Location : Smithsonian’s Freer Galery
Time: 7:30 -9:30 PM
Details:
Indian flutist Ravi Kulur, who tours regularly with six-time Grammy nominee Anoushka Shankar, combines Indian classical music, dance, and poetry to explore the ragas (melodic modes) represented in four seventeenth-century paintings on view in the Freer. Ravi Kulur has appeared at WOMAD, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Royal Festival Hall in the UK, and in fourteen European countries. He has also performed at Carnegie Hall and Joe’s Pub (New York), Symphony Hall (Boston), Millennium Park (Chicago), Disney Hall (Los Angeles), and the San Francisco Jazz Festival. Joining him are the Bangalore-based vocalist Nandakumar Unnikrishnan and percussionist Kartik Vydhatri (on mridangam), along with dancers Vijay Palaparty and Nalini Prakash from Spilling Ink and poet Satya Palaparty.
