace. We’ll enjoy a Jewish musical offering from Noam Brown, Christian music that’s fun to sing along with by Kalimba & Friends, and an hour-long set by Elahi, a Middle East Musical Ensemble led by Sheikh Abedelsalam and Isra Manasra, Son and Daughter-in-law of Sheikh Ghassan Manasra, AR International Executive Director.
Sheikh Ghassan Manasra will also provide interfaith inspirational messages about the work of the Abrahamic Reunion, a group of Religions & Spiritual Peacemakers (Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Druze) dedicated to bridging the divides in Israel & Palestine.
Free to all! Suggested donation of $10-20 supports the interfaith peacemaking of the Abrahamic Reunion.
For this night especially we pray deeply for peace around the world – in Israel & Palestine, in Syria, across Africa, Asia, Russia, Europe, North and South America, through the oceans, Antartica, Australia, Pacifica, and everywhere in the world, we pray this night for peace together, and may there be peace in every heart, and for every being.
Abed and Isra have opened for Alicia Keys and played all around Israel and Palestine at various venues, festivals, conferences, interfaith gatherings, and peacemaking events, and are classically trained Middle Eastern Musicians. Abed especially has taken the Sufi music passed down through his family and the Qadiri Sufi School in the Holy Land and added to it more instruments. He and his family play these compositions and will take you on an inner journey through the music, chanting, singing, celebrating, and remembrance of the divine essence within each of us.
Abed and Isra Manasra (Son and Daughter-in-law of Sheikh Ghassan Manasra) are visiting Sarasota for December and part of January. They are professional musicians and have opened for Alicia Keys and played all across Israel in many venues, peacemaking events, interfaith conferences, and more.
Musical Instrumentation: Oud (Abed), Vocals (Isra, Ghassan), Kanoun (Hashem), Harmony Vocals (Zainab and Zuhaira), Percussion (Majdi). Classically trained in Middle Eastern and Sufi Music since they were children, Abed and Isra pursued further musical training with the great Kamil Shajrawi of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, one of the famous Middle Eastern Musicians in the Holy Land.
