Name: dancing home
Start: 2025-08-08T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-08T21:30:00-04:00
Location: Community MusicWorks

dancing home

Palaver Strings is a musician-led string ensemble and nonprofit organization based in Portland, ME. Founded in 2014, Palaver is a forward-thinking ensemble whose mission is to strengthen and inspire community. Palaver has toured widely and enjoyed residencies at Rockport Music, Boston Center for the Arts, Bay Chamber Concerts, and Longy School of Music, where ensemble members teach workshops, master classes, and graduate courses on music and community engagement. Palaver’s most recent album Ready or Not (Azica Records, 2022) has received acclaim by publications such as The Guardian and BBC Music Magazine. In 2019, Palaver launched the Palaver Music Center, which now serves hundreds of students each year from our downtown Portland location.

Palaver Strings

Join us for Dancing Home, a vibrant program celebrating dance, cultural roots, and new musical voices.

Community MusicWorks

Chamber orchestra Palaver Strings presents Dancing Home, a program of lively, dance-oriented music for strings. Dancing Home features Kinan Azmeh’s Syrian Dances, commissioned by Palaver in 2022, Palaver’s unique arrangement of Bartok’s Romanian Dances, and a set of original tunes by Maya French and Jamie Oshima. The centerpiece of this program is the world premiere of a new commission by Kareem Roustom called hawwash, which explores themes of cultural heritage, displacement, resilience, and collaboration through the lens of dance.

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