June 15th, 2013 – Brooklyn Raga Massive Showcase at JACK! Performance Space in Brooklyn!

Saturday June 15, 2013

JACK! Performance Space
www.jackny.org/
505 1/2 Waverly Ave

Brooklyn, NY 11238
Btwn Fulton and Atlantic Ave in Clinton Hill
Brooklyn Raga Massive Monthly Showcase

A Night of Indian Classical Music Duets

featuring:
Jay Gandhi (bansuri) & Abhik Mukherjee (sitar)

Samarth Nagarkar (vocal) & Eric Fraser (bansuri)

Sameer Gupta (tabla) & Ehren Hanson (tabla)

8:00pm – 2:00am, $20 all access or $10 per set

Brooklyn Raga Massive kicks off their monthly showcase series for deep-listening audiences. This is a chance to check out the Raga Massive artists in a formal concert style setting, without the distractions of laptops, espresso machines and drunk chatter at the bar. The BRM monthly showcase presents Raga music in the formal environment, where it is traditionally heard. Please join us as we build our Indian Classical Music offering to include this monthly event for Deep-Listening audiences. Friday June 15, 2013 8pm – Tabla Duet, 10pm – Vocal and Bansuri Duet 12midnight Sitar and Bansuri Duet

Friday 3/24/2013 at 7:00pm Pandit Krishna Bhatt and Pandit Anindo Chatterjee Perform in Brooklyn, Prospect Heights

PANDIT KRISHNA BHATT – SITAR

PANDIT ANINDO CHATTERJEE – TABLA

Pandit Krishna Bhatt and Pandit Anindo Chatterjee Perform

Live in Brooklyn, Prospect Heights

Friday May 24th, 2013 7:00pm

636 Dean St (btwn Vanderbilt/Carlton)

Brooklyn, NY 11238, $20 at the door

7:00pm (opening performances by select disciples of the Maestroes)

FOLLOWED BY A RARE OPPPORTUNITY TO HEAR THE MAESTROES LIVE!!!

Krishna Mohan Bhatt Gurukul and Anindo Chatterjee School of Tabla are making Brooklyn, New York a base for their efforts towards spreading the education of Indian Classical Music today. Their institutions represent a strong community of Indian Classical Music lovers and students. This Concert is an opportunity to show your support directly towards these incredible musicians and their dedicated students.

Come join Biryani Boys, Brooklyn Raga Massive, Namaskar School of Music, ACST and Krishna Bhatt Gurukul in preseting a benefit concert featuring these true living legends of Indian Classical Music.A Night of Indian Classical Music With masters

Pandit Krishna Bhatt and Pandit Anindo Chatterjee
Friday, May 24th, 2013 7pm, $20 at the door

Presented by The Biryani Boys and Namaskar School of Music with ACST, Brooklyn Raga Massive.

The Biryani Boys and Namaskar School of Music are proud to present a very special evening of Indian classical music featuring two of India’s leading maestros:

Pandit Krishna Bhatt – Sitar

Pandit Anindo Chatterjee – Tabla

Tickets – $20 at the door.

All proceeds of this event will benefit The Gurukul School and Anindo Chatterjee School of Tabla.

Pandit Krishna Bhatt’s performances of Hindustani ragas have won the admiration of audiences in India, Asia, Europe and North America. His innovative style of music combines a rich blend of Gayaki (vocal) and Tantrakari (instrumental) techniques and musical compositions. His music is noted for its virtuosity, originality and depth of feeling that is conveyed to the listeners.

A rare luminary of Indian Classical Music, Pandit Anindo Chatterjee has attained new heights in the art of tabla playing. Trained from his early childhood by Guru Padmabhusan Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Anindo has developed a unique style expanding upon his vast knowledge of the tradition. Both technically and artistically, he is a milestone for future generations to follow, for whom he is a devoted Guru with some very promising disciples, including his son Anubrata. He is equally regarded as a soloist and an accompanist and has shared the stage with almost all the great musicians of India. In acknowledgment of his immense contribution to music, he was awarded the “Sangeet Natak Akademy Award” in 2002, presented by His Excellency The President of India.

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Brooklyn Raga Massive in Assosiation with Body Actualized Present

We are delighted to announce the return of Brooklyn Raga Massive to Body Actualized Center. We are so pleased to welcome such incredible musicians to our Center for a night of majestic and moving indian music.

Afrika meets India, Thursday 5/16 at Tea Lounge

Afrika meets India is an innovative project featuring master kalimba player Kevin Nathaniel Hylton and Indian bansuri meastro Eric Fraser.   Afrika meets India is a discovery of how melodic traditions from Afrika and India blend together in overlapping grooves, and in remarkably beautiful and intuitive ways.

Thursday, 5/16, 8pm, Tea Lounge (Park Slope), 837 Union st., Brooklyn, NY

Followed, as ever, by the Brooklyn Raga Massive Jam Session!

 

Exclusive Kathak Performance & Master Class in NYC featuring Racha Nivas 5/16/2013

Exclusive Kathak Performance & Master Class in NY FEATURING RACHNA NIVAS

Experience the dynamism of kathak dance in an intimate performance with internationally acclaimed and leading artist, Rachna Nivas, principal member of the Chitresh Das Dance Company and Co-director of the Chhandam School of Kathak .

