List of Persian/Iranian Events for 2012-04-12

$10 students/$20 general admission
advanced ticket purchase at Brown Paper Tickets
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/user/editevent/233519
A benefit for Iranian Studies at San Jose State University
Join us for a spring celebration of music with Persian-tuned pianist
Ramin Zoufonoun, featuring his "Spring Suite" based on original
compositions, arrangements of classical Persian songs about spring,
as well cross-cultural pieces inspired by American Jazz and Iranian
folk music, based on poetry by Rumi and Fereydun Moshiri. With
musical guests Lynea Diaz-Hagan (vocals), Hossein Massoudi
(vocals), Jamsheed Agahi (daf, tombak). Guest poet Sholeh
Wolpé will read from her new collection, Forbidden: Poems from
Iran and its Exiles (books available for purchase).