Yasmine Hamdan

Gig Alert: Yasmine Hamdan at Le Poisson Rouge

Gig Alerts | Nov 16, 2017

Gig Alert: Yasmine Hamdan at Le Poisson Rouge
Tickets: $25 advance | $35 day of show. 18+. Show at 8PM.

Yasmine Hamdan is a Lebanese singer whose embrace of cutting edge rock and electronic music techniques made her a leader of the underground music scene in the Near East in the aughts. She later moved to France, and was introduced to an international audience when film maker Jim Jarmusch set one of the scenes of his movie Only Lovers Left Alive in a club at a Yasmine Hamdan performance. Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan performs tonight at Le Poisson Rouge.  

FYI, this is the song she was singing in the film, "Hal": 

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