ANOUSHKA SHANKAR - The Rise Tour

August 10, 8pm / The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

Presented in collaboration with Festival Vancouver www.festivalvancouver.ca
With Special Guests Dharmakasa

Anoushka Shankar's launches a new band and fourth album for Angel Records, Rise, marking a defining moment in the career of the Grammy-nominated sitarist. Having performed and previously recorded strictly in the classical Indian tradition of her father, the legendary Ravi Shankar, Anoushka truly emerges here as a potent creative force, not only performing on sitar, but also exhibiting her own unique voice as a composer, arranger & producer, as she collaborates with a select crew of 7 virtuoso Eastern & Western musicians wielding a variety of both acoustic & electronic instruments including traditional indian tabla, flute, voice, piano & synthesizer, electric bass, and live programming.

Opening for Anoushka is Dharmakasa , an innovative trio of world musicians who paint evocative and provocative spiritual soundscapes using a rich palette of traditional and invented instruments, including the Japanese flute, the Australian didgeridoo, Eastern hand percussion, and the original cello-kalimba. Members of Dharmakasa are Andrew Kim, Alcvin Ramos and Tarun Nayar.

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