SATURDAY MAY 1 @ 12 PM to 8PM

Natraj Folk Arts Festival with Music, Dance and Poetry.

Music program at 12:00 PM.

Painter Annupama Annam will be painting live, promotional portraits for attendees at the Natraj Folk Arts Festival. The event is sponsored by The India Center. The sittings are on a first come basis and the portraits will be matted and ready to frame. There will be a nominal fee for the portrait.

Baruch College Performing Arts Center

55 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY

Ticket: $20 or $10 in advance.

www.theatermania.com or 866-811-4111

SATURDAY MAY 1 @ 4:30 PM

“Composers Day”

Featuring presentation by teachers.

Followed by Carnatic Vocal concert:

Shyamala Ramakrishna (Vocal),

Radhika Mani (Violin)

Naveen Basavanhally (Mridangam)

The Hindu Temple

Bowne Street, Flushing,

Queens, NY

Chhandayan Center for Indian Music presents a Bansuri duet concert, with

Steve Gorn-bansuri flute
Eric Fraser-bansuri flute

Naren Budhakar-tabla

Chhandayan Center for Indian Music
4 west 43rd St. #618 (6th floor), New York. NY
www.tabla.org

Tickets:  $20, $16 (students and seniors with valid ID)
http://tabla.org/concerts/?id=91&eid=24

SATURDAY MAY 1 @ 7:30 PM

Michael Braudy is an experienced violinist in Western,  North Indian and Celtic music.  A versatile improviser, he regularly collaborates with poets, storytellers, dancers, theatre and mime.  Michael studied Western violin with Raphael Bronstein and Dorothy Delay, and Indian violin with Acharya Roop Verma and Pandit V.G. Jog.  From a deep commitment to music for meditation and health, he gives performances and workshops in the US and abroad.  In India he has played in Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai and Auroville, and the Jaipur International Festival in Rajasthan.  His recordings include Celtic Afternoon Concert, and a series of ragas for health: Sumanas, Vriddhi and Awakening Peace, and are available on www.michaelbraudy.com

Accompanied on Tabla by Dibyarka Chatterjee.

Atmananda Yoga Center
324 Lafayette Street, Suite 7 (near Houston St)

New York, NY 10012

(212) 625-1511

Tickets: $15

World Music Institute present the
extraordinary sitarist Shujaat Husain Khan, son and disciple of the late Ustad Vilayat Khan, is one of the leading Indian classical musicians of his generation. Seventh in an unbroken line in a family that has produced many musical masters, he performs in the gayaki ang style, which is imitative of the subtleties of the human voice. He has been noted for his solo appearances of Indian music, as well as for his tours and recordings with the Grammy-nominated Indo-Persian Ghazal Ensemble. 

He is accompanied by the remarkable tabla player Abhiman Kaushal.

Peter Norton Symphony Space

2537 Broadway at 95th Street ,
New York , NY 10025

http://worldmusicinstitute.org/ or Phone : 212-545-7536

Tickets :$30; students with college ID $18

Box office (212) 864-5400

SATURDAY MAY 1 @ 9:00 PM

Master Mandolinist Snehasish Mozumder & SOM. 

Classical and jazz fusion's Snehasish Mozumder's double-neck mandolin is at the center of a band that swings it North Indian style.

SOM features:
Snehasish  Mozumder -mandolin

Nick Gianni -woodwinds,
Vin Scialla -drums, percussion
Jason Hogue -bass,  Bopa -percussion,
& guest: Jason Lindner -piano, keys

Snehasish Mozumder is among those few established musicians in India who has mastered the art of playing Mandolin, and has blended it perfectly into the style of Hindustani Indian Classical Music. Recently, Snehasish was invited by Pandit Ravi Shankar to perform for the George Harrison Memorial Concert held in ROYAL ALBERT HALL in London.
Som is finishing their new album and will be released this year. Full length album avail this Summer@ itunes.

www.myspace.com/somintrance
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=x8-pHs8BhVc

Tea Lounge

Brooklyn, NY liftoffrecords@gmail.com

Master class followed by short private concert by Sarod Maestro Pt.Tejendra Narayan Majumdar.

