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Rageshree Music Institute
Proudly Presents

An Evening Of Indian Classical Music
 
AMIT CHATTERJEE / SITAR & POLASH GOMES / TABLA

Friday August 26Th @7:30 PM
TIBET HOUSE US

Donation $20:00 at the door & $15.00 for Advanced, Student & Senior Citizen

Rageshree Music Inst. www.rageshreemusicinst.org
(718) 672-3211, Ck, MO & Paypal Accepted.
or
Tibet House - (212) 807 0563  - www.tibethouse.org

If anyone wishes to make a Donation please contact us: www.rageshreemusicinst.org

Artist:

Amit Chatterjee is a guitarist, singer, sitarist and composer who combine his heritage in Hindusthani music with many years of playing and studying European, jazz and popular music. He has recorded and performed extensively with artists such as Joe Zawinul (1993 to present), Eric Johnson, Carlos Santana, Badal Roy, Glen Velez, Layne Redmond, David Lieberman, Paul Winter and Paul Halley. Currently Amit is featured in Zawinul's symphonic work on Phillips Classic 'Stories of the Danube'. He is also part of Zawinul's Grammy-nominated world/jazz recording, My People. He recently finished recording an album that features him as a songwriter and singer with his trio that includes Jorge Alfano on bass and flutes and Randy Crafton on percussion. Amit has also produced former Weather Report and Zawinul percussionist Robert Thomas, Jr's first solo album. Both of these works appear on Tetrad Recordings. His Work as a player and singer has received extensive critical acclaim from musicians and everyday listeners alike.
Amit was a visiting professor for the ethnomusicology department as the University of Miami from 1984-1986 and continues to draw on his multicultural background as a musician and teacher. His passion has been to continue to forge a true global music, one that is not a patchwork of sounds from different cultures but a new music altogether, spawned by the joys and sorrows of the life of the modern-day global human being. www.endlessradiance.com. Please listen to his music on youtube.com,  and  search under amit chatterjee / empathy.

Polash Gomes born in a Bengali Roman Catholic family in Kolkata, India. He is an accomplished tabla player in New York area. He follows the line of the distinguished Lucknow baj, he is a disciple of Dr. Mrinal Pal of Lucknow Gharana. He has also studied tabla under Pandit Swapan Chaudhri. He has performed for the United Nations, Brooklyn Museum, Ruben Museum, Asia Society-NY, Columbia University, Bucknell University, Brooklyn County College, and more. He is the founder of Rageshree Music institute, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of Indian Music in the West. Please visit youtube.com for some sampler sound.  www.rageshreemusicinst.org

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