<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello All- Here is a bit of news and a concert announcement for those of you in the Bay Area.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>First the news...</DIV><DIV>I have just returned from India and Europe.</DIV><DIV>We had a great time in Chennai, performing at the Music Academy,</DIV><DIV> along with young Indian violin virtuoso, Kala Ramnath </DIV><DIV>and the ever funky Kai Eckhardt.</DIV><DIV>You can check out concert reviews at:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.hindu.com/mp/2006/11/18/stories/2006111801350500.htm"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">http://www.hindu.com/mp/2006/11/18/stories/2006111801350500.htm</SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://sify.com/carnaticmusic/fullstory.php?id=14335136"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">http://sify.com/carnaticmusic/fullstory.php?id=14335136</SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">After the concert I spent a day in Chennai recording with Selva Ganesh and U. Srinivas, </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the two extraordinary Carnatic musicians who represent half of "Remember Shakti".</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">It was a pleasure to spend time with these great human beings and the venerable T.H "Vikku" Vinayakram (Shakti's original ghatam player and Selva's father).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From India I headed up to England for a very special concert at the Queen Elisabeth Hall in London with the extraordinary Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia on bansuri, along with Vijay Ghate on tabla and Dutch harpist Gwynneth Wentink. We repeated our program in Lille, France, at the jewel-like Opera House for their "Grand Nuit des Ragas".</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Lille is a picture-book town near the Belgian border (well worth the easy train trip from London or Paris) and has transformed itself for a three month celebration of Indian culture. The main boulevard is currently lined with 30ft tall, bejeweled elephants and the train station is covered with a facade of lights transforming it into a shimmering Bollywood palace.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">It was truly an honor to participate in this festival of Indian music and culture.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Now I am back home and very excited about this Monday's concert at the Herbst Theater</DIV><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The first half of the evening Zakir Hussain and Antonia Minnecola will be presenting a program of classical and original kathak, accompanied by Yusuf Mahmoud on vocals and harmonium and Jagan Ramamoorthy on violin.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The second half we will be performing "Rapt No Strings" an extended work of poetry, dance and music, composed by Zakir for an SF Jazz commission, first performed in 1998. 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