Saturday, November 4, 2017
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Tabla prodigy Keshava Kaarthikeyan will offer a solo concert of tabla (indian drums) to benefit Matagiri at the Tibetan Center, 875 Route 28, Kingston, NY at 7:30 pm Saturday November 4th. The concert will begin with an invocation in Sanskrit by Gopika Dahanukar and an introduction to the Punjab and Maihar gharanas (particular schools of North Indian Classical music) by Ray Spiegel. The suggested donation is $15.
Keshava came to fame at a young age when he was featured on international television in the opening ceremony “Rhythms of India” for the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in 2010. He has studied tabla with Amit Kavthekar, Pandit Shankar Ghosh (online), Pt. Arup Chattopadhyay and masterclasses with Ustad Zakir Hussain. He is now a student of local tabla maestro Ray Spiegel.
Ray Spiegel began his formal studies in 1970 under Pt. Shankar Ghosh at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, CA and continued under the late Master Ustad Alla Rakha starting in 1975, specializing in the Punjab Gharana. He also benefited from intensive training and guidance from Ustad Zakir Hussain from 1973 to 1980. Ray regularly produces and performs Indian Classical Music with leading Indian and American artists as part of the Woodstock Music Circle and leads the Ray Spiegel Ensemble on both vibraphones and tabla. Ray was a founding member of the Diga Rhythm Band with Mickey Hart and Zakir Hussain in San Francisco.
Matagiri is a nonprofit organization in the process of building a straw bale super insulated building at its compound in Mount Tremper and welcomes donations in support of the project. Matagiri’s inspiration is the integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the international community, Auroville which is dedicated to human unity.
Auroville has pioneered afforestation, mudbrick, ferrocement, integrated pest management and many other ecological strategies in South India. Their international zone features a Pavilion of Tibetan Culture. In a letter Kalon Tashi Wangdi, the Minister for Religion and Culture of the Tibetan government-in-exile, wrote, “There is a deep connection between Tibetans and Auroville since 1971. His Holiness was invited to Auroville twice. Many Tibetans have been trained in Auroville in different skills like appropriate building technology skills, afforestation and environmental protection, etc.”
Matagiri offers weekly reading and meditation and yoga classes. They are co-sponsoring a talk honoring Henry David Thoreau’s 200th Birth Centenary by Prof. Richard Geldard at the Emerson Resort in Mount Tremper November 12th at 4 pm. The public is welcome to all events. More information is at www.matagiri.org or call 845-679-8322.
The Tibetan Center is dedicated to raising awareness about Tibetan culture and the current plight of the Tibetan people. More information is on our website at http://www.tibetancenter.org/
Location
875 Route 28
Kingston, NY 12401