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The Chicago music invasion is ‘really” happening: March 5th through March 10th, 2013!!!

IMG_0259After performing in New Orleans in December 2012 the next cities Sohrab wants to visit with his horn are Chicago, Normal and Bloomington which are about 2 hours away from Chicago. This time he’s going alone because all SoSaLa members were not available. In Normal and Bloomington he’s going to play a house concert and guest lecturing at Illinois State University. In Chicago he’s playing with local musicians under the name of SoSaLa or guesting in local bands.

Schedule (will be updated every day)

Tuesday, March 5th, 5:30pm – Guest Artist: Music and Society @ Graduate Seminar Center for the Visual Arts, Illinois State University,
Normal, Illinois

Wednesday, March 6th, 3pm – Guest speaker: Midterm Project critiques
7pm – House Concert @ White’s Place Bloomington, Illinois

Thursday, March 7th, 12pm – Guest Lecture: Professional Practice in Music Business @ Centennial West, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois

Thursday, March 7th, 9pm, $5 – Sohrab guest appearance with HASTAS @ Roxaboxen Exhibitions (in the basement), 2130 W. 21st, Chicago, IL 60608

Friday, March 8th, 11;30am – interview and live performance @ WNUR 89.3 FM. Host: Eric Ricks (jazz)
9pm, $7  – SoSaLa (Sohrab on sax & vocals, Steve Marquette on guitar,  Lucas Gillan on drums and Alex Wing on bass and oud) @ SURPLUS OF OPTIONS, 3664 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago, Il 60613, tel#: 773 827 1330.

Saturday, March 9th, t.b.a. – SoSaLa at t.b.a.

Sunday, March 10th, t.b.a. – SoSaLa at t.b.a.

Video Report: Sohrab played with the THE DISSIDENT ARTS ORCHESTRA

Date: Saturday, February 16, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: 17 Frost Theatre of the Arts
Sohrab was invited to play with the improvisational music repertory ensemble, THE DISSIDENT ARTS ORCHESTRA, which focuses on silent film scores. Under the leadership of John Pietaro this orchestra played music to the classic revolutionary silent film by Eisenstein, “BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN.” Here are two videos from the performance. The first one is the “warm up” before the real performance. And the second one shows the whole performance. Due to using only one camera Sohrab isn’t shown in the second video but you can hear him.

The line-up is:

John Pietaro – vibes, percussion, musical direction
Nora McCarthy – vocals
Cheryl Pyle – flute
Quincy Saul – clarinet
Rocco John Iacovone – soprano and alto saxophones
Patrick Brennan – alto saxophone
Ras Moshe – tenor and soprano saxophones, flutes
Sohrab Saadat Lardjevardi – tenor saxophone and vocal
Nick Gianni – baritone saxophone and bass flute
Alon Nechustan – accordion
Javier Hernandez-Miyares- electric guitar and effects
Laurie Towers- electric bass
Nicolas Letman-Burtinovic – double bass
Hollis Headrick – drumkit, percussion

Video 1

Video 2