The Middle Eastern Treasures Concert and potluck feast features: Arabic flamenco fusion music with Georges Lammam, violin and vocals, Gabriel Navia, flamenco guitar, Mary Ellen Donald, doumbec drum and Brian Nutson, tambourine traditional Persian music with a modern twist by Mehr Ensemble co-directed by Neema Hekmat and Amir-Abbas Etemadzadeh multi talented dancer, Hannah Romanowsky with the Romanz Dancers Mozaik, singing a cappella harmonies in folk songs from around the world two large percussion ensembles performing compositions by Mary Ellen and plenty of time for audience dancing.
Mary Ellen Donald has been a nationally acclaimed author, instructor and performer in Middle Eastern percussion for over 40 years. Currently she teaches many students the doumbec drum, Arabic tambourine, frame drum, and finger cymbals in her home studio in West Oakland. For over 20 years she has been putting on Middle Eastern Treasures concerts once or twice a year. In a small portion of each concert Mary Ellen includes her advanced students in a large percussion ensemble playing one of her compositions.
Mary Ellen likes to begin each concert by saying to the audience, "We invite you to join us musicians in celebrating this awesome gift of life and love through music and dance". The celebration aspect of these concerts is enhanced by the potluck feature, where everyone in the audience brings food for the feast and Mary Ellen provides a variety of beverages for all.
Mary Ellen has been blind for most of her seventy one years on this planet, certainly not seeming to be held back by this condition. She continually gives thanks for her extraordinary loving community of family, friends and students who support her in her artistic endeavors. Mary Ellen Donald embraces life fully and it shows in her concerts, her classes and in her daily life.
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