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What is Burnt Sienna?

Did you ever own Crayola's 64 pack of crayons, well it's one of the colors in there.

Also, it's the name of a musical group consisting of Adam Afridi, Ali Awan, and Ahmed Fahmy. All of whom are attending or have once attended the University of Northern Iowa.

The type of music we play can be called Indo-Arabic Jazz. Adam Afridi plays the guitar, Ali Awan plays the guitar (and when he feels especially inspired, the tenor saxophone, and/or kazoo), Ahmad Fahmy plays the Egyptian drum.

We started out performing in friends' homes, for birthday parties, etc, but our first real performance was the infamous food fair last year at UNI. After that we regularly play in a coffee house called the Questryst which is located in the basement of the Wesley Foundation, on College Hill, in Cedar Falls (plug, plug!). We also played once at Sweet Basil, in Cedar Falls, before it closed down. Then we played a few times in its new incarnation, Cup Of Joe's, and hope they would be kind enough to let us play again, and again, and again.....;)

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Gig Info

• Current Gig Info!!!!!

• 8:30pm Saturday, August 29, 1998 �����Cup of Joe's

  • Ali's Solo gig at Cup of Joe's on Main St. in downtown Cedar Falls at 8:30pm plan on performing various cover songs by The Church, The Beatles, and Grant Lee Buffalo along with some originals.

Photo Gallery

Our Food-Fair performance
Group picture (okay from left to right, Ali Awan, non-group member Jahangir Rana, Ahmed Fahmy, Adam Afridi).