One of the best-known Sarod players of the present generation, Pandit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar has long achieved that order of excellence and popular acceptability which ensure one's place in posterity. Early initiation into music by his grandfather, the Late Bibhuti Ranjan Majumdar, and later his father, the Late Ranjan Majumdar, nurtured Tejendra's considerable talent. Vocal and rhythm training under the Late Pandit Amaresh Chowdhury and Sri Anil Palit further ensured a holistic musical development. Tejendra was then accepted by the Late Ustad Bahadur Khan as his disciple.

Admission for the day: $75 (to perform) $15 (to observe)

For more details and reservation contact

Ehren Hanson: 718 916- 3382

FRIDAYS MAY 7, 14 & 21 @ 8:00 - 9:30 PM
VOCAL CLASS

YOGA OF VOICE A WORKSHOP SERIES WITH DEEPAK KUMAR PAREEK.

For the first time at Jivamukti Yoga School, acclaimed musician and singer, Deepak Kumar Pareek will teach the fundamentals of Indian vocal music using the traditional method of "call and response". Members of the class practice singing as a group. Deepak calls his program "Yoga of Voice" referring to pranayama, the fourth limb in the eight limbs of Raja Yoga, or the control of the life force through correct breathing practices. 

Each class starts by practicing the basic seven notes (swar) of the Indian music scale "sa re ga ma pa dha ni sa". Students then begin to learn the beautiful bhajans (devotional songs) and ghazals (romantic songs often based on Kabir's poetry) that Deepak is so well known for in his performances and on his CD "Enchanted Evening". Deepak has proficiency in harmonium, guitar, tanpura and keyboard and has one of the most beautiful, soulful voices of his generation. No experience is necessary!
Speaker Bio

841 Broadway (13/14 Street)

2nd floor
New York, NY 10003

Tel: (212) 353-0214

11th Chhandayan ALL-NIGHT CONCERT 2010!                                                Chhandayan celebrates the 80th year in the life of legendary

Pt. Jasraj. 

Featuring artists:

Pandit Jasraj/vocal,

Bidushi Ashwini Bhide/vocal,

Pandit Kumar Bose/tabla solo,

Pandit Kusal Das/sitar,

Pandit Nagraj Havaldar/vocal,

Sri Abhishek Mallik/sitar + accompaniments

For full program of the event: http://www.chhandayan.com/concerts/at-ccim-in-nyc/?id=91&eid=19

New York Society for Ethical Culture

2 West 64th Street (@ CPW),

New York, NY 10023
Tickets: $40, $60, $75, $100

Asia Society presents Gundecha Brothers: Dhrupad
Music of North India.

Note: 7:00 pm pre-performance lecture.

The renowned Gundecha Brothers bring the deeply spiritual Dhrupad music of North India to a New York audience. This ancient style of classical Hindustani vocal music is a form of devotional music that traces its origin to the ancient text of Sam Veda and seeks to induce feelings of inner contemplation in the listener.
This program features the five-member ensemble which includes Umakant Gundesch (Dhrupad vocal), Ramakant Gundecha (Dhrupad vocal), Akhilesh Gundecha (Dhrupad pakhawaj), Nirant Gundecha (tanpura), and Jenifer Melmon (tanpura).

Asia Society and Museum

725 Park Avenue (at 70 Street)

New York, NY 10021

Tel: 212-288-6400

http://www.asiasociety.org/events-calendar/gundecha-brothers-dhrupad-music-north-india

Woodstock Music Circle's present Sarod Maestro Pt.Tejendra Narayan Majumdar & Ray Spiegel on Tabla.

Bliss Yoga

6 Deming St., Woodstock, NY 12498

http://www.blissyogacenter.com

www.simlahouse.com

Ticket: $25

For more details: www.shrutilaya.org

WEDNESDAY MAY 12 - JUNE 30

@ 7:00 to 8:30 PM

AAICM announcing master vocalist from North India, Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan from Kirana Gharana, in NYC. Now in New York until end of June to teach and perform. He will be teaching a group class on Wednesday nights, from 7:00pm -8:30pm.

Classes will run every Wednesday from May 12 through June 30th for 8 classes.

Faust Harrison Pianos

205 West 58th Street (Just west of 7th Avenue)

New York, NY

To schedule lessons email Simon Stack at stacula@yahoo.com.

Fees: $200 for 8 classes (Also private class $100/hour).

