Music & Poetry of South Asia

Join Kalapriya Center for Indian Performing Arts for a festival celebrating the music and poetry of south Asia. The program includes vocalists, spoken word performances, and musical pieces with ancient traditional instruments such as the bansuri flute, the sitar, the veena, and the tabla and mridangam, both percussion instruments. The event culminates with a special performance of “Songs For Many Lives: Carnatic Music for the South Asian Diaspora” by violinist Sruti Sarathy, vocalist Roopa Mahadevan, and featuring mridangam star Praveen Sparsh and jazz pianist Chris McCarthy.