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Watch this holiday concert that was recorded live on Saturday 12/18/2021 at Cha Chi Ming Recital Hall of the Bowes Center, San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Sponsored by Palestine Museum US, the concert featured Palestinian musician Ronnie Malley and members of the ASWAT Ensemble.

About Ronnie Malley

Ronnie Malley is a Palestinian multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, sound designer, producer, actor, playwright, educator, and executive director of Intercultural Music Production. He is author of the acclaimed solo play, Ziryab, The Songbird of Andalusia, co-author of the Kennedy Center Citizen Artist award-winning play American Griot, and has composed and performed in regional and international productions including Disney’s The Jungle Book, Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s The White Snake, and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre’s Macbeth. With a degree in Global Music Studies from DePaul University, Ronnie is a teaching artist with Chicago Public Schools, Global Voices Initiative, Chicago Arts Partnership in Education, a faculty member at Old Town School of Folk Music, and a guest lecturer at universities. He is currentlypursuing a graduate degree in linguistics and Semitic languages at the University of Chicago.

About ASWAT Ensemble

ASWAT is the Bay Area’s Premier Arab Music Ensemble. True to Zawaya’s commitment to pluralism and inclusion, Aswat is a multi-ethnic and multi-racial music ensemble that reaches out to the diverse Bay Area community with folkloric, classical, and contemporary Arabic music. Aswat’s doors remain open to all who want to participate in the exciting, enriching exchange between Arab Americans and other communities through the universal language of music.

The Aswat Ensemble performs contemporary, classical, and folk songs from the Arab world. The ensemble plays traditional musical instruments such as the qanun (trapezoidal zither), ‘oud (lute), nay (reed flute), Kaman (violin), riqq/daff (tambourine), tar and darbukkah/tablah (goblet drum).