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Amie & Sangeet Millennium’s January 2012 shows

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Wishing a happy, healthy, peaceful, creative, and prosperous 2012 to all!

Come and join us at one or both of these free, family-friendly shows:

Saturday, Jan. 14, 9:00-10:30 p.m. @ Monkey Nest, 5353 Burnet Rd.,  Austin TX 78756

  • This will be our first show of the year and our first time at this cool organic coffee house.

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Saturday, Jan 28, 6:30-9:30 p.m. @Tom’s Tabooley, 2928 Guadalupe, Austin

  • This show will be on a particularly auspicious date: Saraswati Puja, the festival of the goddess of learning and the arts whom musicians, artists, and students honor.  The Snug listening room at Tom’s Tabooley is perfect for creative expression set to creative dining!

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Talking Strings on NYE 2011, Austin, TX – Indian sitar meets West African n’goni and kora

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On New Year’s Eve 2011, two musical traditions from the heart of civilization–those of India and West Africa–will meet in live music capital Austin, whose world music scene continues to grow in vibrancy. Austin-based sitarist Amie Maciszewski will join with Niger-born  n’goni and kora (African harp) player/multi-instrumentalist Ibrahim Aminou in a collaboration unprecedented in Austin.  The show will take place from 9:30 to 11:00 p.m. at the Sahara Lounge, 1413 Webberville, in East Austin.  Aminou’s band Zoumountchi will play danceable Afropop and reggae from  11:15 p.m.  to 1:15 a.m.  Admission: $7, $10/couple–includes buffet and champagne at midnight.

For more information, please visit www.saharalounge.com.

Don’t miss it!

 

 

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Global Diva Kiran Ahluwalia in Austin!!

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A few photos from the Global Diva concert on Nov. 12, 2011

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Sangeet Millennium, an Austin Top Ten World Music Band, proudly presents Global Divas – an exotic concert of world music. The concert will showcase award winning Kiran Ahluwalia and her Ensemble. Sangeet Millennium Ensemble will open the concert with their genre-bending Indo-jazz fusion. The concert will be held at St. David’s Episcopal Church, Bethel Hall, on Saturday, November 12th at 9:30 pm.  Read more about this fascinating, richly creative Global Diva at www.kiranmusic.com and watch a video of one of Kiran Ahluwalia’s latest songs at www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4VqYHXwX5Y.

Sangeet Millennium, a musical initiative founded and directed by sitarist Amie Maciszewski, is known for its collaborations with world class performers of South Asian music. The two “global divas” have never performed together. They met in Canada five years ago, and Maciszewski has been trying to get Ahluwailia to Austin ever since. “I met a lot of obstacles in the process, and I almost gave up, “ recalls Maciszewski. “Kiran contacted me because there was an opportunity in her touring schedule and had long wanted to perform in Austin. This collaboration is particularly exciting because it showcases two women, with differing stories of migration. Both of us are latching on to traditional forms of Hindustani music, making them our own, and in the process, transforming them into a whole new genre.”

Born in India, raised in Canada, and residing today in New York City, Ahluwalia’s diverse background is evident in her entire approach to music making. Ahulwalia, an international touring artist and composer, is most known for her success in bringing traditional and contemporary forms of ghazals (Urdu lyrical poems) to life. Her music is a reflection of an ongoing quest to create timeless music in a modern and global context. This concert is part of an international tour for Ahluwalia’s new CD, Aam Zameen (Common Ground). The album’s influences span four continents and result in a sound that successfully merges contemporary Indian song with Saharan desert blues.

Internationally noted- sitarist and ethnomusicologist, Amie Maciszewski, created Sangeet Millennium in 2006. The three to four person Ensemble composes and performs traditional and original music from the Indian subcontinent, fusing it with jazz.. Maciszewski’s enchanting performances in North America, India, Europe, and Japan over two decades have received critical acclaim. Her performances continue to mesmerize audiences and provide rare insight into the vast complexity and mastery of the art of Hindustani music on sitar. The Ensemble will be performing various selections from their 2010 CD, Sangeet Safar, as well as new selections from their soon to be released album.

Tickets are now only $20 regular, $15 students/seniors/artists/World Music Unleashed ticket holders– available at www.nowplayingaustin.com  (512 474 8497). Ticket price includes beverages (beer, wine, nonalcoholic drinks). 

For more information, please contact sangeetmil@yahoo.com or call 512 965 2368.

Please visit our Global Diva page on Facebook and ‘like’ it!

 

This concert is supported in part by the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division. Special thanks to Pratham-Austin for their partnership.

