MUSIC

Nibal Malshi: Women in the Golden Age of Arab Music

SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2023
8:00 PM

Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue (entrance on Third Avenue), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn

$30 advance; $35 door; $25 student/seniors at door
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Twentieth Century Arab classical music — which I’m not sure, based on the present singer’s recordings, was so strictly differentiated from pop music — is a treasure trove: the music has drive, rhythmic complexity, unexpected harmonics, haunting melodies. You can only suspect that prejudice is the only thing that could have kept it from getting wider attention in this country. Nibal Malshi — raised in Palestine, now resident in Texas — is, as the promotional materials claim, an exquisite singer.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Outstanding Palestinian at AlBadawi.