Renegade Sufi Sitarist Dawoud Kringel will perform
solo to celebrate East/West Living 13th Anniversary.

Sitar, guitar, bass, dilruba, raita, composer, improviser, producer, writer, poet, audio engineer, music teacher. Dawoud Kringel has found within the sitar, and the other instruments he plays (guitar, bass, dilruba, etc.) a means of instilling an experience of the spiritual and a beauty beyond what we experience with our sense. http://www.renegadesufi.com

East/West Living

78 Fifth Avenue (13/14 Street),

New York, NY www.eastwestnyc.com/

Free

FRIDAY MAY 14 @ 7:30 PM

World Music Institute present "Ancient Strings of India" by maestro Joydeep Ghosh on Surshringar!

Peter Norton Symphony Space/ Leonard Nimoy Thalia

Broadway at 95th Street,

New York, NY 10025

Kalavant presents a Tabla Workshop from 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm with Tabla Maestro Ustad Kadar khan.

Ashtanga Yoga New York

SATURDAY MAY 15 @ 7:30 PM

Chhandayan Center for Indian Music presents a Vocal Concert by Smt. Purvi Parikh.

Smt. Purvi Parikh is the daughter of the Sitar maestro Pt. Arvind Parikh. She is an established 'Khayal' singer of the Kirana Gharana. As an 'A' grade artiste of All India Radio, she has presented concerts all over India, in the USA, many countries of Europe and Japan. Purvi has been nurtured in the richest possible musical background, both her parents -- Arvind and Kishori Parikh - being eminent musicians in their own right. Purvi first became a disciple of Ustad Fayyaz Ahmed Khan and Ustad Niaz Ahmed Khan and later took guidance from Ustad Vilayat Khan and Ustad Sultan Khan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORbc29VCqLs&feature=player_embedded#!.

Sri Dibyarka Chatterjee - Tabla

Sri Madhu Vora - Harmonium

Chhandayan Center for Indian Music

4 West 43 Street # 618 (5/6 Ave)

New York, NY

SUNDAY MAY 16 @ 7:00 PM

WKCR 89.9 FM New York’s “Raag Aur Taal” program present ‘Ragas – Live’ Series with a performance featuring Indian Classical Maestros! Hosted by David Ellenbogen.

A retrospective of HarmoNYom FIRST Anniversary celebration on May 18 2010 in NYC with Concert by outstanding musicians, Vocalist Debapriya Adhikary

& Sitarist Samanwaya Sarkar and Nitin Mitta on tabla.

Broadcast: Concert recorded in Connecticut on Friday May 7 2010 by WKCR.

Email hosts of the program at raagaurtaal@gmail.com or the In All Languages Department at ial@wkcr.org or Tel: 212.854.9920

WKCR FM New York can be tuned in to on your dial at 89.9FM or over the Internet at http://www.wkcr.org.

Harrice Miller Entertainment & Daisy Paradis present a
Hindustani Classical Concert starring Sitar Maestro Krishna Bhatt and Nitin Mitta on Tabla.

Krishna Bhatt is a performing artist, teacher and a scholar. He comes from a prominent family of musicians in Jaipur. His father, the late Pandit Shashi Mohan Bhatt, a sitarist of great repute and a professor at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, trained many acclaimed musicians in the family including Krishna Bhatt, Manju Mehta and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.

Accompanied on Tabla by Nitin Mitta. www.nitinmitta.org

Post-concert artists reception w/refreshments.

Reflections Yoga

250 West 49 Street # 2 Floor

New York, NY

Tickets at the door (cash only):
$25 General Admission $22 Students/Seniors with ID
Advance purchase with discount:
$22 General Admission $20 Students/Seniors with ID
http://facebook.eventbrite.com/event?eid=115612455136219

More details: www.harricemillerentertainement.com

TUESDAY MAY 18 @ 8:00 PM HarmoNYom, in association with

World Music Institute

and WKCR 89.9 FM,

is celebrating its First Anniversary with a phenomenal Concert at the beautiful St. John Lutheran Church!

 
NOT TO BE MISSED! Two amazing & brilliant Indian Classical Musicians "Stars" merging Worldwide. Hindustani Vocal & Sitar Jugalbandi by

Debapriya Adhikary & Samanwaya Sarkar

(Disciples of the legendary Padmabhusan Girija Devi ji of Benaras Gharana). First performance ever in New York!

 www.devasaman.com

www.myspace.com/debapriyasamanwaya

Accompanied on Tabla by talented Nitin Mitta

and David Taylor on Tanpura.

