NEW Download a recording of a 2009 home concert by Taro and Shen with sarangi master Sangeet Mishra.

Taro Terahara & Shen Flindell

Indian Classical Bansuri & Tabla

Returning to Australia is brilliant bansuri player from Japan, Taro Terahara (bansuri), accompanied on tabla by Shen Flindell. Taro and Shen will give some Indian Classical performances including at Woodford Folk Festival, and will tour with award-winning world music fusion group Tibet2Timbuk2.

 

Summer 2012 Australia Tour Schedule

730pm Fri 9 Dec Brisbane: Indian Classical Bansuri Temple Concert
Opening mantra by Yuki Taniguchi
Sri Saileshwara Temple
1614 Sandgate Rd, Virginia

Sat 10 Dec Maleny: Bansuri Workshop and Concert
4pm-530pm: Workshop
630pm-8pm: Concert
Opening mantra by Yuki Taniguchi
Awakening Centre, 35 Rosella Rd, North Maleny
Ph 07 5494 2101

4.30pm Sun 11 Dec Chenrezig: Lungta The Windhorse Concert
Tibet2Timbuk2 with Taro Terahara
Chenrezig Institute, 33 Johnsons Road, Eudlo

Fri 16 Dec Bellingen: Tibet2Timbuk2 and Taro Terahara
Bellingen Memorial Hall

Sat 17 Dec Wauchope: Tibet2Timbuk2 and Taro Terahara

2pm Sun 18 Dec Mt Burrell: Tibet2Timbuk2 and Taro Terahara
Sphinx Rock Cafe

27 Dec 2011 - 1 Jan 2012: Woodford Folk Festival

 

IN BRIEF

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, Japan and Australia to evoke the peaceful sounds of Planet Earth.

Bansuri is the Indian classical bamboo flute, bringing the sound of air, the mountains, the uplifting devotional mood of Krishna. Master bansuri player Taro Terahara is a leading musician in the thriving Indian classical music community of Japan, well-known from Woodford Folk Festival appearances including New Year's Dawn 2006 and New Year's Midnight 2006/07.
Check out Taro 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.

Artist bios and photos are on the Profiles page.