SUFI SOUL - 31 July 7:30pm
Artbeat Management and Silk Road Music Project present SUFI SOUL!
Join Adelaide’s foremost performers in an ecstatic concert of mystical, music, song & dance from Afghanistan, North India and the Middle East. The Silk Road Music Project comprises an ensemble of talented Adelaide performers working together to present this important cultural tradition to the South Australian public and is first in a series of Sufi music concerts to be staged in 2010.
‘Sufi Soul’ features three inspirational singers, all now resident in Adelaide…. Inderjit ‘Sunny’ Singh a superb and highly acclaimed young Punjabi vocalist with many years experience as a vocalist and composer in the Bombay music industry. Farid Drokshan, formerly from Kabul in Afghanistan is a powerful exponent of the timeless folk material from the region and Shetal Dabgar a fine singer from Gujarat. They are supported by Jay Dabgar one of Australia’s top Tabla players who comes from one of Ahmadabad’s main musical families . He also runs Adelaide’s only school of Tabla percussion
Other artists supporting the singers are world music virtuoso Josh Bennett (Sitar, Dilruba and Electric Guitar), Keith Preston (Kashmiri Santoor and Bouzouki) and Quentin Eyers (Mandolin, Didgeridoo and Guitar). Each of these have performed overseas and recorded for many years with leading Indian and Afghan artists.
RAGAS 2 BLUE RICHES & BEYOND
The first half of the Ragas2BlueRiches&Beyond tour is now complete, and saw us on a lap around the East Coast from the National Folk festival in Canberra, via house concerts to Melbourne for gigs with Boite and Bar 303, then back up the coast to Congo, Tomerong, Bedalla, Newcastle, Karuah, Wauchope, Dorrigo... a fantastic fun musical voyage. Here's a clip from Wauchope Arts Centre:
Planning for the next tour is well underway, with some repeat visits to Dorrigo and Uralla, and many new places too.
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