S. John's Lutheran Church

81 Christopher Street (Corner of 7 Avenue)

New York, NY 10014

www.stjohnschristopherstreet.org

General admission: $25 

VIP Tickets: $75 (First Row + Signed CD)       

$50 (2nd row + Signed CD)

Tickets Online or at Door (Only Cash)

After Concert Celebration with reception w/Artists will follow at the Venue.

Haitian catering will be provided by It's Kix/Michaelle Cedras. More details: veronique@harmonyom.org

Sponsors:

World Music Institute www.worldmusicinstitute.org

WKCR 89.9 FM  www.wkcr.org

Pictures: Marcus Simpson

Recording: Ashok Ilankovan/WKCR

Host: David Ellenbogen/WKCR

Sound: Indro Roy-Chowdhury

Media: Village Voice, Masala Junction & Dawoud Kringle

SATURDAY MAY 22 @ 4:00 PM

For more details: www.shrutilaya.org

SATURDAY MAY 22 @ 7:30 PM

Chhandayan Center for Indian Music present a Vocal Concert by Smt. Kanika Pandey.

Smt. Kanika Pandey belongs to the new generation of vocalists who believe in evolving a personalized musical idiom by assimilating the best of other styles. Kanika was initiated into music by her father Shri S. S. Pandey at an early age. After having received a solid foundation in Hindustani classical music from him, in 1995, Kanika began to receive advanced training from the world renowned vocalists of Benares gharana, Pts. Rajan Sajan Mishra who have nurtured and continue to foster her art while helping her developing a style undeniably her own.

Sri Dibyarka Chatterjee - Tabla
Sri Kedar Naphade - harmonium

Chhandayan Center for Indian Music

4 West 43 Street # 618 (5/6 Ave)

New York, NY

Indian Ragas on Mandolin presented by

Snehasish Mazumder, Mandolin

Ray Spiegel-tabla

Snehasish Mozumder, the master of the Hindustani Mandolin returns to Woodstock in a concert of evening ragas and light classical Indian melodies.  Snehasish Mazumder, from Calcutta, India, is a virtuoso mandolin artist who specializes in North Indian music. 

Ray Spiegel will accompany on the tabla drums.

Bliss Yoga

6 Demming Street

Woodstock, NY  12498

845-679-8700

$20.00  admission

THURSDAY MAY 25 @ 10:15 PM

Master Mandolinist Snehasish Mozumder & SOM. 

Classical and jazz fusion's Snehasish Mozumder's double-neck mandolin is at the center of a band that swings it North Indian style.

SOM features:
Snehasish  Mozumder -mandolin

Nick Gianni -woodwinds,
Vin Scialla -drums, percussion
Jason Hogue -bass,  Bopa -percussion,
& guest: Jason Lindner -piano, keys

and Sameer Gupta on Tabla.

Snehasish Mozumder is among those few established musicians in India who has mastered the art of playing Mandolin, and has blended it perfectly into the style of Hindustani Indian Classical Music. Recently, Snehasish was invited by Pandit Ravi Shankar to perform for the George Harrison Memorial Concert held in ROYAL ALBERT HALL in London.
Som is finishing their new album and will be released this year. Full length album avail this Summer@ itunes.

www.myspace.com/somintrance
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=x8-pHs8BhVc

Rose Caffe

Grand Street

Brooklyn, Williamsburg, NY

Suggested donations: $5 

www.myspace.com/somintrance

SATURDAY MAY 29 @ 4:30 PM

SHRI RANGANATHA TEMPLE, proudly present

Kunnakudi M. Balamurali Krishna (Carnatic Vocal)
accompanied by Arun Ramamurthy (Violin),
A.R.Balaskandan (Mridangam),
Sriram Ramesh (Khanjira)

Born in the year 1985, Kunnakudi M. Balamurali Krishna has been one of the rising young vocalists. Music is in his blood. His father, Sri Meenakshi Sundaram, was his first guru, and he also had training under Sri Neyveli Santhanagopalan and Sri V.Sundaresan.
He is now under the tutelage of Padma Bhushan Sri
P.S.Narayanaswami for the past 14 years.

