Opium Moon , 2019 Grammy Award Winner

Published: Aug. 23, 2019, 9 p.m.

Join us as we have 2019 Grammy Award Winners Opium Moon\n\n\xa0 \xa0Opium Moon is Kama Sutra music...a sensual and groovy collaboration of\xa0master musicians LiliHaydn on Violin/Voice, Hamid Saeidi on Santoor\xa0(Persian hammered dulcimer) and voice, MB Gordy on ancient percussion,\xa0and Itai Disraeli on fretless bass. We come from the corners of the\xa0world\u2014Israel, Iran, and the US\u2014-making peace through harmony.\n\nOpium Moon\u2019s\xa0name was inspired by a poem by the great Sufi poet Hafiz, in which he says:\n\nThe bird\u2019s favorite songs\n\nYou do not hear,\n\nFor their most flamboyant music takes place\n\nWhen their wings are stretched\n\nAbove the trees\n\nAnd they are smoking the opium of pure freedom\u2026\n\nI once asked a bird,\n\n\u201cHow is it that you fly in this gravity\n\nOf darkness?\u201d\n\nShe responded,\n\n\n\u201cLove lifts Me\u201d