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Yemen Blues Quartet

New England Public Media | By Carey Larsen
Published June 2, 2021 at 2:32 PM EDT
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Outdoor Concert at the Florence Congregational Church
Friday, June 11 at 5 p.m.
 
Ravid Kahalani’s Yemen Blues project begins and ends with the singer’s rhapsodic voice and a Yemeni accent acquired from childhood religious singing — but everything in the middle is global, funky, and outrageous. Kahalani’s music reaches into Moroccan gnawa, Nigerian afrobeat, ecstatic jazz, and global soul.

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Carey Larsen
Carey Larsen is a member of the Marketing, Events and Communications team. She is primarily responsible for creating and managing emails sent to members of the NEPM community. For WGBY, she was the development coordinator, pledge producer, volunteer coordinator and email marketing manager. Prior to that, she was the general manager of the Pioneer Valley Symphony. Carey is a professional musician. She serves as soprano soloist at the First Church of Christ in Longmeadow.
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