ARUN RAMAMURTHY began learning Carnatic music under the esteemed Sri Anantha Krishnan. Later Arun got the good fortune to be taken as a pupil by the celebrated violinist brothers, Sri Mysore Nagaraj and Dr. Mysore Manjunath who gave Arun rigorous advanced training in gurukula fashion.

A.R. BALASKANDAN (www.balaskandan.com)
is a performer and teacher of both Carnatic violin and Mridangam. He has received advanced training in Mridangam from Guru Karaikudi Mani and
Prof T V Gopalakrishnan.

Sriram Ramesh' s Gurus are Shri Vaikom R Gopalakrishnan for mridangam and Mr Suresh for drums. He is currently undergoing khanjira training under Khanjira Maestro Bangalore Shri N.Amrit (Disciple of the great G. Harishankar). He has been performing on the Khanjira, Drums, Rhythm Pads and Morsing with various leading artists

SHRI RANGANATHA TEMPLE

Pomona, NY

For further details, contact Usha Chari at ushasown@hotmail.com or 914-739-5513.

Free

Chhandayan Center for Indian Music present

a Vocal Concert by

Pt. Kaivalya Kumar Gurav, Pride of Kirana Gharana.

Pt. Kaivalya Kumar's is a blue blooded Gharanedari. His grand father Pt.Ganapatrao Gurav was a first batch disciple of Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, the founder of Kirana Gharana. Training under Pt.Ganapatrao Gurav, Pt. Sangameshwar, Kaivalyakumar's father and guru is a doyen, well known for singing in the true Kirana tradition. Father has groomed Pt.Kaivalyakumar into an outstanding vocalist of the country. Gifted with a naturally high pitched, mellifluous voice, Pandit Kaivalyakumar’s rendition of Raagas are marked by natural phirat, murki, rigorous tans, infallible rhythm, imaginative content and aesthetic approach to raagas. Pt. Kaivalyakumar is an youngest hindustani classical vocalist to get a top grade by 'All India Radio' and 'Doordarshan', a national television, at an age of 35.

http://www.kaivalyakumar.com/index1.html  

Ashis Sengupta on tabla,

Vinay Mishra on harmonium

Chhandayan Center for Indian Music

4 West 43 Street # 618

New York, NY

www.tabla.org

SATURDAY MAY 29 @ 8:00 PM

Ananda Ashram presents a North Indian Vocal Concert by Deepak Kumar Pareek with Tabla Accompaniment.

Deepak Kumar is a light classical singer and composer from the state of Rajasthan, India. His music covers a wide spectrum of styles: ghazals (romantic poetry), bhajans (devotional songs), kirtan and classic film songs. Deepak first studied with his father, Shri P.N. Vyas, and later with Ustad R.F. Dagar, Ustad Moinuddin Khan and Shri Mohinderjit Singh.

Ananda Ashram -Yoga Society of New York, Inc.
13 Sapphire Road
Monroe NY 10950

Phone: 845.782.5575 or ananda@anandaashram.org

Tickets: $15 / members $12; included in overnight guest rate

SHRI RANGANATHA TEMPLE proudly presents:
Srirangam S.Prasanna Venkatesh (Carnatic Vocal)
accompanied by Suhas Rao (Violin), Kumar Kanthan (Mridangam).
Preceded by Invocation song from Sruti and Vidya Kanthan

Srirangam S. Prasanna Venkatesh, Carnatic Vocalist and disciple of Madurai Sri T.N. Sesha Gopalan has been learning music for the past 20+ years and is a B-High graded Carnatic Vocalist in the All India Radio, Prasar Bharati.

Suhas Rao is a versatile and talented performer on violin. Learning from Smt. Tara Anand since age 6. He is also learning Carnatic vocal from Smt. Geeta Murali of Norwood, MA. He is also receiving advanced training from Sri Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Prof. T.R. Subramaniam, and Smt. A. Kanyakumari in Chennai.

Kumar Kanthan began learning mridangam at the age of 8 from Nagarajan of Delhi.

Sruti and Vidya are disciples of Srirangam Prasanna S. Venkatesh.

SHRI RANGANATHA TEMPLE

Pomona, NY

For further details, contact Usha Chari at ushasown@hotmail.com or 914-739-5513.

Free