Slideshow: A Celebration of Sudanese Music

As part of Berklee’s 2015 Signature Series, the Berklee Performance Center held a concert celebrating music from every region of Sudan, one of the oldest civilizations known to humanity. The concert was a project that show producer and director Mohamed Araki, a Berklee student from Sudan, had “waited [his] entire life” to present.

October 30, 2015

As part of Berklee’s 2015 Signature Series, the Berklee Performance Center held a concert celebrating music from every region of Sudan, one of the oldest civilizations known to humanity. The show featured student compositions and arrangements as well as many guest artists, including singer Abu Araki, internationally acclaimed hip-hop artist Emmanuel Jal, and multi-instrumentalist Asim Gorashi.

The concert, named Al-Murtaja—which can be translated from Arabic as “the thing or person people are waiting for”—was very much a project that show producer and director Mohamed Araki, a Berklee student from Sudan, had “waited [his] entire life” to present.