Asma Ghanem is a Palestinian visual artist & experimental musician, born in Damascus-Syria(1991). She has a B.A. from The International Academy of Arts-Palestine & M.A. degree in Audio-Visual Arts from ISDAT(École supérieure des beaux-arts de Toulouse)in France. Asma has participated in exhibitions, residencies and workshops in Italy, Germany, France, Austria, USA, Lebanon, UAE, Norway, Jordan and Palestine and was awarded the 3rd prize in the YAYA (The Young Artist Award- The Hassan Hourani Award, 2016)for her experimental music project (Homeland is…). She was also awarded a special mention in the Palest’in & out Festival in Paris in 2015 for her Photography project. Asma participated as a Fellow in OneBeat 2017 global music exchange, a U.S. State Department initiative managed by Bang on a Can’s Found Sound Nation that each year brings outstanding individual musicians from around the world to the U.S. for four weeks of collaborative creation, performance, and engagement with communities.
For more information & projects: asma.ghanem.art@gmail.com

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When four recently graduated college students came back to the Northern VA/DC area this past year, a seed was planted, and what grew out of that seed was, The Elegant Plums. What started as a project between members Taylor Stevens and Matt Migliore in the Summer of 2013 took some turns and soon added members Devin Galloway on keys and then Danny Price on drums to complete the group. While their sound is still in its early days, they have proven time and again to be able to hold their elegance and keep the crowd jammin'. The members of this group have influence from all realms of the music world and have brought those sounds together to create a new blend of many genres. To know The Elegant Plums one must experience their fun blend of creative covers and originals that can turn any normal evening, into an elegant one.

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