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JANUARY 2014
January 2014
HAPPY NEW YEAR
2014
From HarmoNYom's Team
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WEDNESDAY JANUARY 1 @ 10:30 AMAnanda Ashram presents a Sitar Concert for the New Year!
Acharya Roop VermaAqeel Bhatti on TablaAuspicious morning ragas to initiate the New Year -- Ananda Ashram's 50th Anniversary Year!
Preceded by Meditation Program with Fire Ceremony for World Peace.
Acharya Roop Verma is an internationally respected sitarist, composer and teacher of Indian classical and sacred music, meditation and Nada Yoga philosophy. He was formally trained in the oral tradition under highly revered teachers of our time: maestros Ali Akbar Khan and Ravi Shankar, Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati and Swami Shyam of the Himalayas. Roop Verma has performed and taught widely in Europe, North and South America, India and Northern Africa and conducts Nada Yoga intensive retreats internationally. As director of the East-West School of Music, he regularly teaches and performs at Ananda Ashram. Visit his website for more information.
Ananda AshramYoga Society of New York, Inc.
13 Sapphire Road
Monroe NY 10950 - Phone: 845.782.5575http://anandaashram.org/SitarConcertNewYear-2014
Admission $15 / members $12; included in overnight guest rate
SATURDAY JANUARY 4 @ 7:30 PMChhandayan Center for Indian Music presents:
Gurubhai Jugalbandi of Bansuri Flute:Krishna Bhandari (senior disciple of Pt Raghunath Seth) & Steve Gorn
Dibyarka Chatterjee - TablaA leading flautist of the country, Krishna Bhandari is a Senior Disciple of flute maestro and music composer Pt. Raghunath Seth, disciple of the legendary and unmatched flute maestro Pt. Pannalal Ghosh. Bhandari's style reflects a unique blend of fluency and melody with systematic "Badhat" and aesthetic approach giving due weight to both "Gayaki" and "Gatkari". Use of key in his flute, invented by his guru Pt. Raghunath Seth unfolds 'Ragas' beautifully in Mandra Saptak.
Steve Gorn is featured on the 2011 Grammy winning recording, “Miho – Journey to the Mountain, “with Dhruba Ghosh, and The Paul Winter Consort, and the Academy Award winning Documentary film, “Born into Brothels.”. His gurus are the bansuri masters, Sri Gour Goswami, and Sri Deba Prasad Banerjee of Kolkata, and Pandit Raghunath Seth. His bansuri style is based in the ‘gayaki ang’ of the legendary Pannalal Ghosh, and his music has been described as a transformative experience that synchronizes mind and body and realigns the molecular cell structure.
Dibyarka Chatterjee is a Tabla player from the Farrukhabad Gharnana, and the son and disciple of Pandit Samir Chatterjee. At the age of five he was initiated by his father into the ancient system of ‘guru-shishya-parampara’ He has performed in India and the west with many leading artists, including Pandit Jasraj, Ustad Sujaat Khan, Pandita Lakshmi Shankar, and Pt Ramesh Misra.
Chhandayan Center for Indian Music
4 West 43 New York City Room 618
www.tabla.orgMONDAY JANUARY 13 @ 8:15PM & 9:15PM
Kiran Ahluwalia in NYC - Bringing her group to Cornelia St Cafe!
Featuring:
Kiran Ahluwalia, voice; Rez Abbasi , guitar; Will Holshouser, accordion; Mamadou Ba , bass; Sameer Gupta , tabla
At the center of Kiran Ahluwalia’s music is love in all its shades - yearning romantic love and sufi mysticism. She is a modern exponent of the great vocal traditions of India and Pakistan which she honors intensely yet also departs from in assertive, personal ways. Her original compositions and arrangements embody the spiritual essence of ghazal, a form of poetry about the unattainable. Accompanied by traditional Indian percussion and contemporary Western instruments, Ahluwalia’s boundary-blurring songs invite us to explore the human condition, transcending the self by losing ourselves in love.
Born in India, raised in Canada – Ahluwalia's latest CD, Aam Zameen: Common Ground was recently awarded Kiran’s second Canadian Grammy - the prestigious JUNO Award. Her discography, now five albums deep is one of global music’s most interesting furrows. Her ease of manner on stage makes her a unique and inspiring performer who’s legion of fans continues to grow with every captivating performance.
Her music has garnered glowing praise from critics around the world. “Ahluwalia is busy honing a transnational sound as fresh as tomorrow” (Seattle Times) and “Her’s is “a voice destined to enchant more than one generation” (fROOTS).
http://www.KiranMusic.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4VqYHXwX5Y
The Cornelia Street Café,29 Cornelia Street, New York, NY 10014
Phone: 212-989-9319
$15 cover plus $10 minimum
Tik here: http://corneliastreetcafe.com/downstairs/performances.aspSUNDAY JANUARY 19 @ 11:00 AM
Shanti Mandir cordially welcomes you to:- 9:00 A.M. – Guru Gita
- 10:00 A.M. – Kirtan, Meditation
- 11:00 A.M. - Indian Music PerformanceIndian Classical Concert by Suryaksha Deshpande
- 1:00 P.M. – A vegetarian meal follows and everyone is welcome to participate
Shanti Mandir51 Muktananda Marg, Walden, NY 12586SUNDAY JANUARY 19 to TUESDAY JANUARY 21
CARNATIC SUNDAYS is proud to host the 5th Indian Music Festival at Cornelia Street Cafe! This year's festival is going to be a real doozy, packed with some of NYC"s most prominent Indian Classical and Jazz musicians.
