There's a new record that takes listeners from the western edge of Morocco right to the heart of Baghdad — by way of Bloomington, Ind. It's the new, self-titled album by the Bloomington-based band called Salaam.
Classically trained Iraqi-American violist Dena El Saffar founded Salaam in 1993 after a journey she took to Baghdad with her father at the age of 17. Because she took her viola along to practice, that trip changed her life.
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