The Nightingale of Iran

Bonus #12 - Family History Podcast

Danielle and Galeet were interviewed by Andrew Martin, the UK-based host of The Family Histories Podcast, a positive, conversational, fun show about family history and fa

Bonus #11 - B'nai Jeshurun - 3 sisters!

Danielle & Galeet have created a live show and they’ve taken the show on the road to several cities around the world! Performances include: A multimedia presentation te

Bonus #10 - Persian Girl Podcast

Danielle and Galeet joined Millie Efraim on Persian Girl Podcast to discuss the tapes their family recoreded starting from the 1950s that were used throughout the Nightin

Bonus #9 - Jews on Film

Danielle Dardashti, co-creator of The Nightingale of Iran, guests on podcast "Jews on Film.” Danielle is interviewed by hosts Daniel Zana and Harry Ottensoser, discussing

Bonus #8 - JBS Spotlight

Danielle and Galeet joined Abigail Pogrebin on JBS's In the Spotlight to discuss their documentary podcast series The Nightingale of Iran, in which they reveal painful se

Bonus #7 - Moment Live!

This is a conversation Danielle and Galeet had with Moment Magazine Deputy Editor, Jennifer Bardi, about their search for the truth and what they discovered about their f

Bonus #6 - New Sounds WNYC

This is an interview Galeet did with John Schaefer on New Sounds on WNYC, about her album Monajat, where she sings with samples of her late grandfather Younes Dardashti,

Bonus #5 - LA Launch - IKAR

IKAR synagogue, Los Angeles, California. Kabbalat Shabbat post-dinner discussion with Danielle and Galeet Dardashti, about The Nightingale of Iran, moderated by Jewish Te

Bonus #4 - NY Launch - Bet Am

One of the first events to celebrate the release of The Nightingale of Iran was with Danielle and Galeet's home town crowd, at Bet Am Shalom Synagogue in New York on Marc

Bonus #3 - Reclaiming Identity

Danielle and Galeet speak with Drora and Dalya on this episode of the Reclaiming Identity podcast. They discuss growing up un-Persian, discovering their family’s story, a

Bonus #2 - Can We Talk?

Danielle and Galeet were recently interviewed on Can We Talk?, the podcast of the Jewish Women’s Archive. We loved our conversation with Nahanni Rous and so we are sharin

Bonus #1 - History Daily

Thank you for listening to The Nightingale of Iran! All six episodes are out now.  For those of you who have finished listening to our series, today we are sharing somet

Episode 6 - Where I am From

When people asked “Where are you from?” Danielle was never sure if they wanted to know the places she’d lived or whether they just thought she looked foreign. She didn’t

Episode 5 - Savta’s Dream

Houri Dardashti, Danielle and Galeet’s grandmother, had long dreamed of moving to Israel from Iran. But life was improving for Jews in Iran, and her husband Younes had be

Episode 4 - Ashkenormalization

On his way from Iran to America, where he planned to study architecture in college, Danielle and Galeet’s father Farid spent the summer in Israel. While walking down a Te

Episode 3 - The Tehran Teen Idol

Danielle and Galeet’s father, Farid Dardashti, was born in Tehran in 1942, the oldest of Houri and Younes Dardashti’s five children, all of whom had natural musical talen

Episode 2 - Singing in the Dark

Danielle and Galeet's grandfather Younes Dardashti grew up an orphan in Tehran's Jewish ghetto. He was gifted with a gorgeous voice, but had a difficult childhood. He liv

Episode 1 - The Time Machine

Sisters Danielle and Galeet Dardashti grew up in a Jewish American family band: The Dardashti Family. They sang international folk music in 12 languages – English, Hebrew

Trailer - The Nightingale of Iran

Their grandfather was a famous singer known as The Nightingale of Iran. Their father was a Tehran teen idol. It’s always been a mystery to our host Danielle Dardashti (st