New York Oud Festival Night One: Brandon Terzic and Adam Good

The New York Oud Festival is a multi-day, multi-venue music festival that displays the oud and its versatility as it exists in New York’s diverse musical culture. The NYOF celebrates the oud and its wide-ranging influence on global music culture, showcasing artists from a multitude of traditions and contexts, and demonstrating why the oud continues to be one of the world’s most beloved instruments. Day 1 of the festival will feature sets by oudists Brandon Terzic and Adam Good.

Iconoclastic oudist Brandon Terzic has performed with everyone from rising Sudanese pop Diva Alsarah to master composer Henry Threadgill. Drawing on his blues guitar roots, he absorbed the wellspring of Malian griot and Moroccan Gnawa traditions, as well as the downtown NYC improv aesthetic, and forged it into the sonic calligraphy of the Arabic Oud.

Adam Good is a Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist and composer working with contemporary modal music in the traditional styles of Turkey, Greece and Eastern Europe. His musicianship on guitar, Turkish ud, tanbur, and knowledge of Turkish makam has made Adam a fixture of the Balkan and Middle Eastern music scenes in the US and abroad. Adam’s studies of the ud, beginning in 2005 with Turkish ud master Necati Çelik and makam based composition with Ross Daly have had a profound impact on his musical journey.