Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Sixth and I Historic Synagogue
Street: 600 I Street NW
City/Town: Washington, DC
Anoushka Shankar Concert – Buy tickets at the link below and WPAS will donate $5 per ticket to charity “Asha for Education”, a 501(c)(3) in the USA. See details below.
Link to purchase tickets:
https://www.desiclub.com/shop/cart/ticket_purchase.cfm?eventID=8237
Note: Tickets can also be purchased directly on the wpas.org website for the same price, but that will not benefit the charity – Asha for Education. We have made this special arrangement in order to benefit “Asha for Education”.
When you buy tickets at DesiClub, ticket proceeds are split as follows:
WPAS gets $25
Asha for Education gets $5
DesiClub gets their service charge
When you buy tickets at WPAS.org, the entire proceeds including the service charge goes to WPAS.
Anoushka Shankar Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoushka_Shankar
Link to purchase tickets:
https://www.desiclub.com/shop/cart/ticket_purchase.cfm?eventID=8237
Any questions, email anoushkaforasha@gmail.com
From Anoushka Shankar’s Official website:
Sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar has emerged as one of the leading figures in World Music today. She is deeply rooted in Indian classical music, having studied exclusively with her father, the legendary Ravi Shankar, and is now one of the foremost performers in that tradition. In tandem with this, she has flourished as a performer and composer, exploring fertile ground in the crossover between Indian music and a variety of genres including electronica, jazz, flamenco and Western classical music.
Born June 9, 1981, Anoushka has been playing and studying the sitar with her father since she was nine. At age 13 she made her performance debut.
Today, from her twin homes of New Delhi and California, she continues to stretch out in different directions. She has made guest appearances on recordings by other artists, among them Sting, Lenny Kravitz and Thievery Corporation. Meanwhile her developing work with Western classical musicians has included duetting with acclaimed violinist Joshua Bell at the 2007 Verbier Festival. Back in 2000 she also appeared at the Evian Festival in a sitar-cello duet with Mstislav Rostropovich, and in 1998 had duetted with flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal, playing both sitar and piano. She has also performed as the soloist in performances of her father’s 1st Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra, while in January 2009 she was the sitar soloist alongside the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for the series of concerts premiering his 3rd Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra.
“I see all these as ways for me to keep growing and remain really fresh,” says Anoushka. “I love getting to explore different avenues in music, and whether that’s playing with my father – which is one kind of ultimate experience in purely classical music – or having a band that’s presenting my vision of classical music in a different way, or collaborating with different artists or an orchestra, I revel in getting to do all these things.”
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