GHAZAL
Saturday, March 21, 8:00 pm
Berklee Performance Center
136 Massachusetts Ave., Boston
Reserved Seating
$37.00, $32.00, $28.00 (includes Berklee $1.00 restoration fee)

Beautiful, mesmerizing, and profoundly musical, Ghazal brings together world-renowned Persian and Indian musicians to create an exquisite and harmonious dialogue between the two traditions. Iran’s kamancheh (spiked fiddle) master Kayhan Kalhor and India’s sitar virtuoso Shujaat Hussain Khan have toured the world over to critical acclaim. They will be joined by the superb tabla player Sandeep Das.

“An irresistible expression of creative musical passion.”–Los Angeles Times

http://worldmusic.org/content/event_page/2356/ghazal


ZAKIR HUSSAIN AND CELTIC CONNECTIONS
Sunday, March 29, 7:00 pm
Somerville Theatre
55 Davis Square., Somerville
Reserved Seating
$40.00 (includes Somerville Theatre $1.00 restoration fee)

Tabla master Zakir Hussain has long explored cross-cultural music fusions with the likes of Mickey Hart, Bela Fleck, John McLaughlin, and Yo-Yo Ma.  His newest project, Celtic Connections, pairs the beautiful and flowing melodies of Celtic instruments including bodhran, violin, pipes, flutes, and whistles with Indian tabla, bamboo flute, and Carnatic (south Indian) violin. This groundbreaking ensemble tours North America performing The Pulse of the World for the first time with a stellar lineup of Indian and Celtic musicians.

Featuring:
Zakir Hussain, Tabla
Rakesh Chaurasia, Bamboo Flute
Fraser Fifield, Flute/Pipes
Jean-Michael Veillon, Flute
Ganesh Rajagopalan, Violin
Charlie McKerron, Fiddle
Patsy Reid, Fiddle
Tony Byrne, Guitar
John Joe Kelly, Bodhran

http://worldmusic.org/content/event_page/2421/zakir-hussain-and-celtic-connections

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