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06/14 Saturday
1:30 PM Gill Aharon's Student Recital
4:00 PM Gautam Tejas Ganeshan
Founder and director of the Sangati Community Center for South Asian Music in San Francisco, a nonprofit performance venue for weekly public chamber concerts of Indian classical music, Gautam performs thoughtful, creative vocal music at the threshold between Indian classical music and its source – the source of all music – the natural world of sound, the harmony of proportion, the pristine, eternal beauty of patterns and the mind, and the complex eddies of human experience and emotion. Gautam has guest-lectured on Carnatic (South Indian classical) music for the Music of India courses at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and in 2004 was awarded two significant grants for the academic study of music - the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship and the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, issued by the U.S. Department of Education.
Anantha R. Krishnan
The grandson and disciple of the mridangam legend Sri Palghat R. Raghu, Anantha performed his first concert for violinist Professor T. N. Krishnan, and before reaching the age of fifteen had the distinction of performing with many of the finest among a generation of Carnatic musicians: Sri K.V. Narayanaswamy, Mandolin Sri U. Srinivas, Dr. N. Ramani, Sri M.S. Gopalakrishnan, Dr. K.J. Yesudas, Chitravina Sri Ravikiran, Sri Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, Sri N. Vijay Siva, Sri P. Unnikrishnan, among thers. During this period, Anantha recieved many awards from traditional organizations of Carnatic music in Chennai, India. Most notably, he won the Best Mridangist Prize from the Music Academy, Madras, for three consecutive years between 1998-2001, a first for a mridangist under the age of twenty. After a break of six years, he returned back to the Academy this past year and was again awarded with the Best Mridangist Prize for 2007.
8:00 PM Tap and Jazz: A Musical Conversation
An evening of improvisation, combining tap dance and jazz music.
Featuring some of Boston's top dance and musical talent.
Hosted by Suzanne Bouffard
This month’s musicians:
Kevin Harris - piano
Jorge Perez-Albela - percussion
Keala Kaumeheiwa - bass
Advanced dancers welcome to dance. Musicians welcome to sit in.
Suggested donation: $10 ($15 suggested for dancers)
Suggested arrival time for dancers: 7:30 pm
For more information, email Suzanne at smbouffard@gmail.com
10:00 PM Blind Kae and the SeeMonkees
Instrumentation:
Ukulele,Electric guitar, toy piano, footbells, vocals- Kaitlyn smith
Dobro, Guitar, vocals- Jeremy Harris
Accordion- Ciaran O'rourke
Kazoo, Vocals- Jana Borg
Drums- Timur Yusef