Tom's guests are Jeremy Lyons and Aishah Alfadhalah.
Lyons is a guitarist and composer, and a member of Pique Collective, the Baltimore-based contemporary music ensemble, whose fellow members* join Jeremy in Studio A today for a brief performance of one of his original compositions. Alfadhalah, a native of Kuwait, is one of the founders of the Mera Kitchen Collective, an organization here in Baltimore that empowers female immigrants through food entrepreneurship.
They will all be part of “Today I Welcome You, Tomorrow I Welcome You,”-- an event of music, art and good food centered on the stories of recent immigrants and refugees in Baltimore. It takes place at The 2640 Space, at 2640 Saint Paul St. in Baltimore, this Sun. Nov. 4, from 6 - 8 pm.
*Pique Collective is Lisa Perry (soprano), Stephanie Ray (piccolo), Nonoka Mizukami (bongos), Peter Kibbe (cello), and Jeremy Lyons (guitar).
Today's conversation and performance by the Pique Collective were livestreamed on WYPR's Facebook page, and you can see the video here.
