{"id":248174,"date":"2026-07-21T02:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248174\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T02:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:21:11","slug":"saint-levant-brings-afandi-world-tour-to-phillys-tla-this-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248174\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Levant brings &#8216;AFANDI World Tour&#8217; to Philly&#8217;s TLA this September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-end=\"744\" data-start=\"567\">Saint Levant, the Palestinian singer-songwriter who has built an international following with multilingual pop music, will bring his &#8220;AFANDI World Tour&#8221; to Philly this fall.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"947\" data-start=\"746\">The artist will perform at the Theatre of Living Arts on South Street on Sunday, Sept. 27. The Philadelphia stop is one of more than 40 dates scheduled across North America, Europe and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1242\" data-start=\"949\">Born Marwan Abdelhamid, Saint Levant first gained international attention with his 2022 single &#8220;Very Few Friends.&#8221; His music blends Arabic, English and French with pop, hip-hop, R&amp;B and Middle Eastern influences.\u00a0Many of his songs explore themes of love, identity and his Palestinian heritage.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1522\" data-start=\"1244\">The tour centers on Layali Al Afandi, a stage show inspired by Beirut&#8217;s nightlife in the 1990s. It mixes live music with storytelling and theatrical production to recreate the look and feel of that era<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1642\" data-start=\"1524\">Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Friday, July 24, following presales that begin Tuesday, July 21.<\/p>\n<p><a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/saintlevant.com\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saint Levant&#8217;s &#8220;AFANDI World Tour&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1642\" data-start=\"1524\">Sunday, Sept. 27<br \/>Theatre of Living Arts<br \/>334 South St. <br \/>Philadelphia, PA 19147<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1642\" data-start=\"1524\">This content was generated by PhillyVoice Media Events, not by the newsroom staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saint Levant, the Palestinian singer-songwriter who has built an international following with multilingual pop music, will bring his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20157,7865,13517,69,71,70,20347],"class_list":["post-248174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-concerts","tag-music","tag-performances","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-theatre-of-living-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}