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SUMMARY:: Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room: LAAF: Aar Maanta
DESCRIPTION:\nFriday 7 July\, 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiverpool Phi
 lharmonic Music Room\n£10 / £12 Book Tickets\n\nSomali-British singer-s
 ongwriter\, Aar Maanta\, brings his eclectic music blend and celebration o
 f Somali culture to Liverpool Arab Arts Festival in a special concert. \n
 \nAs a singer and songwriter\, Aar Maanta has embraced a mix of styles inc
 luding influences from rock and reggae jostling with traditional Arabic an
 d Somali music. Despite graduating with a science degree\, Aar Maanta purs
 ued music. He began the Horn 2 Groove recording project which generated hi
 s 2009 debut album\, Hiddo &amp\; Dhaqan. The album merged traditional So
 mali music with Western influences like house and reggae into a fusion des
 cribed as Afro-hop. In 2010\, the Paris-based radio station StarAfrica rec
 ognized Aar Maanta’s achievement in creating this new sound when it name
 d him “A Somali Culture Shaper in London”.   \n\nHe released the 20
 14 EP\, Somali Songs from the Diaspora to connect with Somalis around th
 e world. Aar Maanta hopes to take his music to the wider community with th
 e release of Ubadkaa Mudnaanta Leh and an additional album in the works 
 to be released in 2023.  \n\nAar Maanta’s activism\, work and creativi
 ty led him to become a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Com
 missioner of Refugees (UNHCR)\, while leading one of the only active touri
 ng bands in the world that plays live Somali music. His work includes the 
 recent UNHCR campaign about irregular youth migration in the Horn of Afric
 a\, Dangerous Crossings\, for which his song “Tahriib” was reproduced 
 and performed in collaboration with leading artists from Africa. \n\niTun
 es Spotify Amazon \n\nhttps://www.instagram.com/aarmaanta/ \n\nhttps:/
 /www.facebook.com/AarMaanta\n\nVenue address: Liverpool Philharmonic Hall 
 Music Room\, Sugnall Street\, Liverpool L1 9BP\n\n\n\n
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