Yuval Ron Ensemble Featuring Sufi Master Khawaja Ehrari
Sacred Sounds of Healing Series
Saturday, February 21, 2026
4 PM – Workshop | 7 PM – Doors | 8 PM – Show
Judson Memorial Church – 55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
Tickets: Advance $25 | Day of Show $30 | Advance with Workshop $35 | Day of Show with Workshop $40
WMI Member Prices: Advance $20 | Day of Show $24 | Advance with Workshop $28 | Day of Show with Workshop $32
The Sacred Sounds of Healing series is made possible with the generous support of Chandrika Tandon.
The Yuval Ron Ensemble featuring Sufi Master musician Khawaja Ehrari, unite the sacred musical traditions of Sufism and Judaism into an unusual musical mystical celebration. A marriage of tradition and innovation. This exhilarating musical journey is full of joy, hope, and deep spirituality, celebrating the underlying unity shared by all people, regardless of nationality, race, religion, and culture. With the addition of the whirling dervish, this program is a feast for the senses!
Performers:
Khawaja Ehrari: Vocal and Ney
Elinor Sitrish: Vocals
Jamie Papish: Percussion
Yuval Ron: Artistic Director, Oud, backup vocals, and storyteller
Christopher Briggs: Whirling Dervish
Yuval Ron is an award-winning composer, artist, educator, peace activist, and record producer. He has been involved in the world of music therapy since a 1990 commission from the Monroe Institute for a music composition incorporating their Hemi-Sync sound technology that uses binaural beats to synchronize the brain’s hemispheres. He has collaborated with neuroscientists and healers and founded Metta Mindfulness Music for healing music. Yuval has performed for notable figures, including the Dalai Lama and Sufi leaders, and lectured at prestigious institutions such as Yale and UCLA. This event will explore Sufi and Hebrew Kabbalistic healing sounds. There will be an afternoon workshop preceding the concert performance in the evening.
The Sacred Sounds of Healing series highlights artists, cross-cultural collaborations, and interactive ancillary events that celebrate and promote the transformative power of music and sounds from diverse spiritual and ethnic traditions. This initiative aims to heal and foster peace, joy, and unity through the universal language of music.
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Judson Memorial Church seeks to be a just, diverse, vibrant, and worshipping spiritual community through the pursuit of social justice, creative expression, and sacred exploration of its own Protestant church roots and the wisdom of other traditions.
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