Note: This show is cancelled / postponed due to health concerns around the coronavirus COVID-19, and the tour complications of Nadah El Shazly and her band from Egypt. Please stay tuned for updates on rescheduling her tour for later in 2020.

Felton Music Hall & Indexical Presents Nadah El Shazly, a singer and composer living and working in Cairo. She released her critically acclaimed debut album AHWAR in Nov 2017 via Nawa Recordings. Backing up her release with extensive worldwide touring through a solo set and a four-piece band, El Shazly has been featured in local and international festivals including Le Guess Who?, REWIRE, Best Kept Secret, Supersonic and many more. She continues to compose for film and visual art. Aurora Beam, Watsonville jazz-punk duo with math rock influences, opens the show.

(Note: Indexical’s 50% membership discount is not yet applicable for Felton Music Hall events.)

Nadah El Shazly

Nadah El Shazly is a singer and composer living and working in Cairo. She released her critically acclaimed debut album AHWAR in Nov 2017 via Nawa Recordings. Backing up her release with extensive worldwide touring through a solo set and a four-piece band, El Shazly has been featured in local and international festivals including Le Guess Who?, REWIRE, Best Kept Secret, Supersonic and many more. She continues to compose for film and visual art.

Two years in the making, Ahwar was composed, written and produced by El Shazly herself in collaboration with Maurice Louca and Sam Shalabi on co-composition and arrangement duties. The album was crafted across two continents, between Canada and Egypt, and features the best of Montreal’s contemporary-classical and improvised music scene, most of whom are members of Shalabi’s Land of Kush.

Aurora Beam

Aurora Beam, the one and only jazz punk duo from Watsonville, CA emerged from a summer of PokémonGO and small town boredom. 
 The band mixes elements from jazz, prog, and punk music to make a new and innovative sound. 
 They push the limits not only sonically, but creativity as well. Being only a two piece and also instrumental, there’s nothing left to be desired. 
 Aurora Beam music pushes and pulls, falls and picks up, with unexpected turns at every corner, it leaves you wanting more.