Hayiran Ensemble by Rumi Canada

Join us for a night of reimagined Persian music from Hayiran Ensemble, featuring Shaho Andalibi and Amir Koushkani. Inspired by the diversity of Iran’s regional music, the quintet fuses traditional, folkloric, spiritual, and modern styles to create a transcendent new sound, united with Sufi whirling.

The ensemble takes its name from a stage in the Sufi spiritual journey. Meaning bewilderment, hayiran comes with years of training and is a type of ecstasy that is not be talked about, only experienced.

Hayiran Ensemble is comprised of Shaho Andalibi (ney/vocals), Amir Koushkani (tar/vocals), Naghmeh Farahmand (percussion), Nima Haghighi (cello), and Farzad AttarJafari (whirling dervish).

Presented in collaboration with Rumi Canada, this performance is part of our 2019/20 season, Listening to Each Other, which pays tribute to the role of the performing arts in celebrating diversity, preserving culture, and spurring social change.