Mikham Beram Kooh - ميخوام برم کوه

I lived in my apartment on d’Orléans Ave in Hochelaga for more than 6 years. This apartment has been a place of stability, healing and creation for me. I wanted to create an intimate video series recorded in the different rooms to help me immortalize the way it will always be to me. This one is called Mikham Beram Kooh. It’s an Iranian folk song that I learned from another musician. If you want to know more about the sweet backstory, keep reading. There are three other songs I’ve posted before this one. This one is song number 4. Special thanks to Vincent Schneider for the audio and video recording, and to my pup Whistler for remaining quiet. I didn’t feel like this song was my strongest performance of the series. I sang it because Vincent asked me to. Hesitantly I sang it. But today, I feel like it’s important for me to share an Iranian folk song with you. It’s a bit of a long story about how this song became a part of my setlist. It’s beautiful. Let me know in the comment if you read all of it. I was at Folk Alliance INTERNATIONAL Conference last February, and was blown away by all the folk songs I was hearing from different parts of the world. It inspired me to sing more in Farsi and include more in my repertoire. On the last morning, I woke up to a message from Chairman George, who was the host of one of the private showcase rooms. He told me that one of the volunteers told him about an Iranian singer at the conference, and he was wondering if I’d be willing to sing a song with him that night, on the final eve of the conference. It was Mikham Beram Kooh (I want to go to the mountain). I didn’t know the song. I messaged my mom to ask her about the song and she immediately started singing it over the phone. She asked me who this man was. I had no idea. I agreed to meet George that evening in the conference hotel lobby. He was from Ottawa. I asked him if he spoke farsi. He told me no. He is of Greek origins, and adores folk songs from around the world and sings them. So that’s the story of how a Greek man from Ottawa taught me a folk song in my mother tongue. And today, the mountain in this song is Damavand. Just outside of Tehran. I hope that it was a sunny day there today. There is something magical and universal about music that unites us. It’s a reminder that there is a frequency that resonates with us all. It’s a universal language, it’s our connection with one another. We need to turn to music during these dark times. And we need to turn to one another. We’re either together, Or we’re doomed. #iranian_folk #folkmusic #folcloreiran #mikhamberamkooh #shekareahoo #folksong #farsimusic #farsi #farsichannel