Featuring live musicians from Brooklyn Raga Massive: 
Jay Gandhi – Bansuri
Shivalik Ghoshal – Tabla
Camila Celin – Sarod

Also, a special presentation of Kathak Yoga - an innovation of Pandit Chitresh Das integrating mind, body, and spirit.  Rachna is a pioneer in playing harmonium, singing, and dancing simultaneously.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Chelsea Studios
151 W 26th St #5  New York, NY 10001

Admission $10
Performance followed by Master Class (optional)

Brooklyn Raga Massive in May!

May is already in motion, and we have an amazing month in store for you. The Raga Massive continues with our rotating 1st set followed by the infamous Raga Massive Jam Session til 11:30pm.

May 2 – Arun Ramamurthy Trio – Jazz Carnatica – Arun Ramamurthy – violin, Sameer Gupta – drums, Perry Wortman – bass

May 9 – Brandon Terzic Trio – Matt Kilmer – Percussion, Rufus Cappadocia – Cello

May 16 – Afrika Meets India – Eric Fraser – Bansuri / Kevin Nathaniel Hylton – Mbira

May 23 – House of Waters – Max ZT – hammered dulcimer, Moto Fukushima – bass, Luc Notary – percussion

May 30 – Banyan Trees – Arun Ramamurthy – violin, Kirin Ramamurthy – guitar & vocals, Avi Shah – tabla, Ruchira Kannambille – keyboard

Sunday May 5 at Symphony Space NYC 7:00 – A Reunion of Two Maestroes

 Krishna Bhatt and Anindo Chatterjee

Perform Symphony Space NYC

Sunday May 5, 7:00pm

Pandit Krishna Bhatt – Sitar

Pandit Anindo Chatterjee – Tabla

New York is honored to host a reunion of two stellar musicians of the North Indian classical tradition. Sitarist Krishna Bhatt is one of the top sitarists of the world, performing in the style passed down by Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, and Pandit Ravi Shankar; Anindo Chatterjee is acknowledged as among the great tabla maestros of India. It is a rare event to have these two living legends together, as they inspire each other into flights of imagination, melodic poetry and rhythmic improvisation of the finest quality.

Part of WMI’s Masters of Indian Music & Dance series – Continuing WMI’s long tradition of presenting the finest in classical Indian performing arts.

http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/7635-krishna-bhatt-anindo-chatterjee

Jay Gandhi and Abhik Mukherjee with Special Guests this Thursday 4/25 at Raga Massive!

Jay Gandhi and Abhik Mukherjee with Special Guests

This Thursday Om Shalom will not be performing. Fortunately though one of the shining stars of the Brooklyn scene, has returned to his Massive Raga family! Welcome back, Jay! Come join us with Jay Gandhi (bansuri) and Abhik Mukherjee (sitar) and special guests, this Thursday, April 25 at Tea Lounge in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Jay Gandhi and Abhik Mukherjee with Special Guests

Tea Lounge, Park Slope

837 Union St, Brooklyn NY 11215

8pm – Jay Gandhi and Abhik Mukherjee

9:30pm – Raga Jam Session

Namaskar by Sameer Gupta performs at Brooklyn Raga Massive Thursday April 18, 2013

Brooklyn Raga Massive Thursday Raga Jam Session brings back NAMASKAR to play the opening set for their weekly Raga Jam Session Series. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to hear these creative improvisers work their take on the Golden-Era Bollywood and Semi-Classical songbook.

Thursday April 18th 2013
8pm – 9pm (Namaskar)
9:30pm – Raga Jam

Tea Lounge Park Slope
837 Union St, Brooklyn, NY 11215

Namaskar by Sameer Gupta

http://www.motema.com/downloads/namaskar/

Sameer Gupta – Drumset, Tabla
Marc Cary – Keyboards
Neel Murgai – Sitar
Arun Ramamurthy – Violin
Rashaan Carter – Bass

facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/181555185328505/?fref=ts

“Sameer Gupta played through his arrangements of Bollywood soundtrack songs…The crowd roared its applause.” – New York Times (Ben Ratliff, 1/9/2011)”Percussionist Sameer Gupta is cut from a global cloth.” – NPR Jazz (January 2011)NAMASKAR is a fresh and innovative approach towards jazz, Indian and soul music, embodying the integrative spirit of our time. The ensemble combines well known compositions from the Indian Golden Era of Bollywood with North and South India ragas, and modern American jazz in all its diversity, to craft an irresistibly beautiful artistic statement. Percussionist Sameer Gupta, known as one of the few percussionists representing the traditions of American jazz on drumset, and Indian Classical music on tabla, leads a world-class ensemble featuring pianist Marc Cary, who adds an urban inflection with his vibrant acoustic piano and fender rhodes gliding effortlessly between jazz and Indian themes

Camila Celin and Ehren Hanson performing Live

Just returning from India, Camila and Ehren will be performing live this Thursday at Brooklyn Raga Massive’s Weekly Jam Session.   Dedicated students of maestros Krishna Bhatt and Anindo Chatterjee Camila and Ehren will present there work in an intimate, yes informal way at:

The Tea Lounge, 837 Union St, Brooklyn, NY 11215

8:00pm, Thursday, April 11th.

This Event is Free for Everyone