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Sangeet Millennium Student Recital

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The recital went very well! Here are a couple of pics. Congratulations to all the students for their hard work. I’m so proud of you all!

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Amie and her students gather to celebrate the life of our young brother and sitar student Ben Yatsu (Dec. 13, 1995-July 10, 2011) with specially selected ragas. The event takes place at Bethel Hall, St. David’s Episcopal Church (www.stdave.org), 301 E. 8th St. in downtown Austin.

Much gratitude to Rev. David Boyd, pastor of St. David’s, for his kind invitation, and the St. David’s staff for their friendly assistance. Loving prayers to Ben’s family.

ALL ARE WELCOME!! Please join us in remembering and celebrating–and please support the hard work of the Sangeet Millennium students! Following students’ performances, Amie Maciszewski and Shiv Naimpally will perform on sitar and tabla.

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Global Grooves – Sangeet Millennium and Ustad Tari Khan

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     Global Grooves – Amie Maciszewski’s Sangeet Millennium Ensemble collaborates with tabla wizard Ustad Tari Khan and friends. 

Where: Dougherty Arts Theatre, 1110 Barton Springs Road, Austin, TX 78704

Tickets: $20 (general), $15 (students with ID/seniors/artists) from Here at Now Playing Austin or Here at Sulekha ,  $22 at the door.

Contact: Jo Rae Di Menno, Press Agent at jorae@hardpressedpublicity.com and at 512.554.2799 for further information, jpgs and live on-airs.

On Friday, August 26, the Sangeet Millennium Ensemble furthers its mission to provide opportunities for diverse individuals to participate in both traditional and new  music of the Indian subcontinent through collaborative performance, workshops, and more.  In the upcoming event the Sangeet Millennium Ensemble collaborates with Pakistani tabla wizard Ustad Tari Khan and friends. The performance takes place at the centrally located Dougherty Arts Theatre.

Details are being finalized for a house concert  and a workshop/meet and greet that weekend.  More information to follow.

The Sangeet Millennium Ensemble will showcase a combination of new songs from their repertoire, in addition to selections created through the collaboration with and led by Ustad Tari Khan. A highlight of the evening will be the performance of Khan’s scintillating, universally appealing tabla solo and vocals, supported by noted Dallas-based jazz guitarist Matt Gaskins. The Sangeet Millennium Ensemble also includes Paul Klemperer on saxophone and Shiv Naimpally on percussion and tabla.

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This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through Cultural Arts.

Additional special thanks to Shantabla Productions.

 

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Tari Khan, born in Lahore, Pakistan, hails from a family of musicians whose lineage can be traced back to the legendary Bhai Mardana. Today he is acknowledged as one of the foremost Tabla players of all time by musicians all over the world.  In addition to his superb mastery of the Tabla, Khan is also an accomplished vocalist.

Ustad Tari Khan has performed in virtually every part of the globe, participating in prestigious festivals and concerts, dazzling and captivating audiences with his extraordinary versatility. Tours abroad have taken him to almost every major city of the world, and he enjoys a large following, including former US and Pakistani Presidents George W. Bush and Pervez Musharraf.

His work has led to collaborations with artists and producers from all spectrums of the musical world, among them award-winning film director Mira Nair and famed producer Rick Rubin. He has also composed music for several films, such as Nair’s Mississippi Masala, starring Denzel Washington.

He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, among them  the prestigious Hazrat Ameer Khusro Award, the President’s Pride of Performance (Pakistan’s highest artistic honor), and  the title of “Tabla Prince of India and Pakistan.” Regardless of what Tari Khan chooses to present, his performances never fail to exhilarate and inspire audiences.  www.taritabla.com

 

The Sangeet Millennium Ensemble, a project founded and led by sitarist Amie Maciszewski, fuses traditional Indian music with jazz and other world music. This work follows the precedent set by her guru, Sarode Maestro Aashish Khan, and his elders, in which players of diverse instruments collaborate to compose, arrange, and perform loosely structured pieces, often based on classical ragas, allowing for considerable improvisation. The ensemble’s artistic work receives support from the City of Austin and Texas Commission on the Arts, among others. The Sangeet Millennium Ensemble was selected among the Top Ten Best Performing Bands/World Music 2010-11 in the Austin Chronicle Readers’ Poll. Their recent CD, “Sangeet Safar,” (2010) is available on CD Baby, abstractlogix.com, and at Waterloo Records in Austin, TX. The ensemble’s first CD, “Shimmering,” was selected as a Texas Top Ten in the Austin Chronicle Music Critics’ Poll 2007 year-end listings.

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