Faris Ishaq is quite simply the unique master of the contemporary jazz ney. The ney is an ancient flute originally from Egypt and ubiquitous in Arabic cultures. Faris took it to Berklee for his World Jazz Masters and blew Dave Liebmann away. Faris and I met in 2018 in Occupied Palestine when I toured a British Council-sponsored musical show about the consequences of Balfour’s impossible promise to both Zionist Jews and the indigenous Palestinians, a promise broken. Under Faris’s leadership BEJE play a unique set with both his and my compositions, grooving poignant and lyrical, though I say it myself.

Nov 29th Redbrick Building 8.00pm https://redbrickbuilding.co.uk/event/faris-ishaq-x-beje/

Nov 30th The Old School Room Curry Rivel 7.30pm https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/beje

Dec 1st 5pm St George’s Bristol TICKETS and descriptor https://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/whats-on/faris-ishaq-x-beje-siblings-not-fools-tour-performance/