Sunday | January 19, sets at 9 & 10 - Doors at 8:30. RAJAS
Rajas is a nascent project that brings together contemporary musicians in the Indian classical idiom to experiment and explore new directions for composition and improvisation, stemming from this deep-rooted tradition. The ensemble is led by mrudangam artist and composer Rajna Swaminathan, who has been engaging intensively with New York's experimental jazz and creative music scene and incorporating South Indian rhythmic concepts in cross-cultural contexts.
Rajna Swaminathan, mrudangam/compositions
Anjna Swaminathan, violin
Miles Okazaki, guitar
Guy Mintus, piano
Monday | January 20, sets at 9 & 10 - Doors at 8:30. NAMASKAR by Sameer Gupta.
NAMASKAR is a fresh and innovative approach towards jazz, Indian and soul music, embodying the integrative spirit of our time. The ensemble combines well known compositions from the Indian Golden Era of Bollywood with North and South India ragas, and modern American jazz in all its diversity, to craft an irresistibly beautiful artistic statement. Percussionist Sameer Gupta, known as one of the few percussionists representing the traditions of American jazz on drumset, and Indian Classical music on tabla, leads a world-class ensemble.
Sameer Gupta, drums
Marc Cary, piano
Rashaan Carter, bass
Arun Ramamurthy, violin
Eric Fraser, bansuri
Marika Hughes, cello
Tuesday | January 21, sets at 9 & 10 - Doors at 8:30. FALUPOSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS!She is internationally recognized for her rare ability to seamlessly blend a signature modern inventive style with a formidable Indian classically-shaped vocal talent.
In her early years in Bombay, singer Falu (aka Falguni Shah) was trained rigorously in the Jaipur musical tradition and in the Benares style of Thumrie, honing her talent for up to 16 hours a day. She later continued studying under the late sarangi/vocal master Ustad Sultan Khan, and continues to study with the legendary Smt. Kishori Amonkar (Jaipur style).Falu’s subsequent career in the States had led to a series of brilliant and high profile collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Wyclef jean, Philip Glass, Ricky Martin, Blues Traveler and A. R. Rahman amongst others. She was appointed Carnegie Hall’s ambassador of Indian Music in 2006, where her shows at Zankel Hall have been consistently sold out (as part of the Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute series).One of Falu’s most astonishing recent performances occurred alongside A.R. Rahman for President Obama and the First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House for their First State dinner in Nov 2009.
Falu Shah, vocals
Gaurav Shah, vocals & harmonium
Daniel Levy, guitar & fretless bass
Deep Singh, tabla
CORNELIA STREET CAFE
29 Cornelia Street (btwn Bleeker & W4th)
New York, NY 10014
CALL 212.989.9319 for reservations!FRIDAY JANUARY 24 @ 7:30 PM
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29 @ 3:30 PM
A Concert Celebrating Lee's Initiation with Pandit Pran Nath on Jan 27, 1995LIVE Internet & Cable TV Raga Concert... Raga Bhupali
Lee Torchia: Voice and Tambura
Narendra Budhakar: TablaLIVE - World-Wide WEB and Manhattan Cable TV Broadcast
INDIAN RAGA CONCERT
Watch Live: http://www.mnn.org/live/3-spirit-channelor
Watch Live on MNN Cable TV (TWC: 1997, RCN: 84, FIOS: 35)WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29 @ 6:00 PM
Spiral Concert at Rubin Museum of ArtDhrubesh Regmi - Sitar
Steve Gorn - Banuri Flute
Hallie Lakshmi – Tanpura
Dhrubesh Chandra Regmi is a rare exponent of sitarists belonging to the illustrious musical family (fourth generation) of Nepal. He honed his skills as a sitar player under the tutelage of his father Prof. Satish C. Regmi as well as studyimg under renowned personalities from India including legendary maestro Pt. Uma Shankar Mishra. Dhrubesh completed his PhD from Delhi Unversity and became the first musician to hold a doctorate in music in Nepal. He is now an Associate Professor at Tribhuvan University and the recipient of various prestigious awards. Dhrubesh is one of the founding members of the popular Classical and Nepali folk musical group Sukarma. He has travelled extensively throughout many parts of the world and is currently in the U.S. as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar affiliated with The Graduate Center, City University of New York.Steve Gorn, whose flute is said to ‘re-align the cells,’ is featured on the 2011 Grammy winning recording, “Miho – Journey to the Mountain,” with the Paul Winter Consort, as well as the Academy Award winning Documentary film, "Born into Brothels," He has performed Indian Classical Music on the bansuri bamboo flute in concerts and festivals throughout the world. Well known to audiences in India and the west, he is one of the few westerners recognized to have captured the subtlety and beauty of Indian music. His CD, “Luminous Ragas”, is a landmark recording of music for yoga. Recent recordings include Rasika, with tabla by Samir Chatterjee, and Illuminations, with Nepali flutist, Manose.
Rubin Museum of Art
150 W. 17th Street (between 6th & 7th Avenues)
New York, NY 10014
http://www.rmanyc.org/events/load/2478Free
THURSDAY JANUARY 30 @ 8:00 Pm
Brooklyn Raga Massive presents Om Gam Trio:Michael Gam (Upright/Electric Bass), Kane Mathis (Kora, Oud) and Jashon Singh Bhamra (Tabla), performing original music as Om Gam Trio!
Followed by the Raga Jam Session at 9:30pm
Tea Lounge, Park Slope
837 Union St
Brooklyn, New York
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