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Please join Al Qahwa on June 18, 2023 to celebrate Please join Al Qahwa on June 18, 2023 to celebrate the release of our new recording "Weyn Allah" at the Tranzac! Link to the Facebook event in bio 💕 @maryemhassantollar @ernietollar @demetriospetsalakis @naghmehfarahmand_ @waleed.abdulhamid10 @roulasaid7 @speakmusicpr @tranzac292
We are so excited to share our new Al Qahwa record We are so excited to share our new Al Qahwa recording “Weyn Allah” with you - coming out June 2023
Mark your calendars for our CD release concert - Sunday, June 18, 2023 - 7 to 10 pm with guest artist @roulasaid7 - at The Tranzac - main hall.  @maryemhassantollar @ernietollar @demetriospetsalakis @naghmehfarahmand_ @waleed.abdulhamid10 @onegirl
My favourite part of making a new recording is mix My favourite part of making a new recording is mixing and mastering with this guy - Jono, you are za best!!!! 

Al Qahwa’s newest recording “Weyn Allah” (Where Is God?) will be out in June 2023 - so excited to share beautiful new tunes and collaborations by members of Al Qahwa and then going on the road with the sextet - to a few cities in BC, The NAC in Ottawa and some other cities in Ontario.

 (The sextet is: Maryem Hassan Tollar , Ernie Tollar , Demetrios Petsalakis , Naghmeh Farahmand , Waleed Abdulhamid , and Roula Said)

If you are interested in having us in your city, or festival, DM me 🙂

Yay!!!!! 💕 @maryemhassantollar @ernietollar @demetriospetsalakis @naghmehfarahmand_ @waleed.abdulhamid10 @roulasaid7 @jonojgrant
Al Qahwa has been in the studio for the last few w Al Qahwa has been in the studio for the last few weeks working on our 4th release and we are so excited to share these new tunes with you in the spring 2023.  In the meantime, make sure you have our complete catalogue by checking out our bandcamp page, since it is bandcamp Friday today - thank you for the support! 

Our last release "African Routes" has our original quartet (Maryem Hassan Tollar, Ernie Tollar, Demetri Petsalakis, Naghmeh Farahmand) + Waleed Abdulhamid, Fethi Nadjem and Roula Said. @maryemhassantollar @ernietollar @demetriospetsalakis @naghmehfarahmand_ @waleed.abdulhamid10 @fethi_nadjem @roulasaid7  Link in bio
Well that was a fun weekend of gigs 💕- LuA and Well that was a fun weekend of gigs 💕- LuA and Al Qahwa at The Crow’s Nest 😊 @ernietollar @naghmehfarahmand_ @maryemhassantollar
Day 2 - Al Qahwa - new recording - 9 new tunes com Day 2 - Al Qahwa - new recording - 9 new tunes coming your way this spring 2023 @maryemhassantollar @ernietollar @demetriospetsalakis @waleed.abdulhamid10
Guess what Al Qahwa is doing this week? We’re m Guess what Al Qahwa is doing this week?  We’re making a new album - to be released in the spring/summer 2023 - woo hoo! @maryemhassantollar @ernietollar @demetriospetsalakis @naghmehfarahmand_ @waleed.abdulhamid10 @laurenb_freeforall
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It was a late night - but when Al Qahwa hit the st It was a late night - but when Al Qahwa hit the stage for our FMO showcase in London, we rocked it! Thank you to all of the people who stayed out and big shout out to Oisín Hannigan who sat in with us :) - It was great to see many of our friends in the little green room just behind the stage @maryemhassantollar @ernietollar @demetriospetsalakis @naghmehfarahmand_ @waleed.abdulhamid10 @roulasaid7 @oisin_hannigan @aaronlightstone @leen_hamo
Excited to announce that we’ll be performing a S Excited to announce that we’ll be performing a Showcase at the 2022 Folk Music Ontario Conference, October 13-16, in London, ON! 
Our showcase will be on Saturday night - October 15 - at 12:10 a.m. (after midnight) at The London Music Hall of Fame. If you are at the conference, or in London, come on down and enjoy our set and come and say hello!
Check out the website at https://folkmusicontario.org to see the full lineup.
#fmo2022 #fmo #folkmusicontario #folkmusic #musicindustry #fmoshowcase @folkmusicontario @maryemhassantollar @ernietollar @demetriospetsalakis @naghmehfarahmand_ @waleed.abdulhamid10 @roulasaid7
Al Qahwa - Taste of the Middle East 2022 - “He g Al Qahwa - Taste of the Middle East 2022 - “He greeted me, he greeted me, he greeted me, and when he greeted me, boy oh boy did he greet me” (If you know what I mean 😉) “Sallam ‘Alay”
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Al Qahwa is looking forward to showcasing at the F Al Qahwa is looking forward to showcasing at the Folk Music Ontario (FMO) conference in London, ON on Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 12:10 a.m. (OK so technically it is Sunday morning - but for practical purposes it's Saturday night - hahaha)! @maryemhassantollar @ernietollar @naghmehfarahmand_ @demetriospetsalakis @waleed.abdulhamid10 @roulasaid7 Any friends in London - come on out 🙂 - you can check out all the spotlight showcase artists at this link:

https://folkmusicontario.org/spotlight-showcase-artists
Don’t let a little rain scare you! Come on down Don’t let a little rain scare you! Come on down to “Taste of the Middle East” at Nathan Phillips Square to hear Al Qahwa at 1:30 pm @maryemhassantollar @ernietollar @waleed.abdulhamid10 @naghmehfarahmand_ @roulasaid7
So excited to play with Al Qahwa at Taste of The M So excited to play with Al Qahwa at Taste of The Middle East on Sunday, July 24, 2022 from 1:30 to 2:30 pm at Nathan Phillips Square. We’ll be playing some fun Egyptian folky tunes as well as some original tunes too - come on down it’s FREE! It’s Outdoors! And there’ll be yummy Food! 💕 😋 🤤 🥰 Photo by Jeff Fasano #tasteofthemiddleeast2022 @maryemhassantollar @ernietollar @waleed.abdulhamid10 @naghmehfarahmand_ @roulasaid7 @hamsadiabfarhat @tasteofthemiddleeasttoronto
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