PlAYLIST FOR WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 8, 2008
FALL FUND DRIVE WEEK I
10 AM – NOON
HOST: YATRIKA SHAH-RAIS
E-MAIL: yatrikashahrais@gmail.com
Artist (country)/ Album/ Label
10:00 AM – Noon
Selections from the following recordings
Yatrika’s 5 CD World Music pack:
1- Savina Yannatou & Primavera En Salonico (Greece)/ Songs Of An Other/ ECM
2- Vassilis Tsabropoulos, Anja lechner, U.T. Gandhi (Greece, Germany, India)/ Melos/ ECM
3- Kayhan Kalhor and Brooklyn Rider (Iran, USA)/ Silent City/ World Village
Kayhan Kalhor and Brooklyn Rider perform on Saturday, April 4th at 8:00 PM at UCLA’s RoyceHall. Tickets and info: www.uclalive.org 310-825-2101
4- Natasha Atlas and The Mazeeka Ensemble (Anglo-Egyptian)/ Ana Hina/ World Village
Natasha Atlas and the Mazeeka Ensemble perform at the El Rey Theatre on Sunday November 9 at 7:00 PM. 5515 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 90036 Tickets and info: (323) 936-6400
5- Bombay Dub Orchestra (UK- India)/ 2 Cities/ Six Degrees Records
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Various tracks from the accompanying CD to the book Tango Voices by Donald Cohen
Cesaria Evora (Cape Verde)/ Cesaria Evora/ Nonesuch
Cesaria Evora performs on Saturday, October 11 at 8:00 PM at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Tickets and info: www.uclalive.org 310-825-2101
Hariprasad Chaurasia (India)/ Hariprasad Chaurasia: Maestro of the Indian Flute/ Times Square Records
On tour in celebration of his seventieth birthday, Indian living legend Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia leads fellow bansuri (flute) virtuosos Rakesh Chaurasia and Rupak Kulkarni, Pandit Subhankar Banerjee on tabla, and Pandit Bhavani Shankar on the pakhawaj (drum) in a mesmerizing performance of Indian classical music, steeped in India's mystical traditions. Thursday, October 23 at 8:00 PM, at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2709 N Sepulveda Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90049 (exit Skirball Center Drive on the 405 freeway). Info: www.skirball.org 310-440-4500
Interview with Pejman Haddadi of Zarbang and Banafsheh Sayyad of Namah Ensemble
Zarbang (Iran)/ Persian and Middle Eastern percussion/ ARC
Zarbang (Iran)/ Call To Love/ Hermes Records
Merging contemporary dance with Sufi ritual, Persian dance & Flamenco, Banafsheh Sayaad and the Namah Ensemble perform with Zarbang percussion Ensemble featuring Pejman Hadadi, Behnam & Reza Samani & Javid Afsari. Sunday, October 12 at 8:00 PM at Wilshire Ebell Theatre, 4401 West 8th St., Los Angeles. Tickets & Information: (818) 887-7878, (818) 908-0808; Sherkat-e Ketab in Westwood: (310) 477-7477; Music Box in Westwood: (310) 473-3466
