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Featured are Uzbeki violinist Nariman Asanov, a leading exponent of the musical tradition of the Crimean Tatars, who is joined by Patrick Farrell on accordion; Beth Bahia Cohen, a Turkish yayli tanbur player who has performed with masters of bowed instruments from the Balkans and the Middle East; Ahmet Erdogdular, Turkish tanbur (long-necked plucked lute) player and singer who is one of the most important musicians of the new generation in Turkish classical music; Nikolay Kolev, a virtuoso gadulka (pear-shaped fiddle) player hailing from the village of Karavelovo in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria; Julian Kytasty, one of the world's premier bandura (Ukrainian harp-lute) players; and the extraordinary Christos Tiktapanidis, one of the few musicians in the US who plays the Pontic Greek lyra.

Tickets:
$30 (includes all-day entrance to the Museum galleries);
$15 for students on day of performance with ID
Tickets can be reserved at 212-570-3949
or online at metmuseum.org/tickets

Co-presented with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Major funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Heritage and Preservation.