Refugee Songs: A Musical Journey

Refugee Songs is a new musical/concert experience that weaves together an original world fusion and acoustic-rock musical score with spoken word poetry and storytelling to narrate the journey of a young Persian American musician uprooted from Iran after the 1979 Revolution and his subsequent struggle to create a new home for himself in the United States. Interwoven with spoken word poetry inspired by oral histories gathered from refugees and other involuntary migrants of all statuses also living in Southern California, Refugee Songs offers an intimate close-up on one young man