HiJaz Dreams - Arab Music Workshop
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WORKSHOP with HIJAZ DREAMS
5.30pm Saturday 19th September
For those interested, join the members of Hijaz Dreams for a one hour workshop at 5.30pm focusing on Arabic music, scales, and approaching Arabic music as a western musician with Michael Currie, double bass, Khajak Khachigian, Guitar and Yousef Alreemawi, Organ.
Tickets $30 ( Concert and Workshop package $55 saving $10)
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HIJAZ DREAMS CONCERT
A side project of the wildly popular Tarab
Saturday 19 September 7.30pm
“The result was a blissful, hypnotic transportation." The Guardian, 18th Jan 2026
Michael Currie - Double Bass
Khajak Khachigian - Guitar
Yousef Alreemawi - Organ
Hijaz Dreams pays homage to centuries old songs and improvisation techniques, whilst setting these same pieces free across flowing jazz-inspired taksims. Taksims are improvised instrumental solo or prelude in traditional Middle Eastern and Turkish music.
Hijaz Dreams is a music ensemble born of and inspired by the haphazard forces of history, culture, migration and improvisation.
The ensemble uses these same forces to craft our performance. Hijaz Dreams uses melodies written by an Arab composer from the last decade or the last millennium, delicately weaving these ancient Arabic songs and chants into new clothes in an unusual stripped-down format of double bass, guitar and organ.
Tickets $35 ( Concert and Workshop package $55 saving $10)
Concert tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/hijaz-dreams
5.30pm Saturday 19th September
For those interested, join the members of Hijaz Dreams for a one hour workshop at 5.30pm focusing on Arabic music, scales, and approaching Arabic music as a western musician with Michael Currie, double bass, Khajak Khachigian, Guitar and Yousef Alreemawi, Organ.
Tickets $30 ( Concert and Workshop package $55 saving $10)
--------------------
HIJAZ DREAMS CONCERT
A side project of the wildly popular Tarab
Saturday 19 September 7.30pm
“The result was a blissful, hypnotic transportation." The Guardian, 18th Jan 2026
Michael Currie - Double Bass
Khajak Khachigian - Guitar
Yousef Alreemawi - Organ
Hijaz Dreams pays homage to centuries old songs and improvisation techniques, whilst setting these same pieces free across flowing jazz-inspired taksims. Taksims are improvised instrumental solo or prelude in traditional Middle Eastern and Turkish music.
Hijaz Dreams is a music ensemble born of and inspired by the haphazard forces of history, culture, migration and improvisation.
The ensemble uses these same forces to craft our performance. Hijaz Dreams uses melodies written by an Arab composer from the last decade or the last millennium, delicately weaving these ancient Arabic songs and chants into new clothes in an unusual stripped-down format of double bass, guitar and organ.
Tickets $35 ( Concert and Workshop package $55 saving $10)
Concert tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/hijaz-dreams
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359 Barker St, Castlemaine VIC 3450, Australia, 359 Barker St, Castlemaine VIC 3450, Australia, Castlemaine
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