“Minab Lullaby” Peace Concert

About this event

**Wednesday\, October 7th \| 6:30 – 8:00 pm** **$12 Suggested Donation (No One Turned Away)** ½ of all donations benefit the Minab School Memorial Monument for Peace. It was on Feb. 28, 2025. The first day the U.S. bombed Iran, an elementary school in Minab was struck, killing 168 people - mostly children. **Music composed by Moji Agha, Iranian American Sufi Peace Activist.** About the Minab Lullaby Peace Concerts We've been performing as the Irthlingz Duo for a number of years, doing concerts for peace and environmental healing. We also run the nonprofit, Irthlingz Arts-Based Environmental Education 501(c)(3), which we started in 2002. All the contributions made to this fundraiser will go through Irthlingz and are, therefore, tax-deductible! Peace concerts are very much aligned with our mission of healing the Earth, since war is very environmentally destructive. I've been crossing paths for the last 15 years or so with an Iranian-American Sufi named Moji Agha. Moji is a peace activist and an associate member of Veterans for Peace. Several months ago, Moji approached me about helping him with a song he wrote honoring the victims, mostly children, killed in the elementary school in the city of Minab on the first day of the U.S. bombing of Iran. The song came to him as he awoke one morning. Moji emailed me several audio files of the song and asked for my help in notating, arranging, orchestrating, and ultimately singing the song. I have written out the song in my music notation program and am working on a simple accompaniment that can be played on guitar and violin. Then I'll be working on a more extensive orchestration. Moji has asked me to sing his “Minab Lullaby” as part of a series of live concerts to benefit his Minab School Memorial Monument for Peace project (MISMMOP). Half of the donations generated by the concerts will go to fund the creation of the memorial and have it placed in Minab. The other half will go toward covering Michael's and my travel…