Sarangi Sangeet

Master musician from Benares

A truly international performance bringing together the mystical sound of sarangi by Sangeet Mishra (Mumbai/Varanasi) with Brisbane's leading classical tabla player Shen Flindell and special guests Rahim Zullah, Vivek Narotram and Tahir Qawwali

Brisbane region 2010 Tour Schedule

Fri 23 April 7pm - Sunshine Coast
The Dance and Yoga Cafe
61a Bulcock st Caloundra

Sat 24 April 7pm - Brisbane
14A Norman St, Fig Tree Pocket

Sun 25 April 7pm - Byron
Temple of Melodious Sound
6 Goolara Ct, Ocean Shores

Wed 28 April 730pm - Brisbane
Sri Saileshwara Sai Baba Temple
1614 Sandgate Rd, Virginia

 

IN BRIEF

Eighth generation sarangi master Sangeet Mishra returns to the Brisbane region after his successful tour in 2009.

Indian classical music is a diamond of global culture, a timeless spiritual vibration with unmatched opportunities for improvisation and expression, tranporting listeners into realms of sound. This tour brings together musicians from India, Australia and America to evoke the peaceful sounds of Planet Earth.

Sarangi is an Indian bowed instrument with about 50 strings. Its sound is considered to match the human voice most closely, and its name literally means "hundred colours", reflecting the wide range of tones and moods it can evoke. An extremely difficult instrument, the art of sarangi is slowly dying. The sound is that of ancient spiritual India. Sangeet Mishra comes from a long lineage of sarangi players from India's holiest city, Varanasi, and has performed with leading artists all around India and the world.
Check out Sangeet on Youtube here.

No Indian classical performance would be complete without the dynamic drums Tabla, played on this tour by leading Australian tabla player Shen Flindell. Having studied under Varanasi's old master Pt Ashutosh Bhattacharya, Shen comes from the old school of Indian classical music - devoted to the spirit of music and evoking moods of Shiva, Ganesh and Goddess Saraswati.
Check out Shen on Youtube here.

Tahir Hussein Qawwali (special guest at Ocean Shores April 25 concert) is the student of Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (Pakistan) & Pandit Pashupati Nath Mishra (India). He has been touring most of the world since 2000 as the leader of the Fanna-Fi-Allah Sufi Qawwali Party.
Check out Tahir on Youtube here

LISTEN: Download a recording of one of Sangeet's concerts with Shen Flindell and bansuri player Taro Terahara here.