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Year of the Nightingale & Gate of Heaven, two albums of songs based on the Bahá’í Sacred Writings, were released in 2017 and 2019, in honour of the Bahá’í Community’s celebration of the Bicentenary of the Birth of Bahá’u’lláh, and the Bicentenary of the Birth of the Báb, respectively.
These two albums were funded by an international community of over 500 supporters who contributed the funds required to make the albums through a crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter (lukeslottkickstarter.com)
To everyone who supported this album,
through your contributions on Kickstarter and in unnumbered other ways,
Thank You
Waseem Abbas
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Omid & Nooshfar Afnan
Sharim Afnan
Leila Aghdassi
Fareed Ahmed
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Erfawn Akhtar-Khavari
Vafa Akhtar-Khavari
Bettina Al-Bakhit
Aref Amanat
Sarvenaz Amanat
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Navid Anayati
Afsaneh Angelina Rafii
Lahia Annis-Christy
Pooneh Ardakani
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May Armstrong
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Linda Assaf
Samir Azimi
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Sina Bahrami
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Anisa Barraquias
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Shirin Bashir
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Brittany Betts
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Kit Bigelow
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Jalaleh Binley
Paul Birchard
Adib & Berglind Birkland
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Paul Blair
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Mina Bogan
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Tamana Bostan
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Vahid Brignoni
Jonathan Broekhuizen
Angie Bullock
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Alan Campbell
Lynne Cartwright
Caz Cave
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Naree Chan
Yunsun Chung-Shin
Iko Congo
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Susan Corzilius
Mark Costine
Daniel Crawford
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Eilis Davey
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Farah Imani
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Julie Iraninejad
Paridokht Ishani Sahba
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Farid Jaberi, Executive Producer
Naghmeh Jaberi
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Danka Janurova
Pedram Javedan
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John & Sue Rafalak
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Mahsa Samimi
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