FRIDAY MAY 2 @ 8:00 PM

Rageshree Music Institute Proudly Presents An Evening Of Indian Classical Music

Featuring:

Pandit Kinnar Seen / Sitar 

Parminder Payal Seen / Vocal

Naren Budhkar / Tabla

Kinaar Kumar Seen is the eldest son of the well-known musical authority Ustad Lachhman Singh Seen of the Punjab Gharana. He started learning music from his father at an early age in the traditional style of Punjab Gharana. Kinaar Seen gave his first solo performance at the age of fourteen. Since then he has been performing in major music festivals all over the world including the famous Harvallabh Sangeet Sammelan in India in 1979 and 1980. He has had numerous performances all over the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa and the West Indies.

Parminder Payal Seen's initial training began with the steerage from Srimati Harsh Anand. Later she began schooling under the austere guidance of Guruji Satish Chander of Sham Churasi Gharana in the aesthetic and traditional training of Indian classical music. Today Payalji resides in the United States where she perseveres in furthering her love and dedication to music. She continues to perform countless times both nationally and internationally.

Naren Budhakar was born in Pune, the cultural capital of western India to a musical family. His father, as a violinist, provided Naren his earliest exposure to Indian classical music. His cousin, Shashikant Purandare, was a lifelong student of the Delhi style of percussion. Naren took his initial lessons with him. Since coming to America Naren has pursued his musical career with unrelenting dedication. He further studied with Samir Chatterji , the renowned tabla maestro from Kolkata and Shabbir Nissar, the tabla wizard from Hyderabad and the son of legendary Ustad Shaikh Dawood.

New York Insight Meditation Center

 28 West 27th Street, 10th Floor. (bet. Bway & 6th Ave.) New York City

Tickets: Donation $30:00 at the door (Cash) - $ 25.00 for Advanced, Members of RMI , Student ID & Senior Citizen. For advance purchase: (718) 672-3211, www.RageshreeMusicInst.Org

Advance Tickets also available on www.Pragathi.com & www.Sulekha.com

FRIDAY MAY 2 @ 9:00 PM and 10:30 PM (2 Sets)

MULTIPLICITY by Joel Harrison/Guitar and Anupam Shobhakar/Sarod

CD Releale

Featuring:

Joel Harrison, guitar; 

Anupam Shobhakar, sarod; 

Anindo Chatterjee, tabla; 

Jacob Sacks, piano; 

Hans Glawischnig, bass; 

Dan Weiss, drums; 

Samarth Nagarkar, voice

With Leave The Door Open (Whirlwind Recordings), guitarist Joel Harrison teams up with sarod player Anupam Shobhakar and the product is a wholly idiosyncratic, unparalleled synthesis of Indian and American music and more particularly, the lives and interests of these two musicians.

Harrison and Shobhakar met as a result of a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship when Harrison set out to compose a piece for classical percussion, jazz quintet, and sarod. Harrison says that he and Shobhakar “spent a lot of time together figuring out how our different backgrounds could blend and cohere." http://www.joelharrison.com

Cornelia Street Cafe

29 Cornelia Street (Bleecker Street), NYC

For reservation call: 212-989-9319

Tickets: $15 Cover plus $10 minimum (food/drink included)

SUNDAY MAY 4 @ 2:00 PM

Carnatic Violin Duet in NYC!
Featuring Lalgudi GJR Krishnan and Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi.

Accompanied by:
Trichy Sankaran
Tirupanithura Radhakrishnan

This concert is brought by Vidya Daanam a not for profit organization, supporting underprivileged children for education.

Co-Promoted by HarmoNYom (www.HarmoNYom.org)

The American-Scandinavian Foundation
Scandinavian House
58 Park Avenue, NYC 10016

Tickets: $25 - $40 - $5 Student discount available
Online at: www.sulekha.com or www.vidyadaanam.org

WEDNESDAYS, MAY 7 - 14 - 21 AND 28 @ 8:00 PM

Brooklyn Raga Massive presents:

Art Cafe

884- 886 Pacific Street (At Underhill Avenue)
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, NY 11238 - gureje.com/village-gureje/‎

$5 - $10 Suggested donation

www.brooklynragamassive.com

FRIDAY MAY 9 @ 7:30 PM

SangeetSabha is presenting the sublime Dhrupad music!

The Gundecha Brothers:
Pandits Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha on vocals,
and Pandit Akhilesh Gundecha on Pakhawaj.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maasg5Ws70w (Preview)
Raag Jog (first half) hosted by SangeetSabha in 2011.

Featuring a very special guest, Pandit Manik Munde on the Pakhawaj, who will join the artists for the show.

Helen Mills Theater (Doors Open 7pm)
137 West 26th Street (6/7 Ave), New York, NY 10001
Tickets: $50/$30/$20  - Online: http://gundechanyc.eventbrite.com/

SATURDAY MAY 10 @ 7:00 PM

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and Raga Music Circle present:  

Doctor Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande (Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana)

Accompanied by:
Sanjay Deshpande, Tabla
Tanmay Deochake, Harmonium

Ashwini Bhide Deshpande is one of the finest female vocalists in India today. Her repertoire includes various genres of classical music, including khayal, thumri, bhajans, andabhangs, making her versatile, soulful performances an outstanding example of the syncretic formation of North Indian or Hindustani music, and an ideal case study of which to ask serious questions relating to religion, music, and public life in early modern, colonial, and contemporary India.

www.ashwinibhide.in/‎

SATURDAY MAY 10 @ from 8:00 PM

Until SUNDAY MAY 11 @ 5:30 AM

Chhandayan 15th All-Night Concert of Indian Classical Music!

