Luminous Ragas Concert
PARASHURAM BHANDARI - SARANGI
HOMNATH UPADHYAYA - TABLA
BABETTE ACKIN - TANPURA
Sunday, February 26 at 3pm
East Hawaii Cultural Center
141 Kalakaua Street, Hilo
$20-25 sliding scale
$12 students w/ID
Saturday, February 25 at 2 - 5 pm
Workshop
Private Home, Hilo
Please call for location
$25
Pandit Hom Nath Upadhyaya is Nepal’s foremost exponent of tabla. As an accomplished performer, educator, and scholar, Hom Nathji has brought the music of North India and Nepal to audiences throughout the world. Pandit Hom Nath Upadhyaya is a master teacher, performer, and scholar of the tabla, which he has played for over 40 years.
Music Circle artist-in-residence Parashuram Bhandari hails from the former Kingdom of Nepal, a country of dramatic beauty with a rich and appealing culture. His music ranges from the exuberant to the hauntingly delicate, presented with the rhythmic power that is his signature. Sarangi, whose name means "hundred colors," is a bowed instrument of thirty-nine strings giving it a cello-like timbre with a bright, reverberating echo.
