WKCR FM - Ragas Live Festival 2012

THURSDAY JUNE 21

From Midnight to Midnight

WKCR-FM in Collaboration with HarmoNYom and Brooklyn Raga Massive
Proudly Presents:

Ragas Live Festival " 24 hours of live Indian Classical Music with 24 musicians"!

On Thursday, June 21st WKCR-FM will feature a historic first in radio broadcast: a live raga marathon
with 24 musicians performing in 24 hours! Collaborating with curators Brooklyn Raga Massive and
HarmoNYom, two pillars in the Indian classical Music community, WKCR will broadcast these live
performances throughout New York City at 89.9 FM-NY and internationally at wkcr.org. The festival will
start on Wednesday, June 20th at midnight and end on Thursday June 21st at midnight. Raga, which literally means "to color the mind," are musical modes in Indian Classical Music that correspond with specific times of the day or the night. All Ragas in the festival will correspond to the time of their performance.

Below is the schedule of the festival:
12am Neel Murgai - Sitar / 1am Sameer Gupta and Ehren Hanson - Tabla Duo / 2am Achyut Joshi Vocal/ 3am Iklhaq Hussain - Sitar / 4am - Anjana Roy - Sitar / 5am Akshay Anantapadmanabhan - Mridangam & Arniban Roy Chowdhuri - Tabla/ 6am Indrajit Roy Chowdhury - Sitar / 7am Daisy Paradis - Sitar / 8am Samarth Nagarkar - Vocal/ 9am Eric Fraser - Flute / 10am Falu Shah - Vocal / 11am Shanti Shivani - Vocal/
12pm Steve Gorn - Flute / 1pm Karavika - Violin & Cello / 2pm Snehasish Mozumder - Mandolin/ 3pm Camila Celin - Sarod / 4pm Kedar Naphade - Harmonium / 5pm Vivek Rudrapatna - Carnatic Violin/
6pm Jay Gandhi - Flute / 7pm Andrew Mendelson - Sitar / 8pm Arun Ramamurthy - Carnatic Violin/
9pm Ashvin Bhogendra - Carnatic Vocal / 10pm Oded Tzur - Saxophone / 11pm Kiran Ahluwalia - Vocal
On Tabla & Harmonium accompaniment:
Nitin Mitta, Sameer Gupta, Ehren Hanson, Naren Budhakar, Dan Weiss, Stephen Celluci,

Sanjay Ranjan Pal, Anirban Roy Chowdhury, Shouri Lahiri, Feroze Khan,  Deep Singh and Andrew Shantz
On Mridingam and Pakhawajaccompaniment:
Akshay Anantapadmanabhan and Peter Fagiola

The festival curators, HarmoNYom and Brooklyn Raga Massive are non-profit organizations that promote and support Indian Classical Music in New York City. They are platforms of education and interaction between musicians and fans of Indian Classical Music.

HarmoNYom: harmonyom.org

Brooklyn Raga Massive: brooklynragamassive.wordpress.com

WKCR has been featuring Indian Classical Music for over two decades, currently broadcasting two shows every Sunday: Morning Ragas (6 to 8 am) and Raag Aur Tal (7 to 9 pm). In 2006, host David Ellenbogen started producing shows with live in-studio performances of Indian Classical Music and WKCR subsequently created the monthly "Ragas Live" show. "Ragas Live" broadcasts in-studio and live performances recorded by WKCR and has featured a who's who of the great maestros of this sublime music. It is broadcast the first Sunday of the Month from 7-9pm and has been hosted by Ashok Ilankovan, David Ellenbogen and, currently, Sriharsha Aradhya and Lakshmi Gopal.

Ragas Live Festival marks the revival of the Festival of South Asian Music that of previous years in Augusts on WKCR-FM, and expects to become an annual gathering of musicians and fans of this sublime music. The festival will be recorded and featured on both the WKCR online archives on wkcr.org and on podcast site at www.nycradiolive.org.

WKCR is a non-commercial, student-run station affiliated with Columbia University.

 
Direct press inquiries to:
Executive producers Ahmet Ali Arslan, ial@wkcr.org

or David Ellenbogen, davidellenbogen@yahoo.com
Artistic directors Veronique Lerebours, veronique@harmonyom.org for HarmoNYom;

Sameer Gupta, tablajazz@gmail.com for Brooklyn Raga Massive and Arun Ramamurthy.

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Make Music NY Festival...

Destination India!

WKCR 89.9 FM, HarmoNYom and Brooklyn Raga Massive

are proud community partners of the

Make Music New York

"World Tour Festival"

which is a free festival that takes place all around the city. It is a part of the musical celebration that is taking place with over 1000 concerts all over New York City on July 21st and all over the world.

More information about MMNY - World Tour

http://makemusicny.org/schedule/#!/feature/world-tour

Make Music New York is a live, free musical celebration across the city that takes place each June 21, the longest day of the year. On that day, hundreds of public spaces throughout the five boroughs become impromptu stages for over 1,000 free concerts.

http://makemusicny.org/

Overview 2012:

A complete, 18-hour vibraphone performance of Erik Satie’s Vexations on Wall Street; a 24-hour Indian Raga marathon at WKCR; a 24-hour-long interactive electronic piece under the Manhattan Bridge by British artist Nick Franglen.

http://makemusicny.org/about/overview/

The Ragas Live Festival

organized by

WKCR- 89.9 FM in Collaboration with

HarmoNYom

and Brooklyn Raga Massive

during the World Music Day Festival on June 21 2012 has ended!

 Thank you to all the musicians

for their incredible performances;

Thank you to WKCR's Team

for their initiative and great organization;

 Thank you to

Brooklyn Raga Massive,

For their partnership,

Make Music NY

and the New York community for their support...

And for all the joy that we shared all together through this unique event!

We are looking forward to the next Festival in 2013!

Stay Tune!

Ragas Live Festival is rocking....