Enjoy an evening of traditional Turkish and Egyptian melodies with instrumentalist Nikolai Ruskin. Nikolai will perform solo on the Oud (an Egyptian lute), and the Nay (a Turkish cane flute). Nikolai has been performing and teaching Middle Eastern music since 1998, and curretly performs with the bands SOUK, Middle Eastern Grooves and Gadje (original gypsy rock) in Ithaca, NY.