An Evening with Sheela Bringi, Elden Kelly & Special Guest River Guerguerian

Schedule

Fri, 26 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

312 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC, United States, North Carolina 28806 | Asheville, NC

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APLR Presents: An Evening with Sheela Bringi, Elden Kelly & Special Guest River Guerguerian
Friday, September 26th, 2025
AyurPrana Listening Room - 312 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806
Doors 6 PM || Show 7 PM
An Evening with Sheela Bringi, Elden Kelly & Special Guest River Guerguerian
Join us for an intimate and unforgettable journey in music with acclaimed Indian-American bansuri flutist, harpist, and vocalist Sheela Bringi and genre-blurring world guitarist and vocalist Elden Kelly, joined by Asheville's own master percussionist River Guerguerian.
Known for her luminous voice and deep grounding in Indian classical and devotional music, Sheela Bringi has enchanted listeners worldwide with her blend of mantra, raga, and sacred song. For this special event, she unites with Elden Kelly—a virtuoso of fretless guitar, known for his fluid fusion of jazz, world, and roots traditions—to present a program of original, soul-calling songs and mantra-infused soundscapes.
While not a traditional kīrtan gathering, this concert will gently open into shared space through mantra, while weaving in lush, heartfelt compositions with English, Hindi, and Sanskrit lyrics that reflect the duo’s deep creative synergy and cross-cultural dialogue. The music honors the devotional essence of chant, while expanding into new terrain—melodic meditations, improvisational textures, and songs crafted for healing, longing, and joy.
River Guerguerian brings his deep rhythmic intuition and world percussion mastery to the collaboration, adding earthy pulse and sonic depth to the evening's musical alchemy.
Expect a listening experience that is expansive yet grounded, meditative yet alive, and filled with rich textures of harp, bansuri, fretless guitar, harmonium, voice, and world percussion.
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312 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC, United States, North Carolina 28806

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