Arts at the Armory Spotlight Series Presents From Baghdad to Brooklyn by Michelle Azar

Sun. Mar. 16, 2025 at 5:00 pm

From Baghdad to Brooklyn is Azar’s story of her ancestors’ immigrant journey charted in a map of music traditions and cultural celebrations.

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With an angelic voice, deep sentiment and humor, Michelle tells a timely story of a family’s love and dysfunction set against an historical and redemptive background.

Azar describes the evolution of From Baghdad to Brooklyn since it’s inception in 2017: “The show has morphed and continues to do so. Sometimes the story is more about fear. Sometimes it is more about redemption. Sometimes the story tracks more my Ashkenazi background, and sometimes, more my Sephardic. Whatever the course this show takes, it is an ongoing discovery of what it still means to live in vague prejudice, in moments of hidden fears and intolerance as fueled by the historical backdrop that I never lived.”

Azar’s performance will be accompanied by oud player Yonatan Battat and pianist Uli Schwendener.

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