Artists:

- Arpan: instrumental ensemble
Kedar Naphade harmonium
Arun Ramamurthy - violin

Jay Gandhi - Bansuri
Dibyarka Chatterjee - tabla

- Sanjoy Banerjee - vocal

- Samir Chatterjee - tabla solo
- Pt. Rajan and Sajan Mishra - vocal
- Ud. Shahid Parvez - sitar

Accompanists:

Pt. Ramesh Misra, Samir Chatterjee, Pt. Ashis Sengupta, Vyasmurti Katti, Amod Dandavate

New York Society of Ethical Culture

2 West 64 Street (Central Park West), New York, NY 10023

Tickets: $250 (Patron), $110, $70, $60, $45

10% discount on all tickets for students and seniors with valid ID and group 10+

Online or at door: http://www.chhandayan.com/concerts/at-ccim-in-nyc/?id=91&eid=19

Buy ticket to watch 15th ALL-NIGHT CONCERT, May 10th 2014

LIVE online http://viewer.dacast.com/broadcaster/22452/c/43640

Live streaming tickets are $10 for the entire concert. 

SATURDAY MAY 10 @ 8:00 PM

Contemporaneous and Arts at the Park present "Seeing Is Believing".

An unbelievable program of two new works by Michael Harrison - Piano and music by Nico Mulhly and Shawn Jaeger.

Drawing on his expertise in "just intonation", Indian classical ragas and rythmic cycles, Michael Harrison's music evokes what the New York Times calls, "a new harmonic world... and vibrant sound". With Tessellations and Orchestral Modules, written specifically for Contemporaneous, Harrison brings to life a new chapter in his explorations into these exciting worlds.

Featuring Guests:

Nitin Mitta - Tabla

Aaron Shragge - Tanpura

Tim Pasrsons - Countertenor

Park Avenue Christian Church

1010 Park Avenue (at 85th Street) | Upper East Side, Manhattan

$20 General Admission | $15 Students/Seniors | Purchase tickets

SUNDAY MAY 18 @ 4:00 PM

WEDNESDAYS, MAY 21 @ 8:00 PM

Brooklyn Raga Massive presents:

Art Cafe

884- 886 Pacific Street (At Underhill Avenue)
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, NY 11238 - gureje.com/village-gureje/‎

$5 - $10 Suggested donation

www.brooklynragamassive.com

SATURDAY MAY 24, 7PM

Anirban Dasgupta - Sarod and Suryaksha Deshpande - Tabla

Shanti Mandir Temple
Muktananda Marg
Walden, NY 12586

SATURDAY MAY 31 @ 7:30 PM

SAMAA presents a Jugalbandi (duet), a musical dialogue between Hindustani and Carnatic styles of Indian music by iconic musicians from India for their first performance together in NYC!

Shubha Mudgal and Bombay Jayashri

Co-promoted by HarmoNYom

Accompanied by:

Aneesh Pradhan - Tabla

Sudhir Nayak - Harmonium

J. Vaidyanathan - Mridangam

Embar Kannan - Violin

Venue: The Town Hall

123 West 43 Street (6/7 Ave), New York, NY

Tickets: $100, $75, $50, $40, $25

Online purchase: http://www.thetownhall.org

Proceeds from ticket sales to charity for Sanitation & Drinking water in India

Info & Tickets: VIP, $100, $75, $50 

http://www.samaa.us - 917-409-SAMA/ info@samaa.us

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Shubha Mudgal, Padmashri awarded, world famous Hindustani vocalist, is a recipient of Special achievement award at Chicago International Film festival.

A versatile artist, her music ranges from classical, khayal, thumri, dadra to pop.

Her repertoire ranges from mystic and sufi poetry which includes rarely heard texts of Vaishnava pushti-marg poets, Nirguna poets like Kabir, Meera, Tulsi, Amir Khusru, Namdev, Sanskrit chants.

Few of her famous songs are “ab ke sawan”, “dholna” and from movies like Chandni bar, hazaaron Khwaishein aisi, Satta, chunari mein daag, Kabul express.

Bombay Jayashri, Oscar nominated for the haunting “Pi’s Lullaby” in the movie 

Life of Pi, is among the world-renowned new generation musicians from India. Rooted strongly in traditional Carnatic music, her penchant for creativity has helped her explore new genres of world music and bring Carnatic music closer to the western world.

Jayashri’s fame is beyond classical Carnatic boundaries.  Her work transcends geographic and cultural boundaries as she collaborates with musicians of other genres, dancers and theatre artists, across the globe. Besides, she has distinct fan following for her numerous film songs like “zara zara mehaktha hai” “khulke muskurale”, “kaiyil veenai”, “partha mudhal” in diverse Indian languages.

SATURDAY MAY 31 @ 8PM

Ghulam Ali Live in Concert in NY!

Hindu Auditorium,

143-09 Holly Ave, Flushing, NY 11355
Tickets: $35 to $150
Online: http://events.sulekha.com/ghulam-ali-live-in-concert_event-in_flushing-ny_293250