Shows

Thursday, Oct. 13, 9pm at The Living Room, NYC. difrent: CD release party! Ticket sales to be announced soon! 154 Ludlow St. Kicks off TAKE A STAND TOUR!

Sunday, Nov. 6, The Southern, Charlottesville, VA TAKE A STAND TOUR!

Monday, Nov. 7, 6-9pm at Capitale for Auburn’s Peace is Possible Ceremony for global youth TAKE A STAND TOUR!

November 15, The Tin Angel, Philadelphia, PA, TAKE A STAND TOUR!

 

Sept. 21, Busboys and Poets, Hyattsville, Md/DC area, at Zinn Room inauguration with Amy Goodman, Marian Wright Edelman, Bernice Johnson Reagon and more…

THURSDAY, May 12! Join Stephan Said with guests DJ Spooky, Kevin Hunter, George Mitchell, Art Baron, Steve Elson, Yousif Sheronick, John Carlson, Chris Infusino and more, Drom, 85 Ave. A, between 5/6th St’s! The show is going to rock!

April 12, #Tahrir#2Madison, Drom, NYC

Mar 10, Drom Residency

Dec. 8, Stephan Said receives the annual 2010 Meyer Risk Taker Award for his career at the forefront music and social change today

Dec. 1, difrent: and Amnesty Int’l celebrated the “Next World Party” at drom! Stephan, Morley, The Mast ft. Haale, Genesis Be, The Peace Poets, Art Baron, Earl Gardner, Steve Elson, Mino Cinelu, Kevin Hunter, George Mitchell, Yousif Sheronick. A great global dance mix was spun by Arrow Chrome. It was an inspirational party for world changers.

Nov. 15, Words Without Borders Gala, Stephan opened the evening with songs in Arabic and Urdu. Other guests included Shoreh Aghdashloo, Reza Aslan, Najila Said, and others. Bohemian National Hall.

Sept. 20th, difrent: and Take A Stand global video collaboration OFFICIAL launch concert a GREAT success. With Blitz The Ambassador, Morley, and an all-start band, Le Poisson Rouge, NYC.

Sept. 19th, Millennium Development Goals Awards Gala, The Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Grandballroom, New York City. Stephan opened the red-carpet event with “Take A Stand and announced the launch of difrent:! Private event.

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Updates

Stephan Said Releases NextWorld Player and difrent: Videos To Build Global Movement

Stephan Said launches a NextWorld Player of songs to build the global movement, as well as interviews with South African Anti-Apartheid hero Vusi Mahlasela, Warren Haynes, Amadou and Mariam, Pete Seeger and more calling on musicians to sing freedom songs with via www.difrent.org, the one-stop for music and culture for social change. See the page Musicians Unite [...]

Time Magazine on Stephan his Music and the Occupy Movement

Time Magazine’s article on Stephan chronicling his role in helping ignite both the Arab Spring and th Occupy Movements and his vision for a global movement!

Aslan Media: Stephan Said: Changing the World Through Music

Here are Part 1 and Part 2 of Aslan Media’s article and interview with Stephan this month from their new music Monday’s series. http://www.aslanmedia.com/music/306-music-artist-profile/4214-stephen-said-changing-the-world-through-music http://www.aslanmedia.com/music/306-music-artist-profile/4325-stephan-said-pt-2

NPR Talk of the Nation on difrent, Occupy Wall Street & building a global movement

NPR’s Neal Conan speaks with Stephan on Talk of The Nation about his new album, rising from blacklisting to foreshadowing the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street with the new album.

PRI’s The World interviews Stephan about difrent:

On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, PRI’s The World talked to Stephan about his upcoming album and difrent, his biggest global initiative for peace, and how his experience of having been blacklisted as a prominent Arab American voice for peace inspired his dream to unite people worldwide.

Music/Video

Stephan Sings What Is America at Foley Square 11.11.11

Live at the Veterans Day OWS concert with Joan Baez and others, video by Sandi Bachom.

difrent: an album dedicated to building the international movement for change

The infectious new album that presaged both the Arab Spring and and Occupy Wall St. Movement with it’s call for a non-violent international movment for a more equitable global society. Anthems in English, Arabic, French. You can order digital copies on iTunes HERE! Physical copies with Mariko Jesse’s beautiful illustrations and Stephan’s liner notes that called for uniting [...]

K-Salaam and Beatnick remix Take A Stand!

Download the new remix of Take A Stand by K-Salaam an Beatnick, HERE! They take Stephan’s global hiphopfolkraprockpunkcountry anthem for unity to another dimension. Check out their site

Stephan Sings live on Democracy Now from Liberty Plaza

Here’s Democracy Now’s live footage of Stephan singing Take A Stand, Another World Is Possible and The Bell for Amy Goodman and the crowds at Liberty Plaza/Zuccotti Park.

Al Ahram publishes “Aheb Aisht Al Huriyah” at Liberty Plaza

The biggest Egyptian, and Arabic newspaper found this video of Stephan leading people in New York chanting “I Love The Life of Freedom” in Arabic from the first week the Occupy movement began! Global!