@makamsalam + @miraawadofficial + @jerusalemyouthchorus Makam Salam are proud to be featured at the EFG London Jazz Festival, featuring three incredible special guests: Mira Awad, Olcay Bayir and the Jerusalem Youth Chorus Alumni Collective, bringing young Palestinian and Jewish Israeli singers from Jerusalem together on their special international tour. Makam Salam is a London-based collective of Pan-Middle-Eastern diaspora musicians. The band brings together Palestinian, Israeli, Iranian, Lebanese, Turkish, Kurdish, Tunisian, Moroccan, British and Jewish Diaspora musicians, building bridges across cultures and playing for peace and collective liberation. Maqam modes meet jazz improvisation. Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish and Kurdish songs sit next to each other, carried on oud, clarinet, violin, keys, drums and percussion. This special night features Mira Awad, a Palestinian-Israeli singer, songwriter and actor, born in the Galilee village of Rameh. In 2009 she represented Israel at Eurovision alongside Achinoam Nini. It was the first Israeli entry with Arabic lyrics, and the first sung by an artist of Arab origin. Awad has performed with Bobby McFerrin, Andrea Bocelli and Quincy Jones, and appeared at Sanremo in 2025. The New York Times called her voice "intensely seductive... drawn into its mysterious spell."

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