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Brooklyn Raga Massive, a popular Indian-American music collective, is scheduled to hold weekly concerts to celebrate music-greats such as legendary sitar player Ravi Shankar and George Harrison of the Beatles. It is teaming up with Pioneer Works, a Brooklyn-based center for research and experimentation in contemporary culture, for a 3 month artist residency that launches with an Africa/India Concert on Feb. 3, consisting of multidisciplinary performances, recording sessions, educational workshops and podcasts.
The New Yorker magazine called BRM the “leaders of the raga renaissance” and Wall St Journal said “BRM members seek to redefine classical Indian music in the new century.”
For every Wednesday in February, March and April, BRM will bring their weekly series to Pioneer Works, expanding it to include themed events like a Women’s Night, Dance and Africa/India, as well as tributes to Shankar and Harrison. Special guest artists, such as Pandit Krishna Bhatt, Indian-American musician, producer and composer Karsh Kale, and Indian-Canadian avant-garde classical singer Kiran Ahluwalia. Thursday nights will feature workshops on Indian music, and the recording studio at Pioneer Works will be used to develop compositions that are expected to culminate in an album.
For almost 4 years, the Brooklyn Raga Massive has held a weekly concert series and jam sessions in Brooklyn, featuring classical Indian performances and experiments with contemporary and world music. “The inclusive and spontaneous sessions have created a strong community of world class musicians and dedicated fans, and has been an incubator of new genres of music indigenous to Brooklyn,” BRM said in a press release Jan. 19.
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