BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:31870@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20231117T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20231117T213000 DTSTAMP:20231107T190017Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/rivergigs-presents-an-evening-with- emel-mathlouthi/ SUMMARY:Rivergigs Presents: An Evening with Emel Mathlouthi DESCRIPTION:\n\nAbout this event\n\n\n 3 hours 30 minutes\n Mobile eTicke t\n\n\n\n\n\nEmel Mathlouthi is a Tunisian-American singer-songwriter\, co mposer\, performer and producer whose music has crossed time\, countries a nd continents.\n\n@emelmathlouthi\n\nDoors Open: 6 PM | Show: 7:30 PM\n\n$ 15 Pre-Sale | $20 At Door\n\n21+ w/ID\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn in Tun is\, Emel has built her musical universe inspired by revolutionary artists such as Sheikh Imam\, Bob Dylan\, Joan Baez\, Jefferson Airplane\, The Cr anberries and Tool.\n\nIn 2008 she fled Tunis for Paris after her music wa s banned in Tunisia and she was prevented from performing in the country. With creative freedom in Paris\, she pursued writing and perfecting her pr otest songs\, mainly voice\, guitar\, north african percussions and cello\ , later adding electronic textures which made the body of her first studio album\, Kelmti Horra (My Word Is Free).\n\n \;\n\nIn 2011\, her notor iety increased when she was filmed performing her emblematic song\, also c alled Kelmti Horra\, on Bourguiba Avenue\, in the middle of the Tunisian r evolution\, among thousands of fellow protestors. Broadcast on youtube\, a nd viral on facebook and twitter\, her spontaneous and impassioned perform ance echoed throughout the Arab countries\, each in the throes of revolt\, earning her the moniker “the voice of the Arab Sping” which stayed wi th her for years. In 2016\, she performed Kelmti Horra at the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony\, marking a climax in her journey with this powerful song.\ n\nDetermined to build a sound universe as revolutionary as the texts she has written\, Emel continues her exploration and develops a sound that is unique to her. An electronic music loaded with North African references\, with complex rhythms and light-dark atmospheres\, which is revealed in 201 7 with the release of Ensen (Human)\, her sophomore album signed on the Am erican label Partisan Records.\n\nBased now in New York\, Emel surrounds h erself with producer Valgeir Sigurðson (Sigur Ros\, Feist\, Björk) to de velop a music that sounds like her: sensitive and non-conformist\, away fr om stereotypes and simple ideas.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 023/11/https-cdn.evbuc_.com-images-626106639-1055459759293-1-original.2023 1022-231155.jpeg CATEGORIES:Arab,Arab Ameircan Event,Arab American,Music/Folk/World,Tunisia,Tunisian,Tunisian music LOCATION:Urban Farm Fermentory\, 200 Anderson Street\, Portland\, 04101\, U nited States GEO:43.669409;-70.256368 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=200 Anderson Street\, Portl and\, 04101\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Urban Farm Fermento ry:geo:43.669409,-70.256368 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR