Alsarah & the Nubatones enchant audiences with their pulsating rhythms and hypnotic, East African retro-pop, proving that soul transcends cultural and linguistic barriers.
Alsarah & the Nubatones enchant audiences with their pulsating rhythms and hypnotic, East African retro-pop, proving that soul transcends cultural and linguistic barriers.
Inspired by Nubian music’s pentatonic scales, the Brooklyn-based combo blends original material and traditional music of central Sudan with Nubian songs of return, a diasporic form created by Southern Egyptians forced from their land in the 1970s by the Aswan Dam.
A Sudanese-born singer, songwriter, and ethnomusicologist, Alsarah fled to Yemen with her family at the age of 8. They fled again 4 years later, this time to the US, where Alsarah assembled the Nubatones, featuring her sister Nahid, Togo-raised Mawuena Kodjovi on bass and trumpet, percussionist Rami El Aasser, and Brandon Terzic on oud.
$144–$176 per table, seats up to 4 people
Phone: 3015815100
Email: strathmore@strathmore.org
2021/07/29 - 2021/07/29
Music Center at Strathmore
5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD 20852
For full parking information and directions, please visit www.strathmore.org/your-visit/directions-and-parking
Parking in the Grosvenor-Strathmore Metro garage is $5.20 during the week and free on weekends. Strathmore is also accessible via Metro's Red Line, Grosvenor-Strathmore station.
Limited short-term parking also is available at specially marked meters along Tuckerman Lane, which do not require payment after 7pm.