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After moving to the United States, Ray Amato, Sr. started shoeing at the racetrack in 1940. Ray Amato is a second generation farrier, or horse-shoer, as he is known in the parlance of the thoroughbred racetrack. 

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Simon Shaheen discusses the Oud and performs the Rahbani Brothers song "La Enta Habibi"  with Hanna Mirhige on darbuka and tambourine.

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Simon Shaheen and Hanna Mirhige perform Near Eastern Traditional Music at the Bay Ridge Public Library as part of the 1989 Brooklyn Folk Arts and Artists Series. 

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