Ragas Live 2020 kicks off TONIGHT, and we have the schedule for the festival right here for you! Tune in!!!!!!

*NOTE: All programming has been shifted 12 minutes forward, as there was a technical issue; please adjust schedule accordingly

SATURDAY

7PM Raga Maqam: Amir ElSaffar with Brooklyn Raga Massive — Pioneer Works, Brooklyn NYC, USA 

Amir ElSaffar — trumpet / santoor, Arun Ramamurthy — violin, Hamid Al-Saadi — vocal, Abhik Mukherjee — sitar, Zafer Tawil — oud / percussion, Dena ElSaffar — viola / joza, Tim Moore — percussion, Firas Zreik — kanun, George Ziadeh — oud, Jay Gandhi — bansuri, Naseem Alatrash — cello, Kavichelvan Srinivasaragavan — mridangam, Roopa Mahadevan — vocal, Trina Basu — violin, Mari Tanaka — tanpura / sruthi box, Directed by Adrien H. Tillman. Raga Maqam is produced by The India Center and Brooklyn Raga Massive

 

8PM Dhun Dhora featuring the Dhol Drummers of Rajasthan — Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

Dayam Khan — harmonium, lead vocals, Sardar Khan — Sindhi Sarangi, additional vocals, Ghafoor Khan — khartal, Chanan Khan — dhol, Swaroop Khan — dhol, dholak, Sattar Khan — dhol-cheepm Pyaru Khan — dhol-cheep. Presented by Jodhpur Riff

 

9PM Andy Statman — B’nai Jeshurun, Manhattan, NYC, USA

Andy Statman  — clarinet, mandolin, Jay Gandhi — bansuri, David Ellenbogen — guitar, Directed by Adrien Tillman. Produced with the support of B’nai Jeshurun

 

10PM Zakir Hussain — SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA, USA

Zakir Hussain — tabla,  Rakesh Chaurasia — bansuri 

 

11PM Betsayda Machado y La Parranda El Clavo — El Clavo, Venezuela

Betsayda Machado — lead vocals and shakers, Adrian “Ote” Gomez — vocals and culoe’ puya, Oscar Ruiz — vocals and shakers, Nereida Machado — vocals, shakers and dancing, Blanca Castillo — furruco, Jose Gregorio Gomez — chorus and charrasca, Asterio Betancourt — quinto and culoe’ puya, Nelson Gomez — pujao, cumaco, paila and dancing, Youse Cardozo — conga, cumaco, paila and culoe’ puya

 

SUNDAY

 

12AM Alam Khan — San Rafael, CA, USA

Alam Khan — Sarod

 

1AM Swapan Chaudhuri & Ali Akbar College of Music Tabla Ensemble — San Rafael, CA, USA

Swapan Chaudhuri (Tabla Solo); Jim Santi Owen — Tabla, Morsing, Kanjira, Nilan Chaudhuri — Tabla, Rohan Krishnamurthy — Mridangam, William Rossel — Tabla

 

2AM Krishna Mohan Bhatt — Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NYC, USA 

Krishna Mohan Bhatt — sitar, Mir Naqibul Islam — tabla, Mari Tanaka — tanpura

 

3AM Parvathy Baul — Kamardanga, West Bengal, India

Parvathy Baul — vocals, ekthara, duggi, nupur 

 

4AM Charumathi Raghuram & Anantha R. Krishnan — Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Charumathi Raghuram — violin, Anantha R. Krishnan -mridangam

 

5AM Flute Shashank — Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Flute Shashank- flute, Akkarai Subhalakshmi — violin, Patri Satish Kumar — mridangam

 

6AM Gaurav Mazumdar — New Dehli, India 

Gaurav Mazumdar — sitar

 

7AM Womanly Voices of Jodhpur RIFF — Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

Sumitra Devi — vocals, harmonium, Ganga & Sundar — vocals, Mohini Devi — vocals, Susheela — khartal, manjira, Shyam Rao — manjira, Asin Khan — sindhi sarangi, additional vocals, Sadik Khan — dholak

 

8AM Roopa Mahadevan — Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NYC, USA

Roopa Mahadevan — vocal, Arun Ramamurthy — violin, Kavichelvan Srinivasaragavan — mridangam

 

9AM Ask Hafiz — Rubin Museum of Art, Manhattan, NYC, USA  

Sahar Muradi — poetry, Malini Srinivasan — dance, Haleh Liza Gafori — vocals, Trina Basu — violin, Rich Stein — percussion, Chris Hoffman — cello

 

10AM Abhik Mukherjee & Samarth Nagarkar Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NYC, USA

Abhik Mukherjee — sitar, Samarth Nagarkar — vocals, Dibyarka Chatterjee — tabla

 

11AM Mysore Nagaraj and Karthik Nagaraj — Mysore, Karnataka, India

Mysore Nagaraj — violin, Karthik Nagaraj — violin, Tumkur Ravishankar — mridangam

 

12PM 3G: Vikku Vinayakram, V. Selvaganesh & Swaminathan — Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Vikku Vinayakram  — ghatam, V. Selvaganesh  — drum kit, Swaminathan — Kanjira, konnokol 

 

1PM Prince Nepali — Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal

Prince Nepali — sarangi, Vibha Saran Nepali — tabla

 

2PM Toko Telo — Mangily, Madagascar 

Monika Njava — voice, percussion, Teta — guitar, voice, Jean Piso — accordion, voice

 

3PM Toumani Diabate — Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire & Derek Gripper — Cape Town, South Africa

Set 1: Derek Gripper, guitar; Set 2: Dr. Toumani Diabate — kora, Ahmed Diabate — kora, Balla Diabate — kora

 

4PM Arun Ramamurthy & Jay Gandhi — Rubin Museum of Art, NYC, USA

Arun Ramamurthy — violin, Jay Gandhi — bansuri, Vivek Pandya — tabla, Kavichelvan Srinivasaragavan — mridangam

 

5PM Brooklyn Raga Massive: In D — DiMenna Center, Manhattan, NYC, USA

Neel Murgai (sitar, composer, conductor), David Ellenbogen (guitar, composer), Jay Gandhi (bansuri, composer), Abhik Mukherjee (sitar, composer) Aaron Shragge — trumpet, Andy Statman — clarinet & mandolin, Arun Ramamurthy — violin, Charlie Burnham — violin, Damon Banks — bass, David Ellenbogen — guitar (composer), Galen Passen — sitar, Gwen Laster — violin, Gyan Riley — guitar, Jake Charkey — cello, Joshua Geisler — bansuri, Kane Mathis — kora & oud, Lauren Crump — percussion, Mari Tanaka — tanpura, shruti box, harp, Marika Hughes — cello, Ron McBee — percussion, Roshni Samlal — tabla, Samarth Nagarkar — vocals, Sameer Gupta — tabla, Trina Basu — violin, Tripp Dudley — percussion, Vin Scialla — percussion

 

6PM Terry Riley — Nihon, Japan

Terry Riley, keyboards and vocals

 

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