The Alaya Project
Schedule
Thu Jun 27 2024 at 12:30 pm to 01:30 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival | San Francisco, CA
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Free. Outdoors. Fresh. | Yerba Buena Gardens FestivalIndian-American percussionist and composer Rohan Krishnamurthy has staked out fertile soil where ancient Carnatic musical forms flow into the improvisational fields of jazz. A disciple of the legendary Indian percussion maestro Sri Guruvayur Dorai, with whom he studied in Chennai, India, Krishnamurthy has developed a hybrid kit that encompasses a jazz/funk drum set and the South Indian mridangam drum. Requiring both hand and stick techniques, the self-designed kit is at the center of The Alaya Project, an Indo-jazz-funk experiment with world-jazz luminaries Prasant Radhakrishnan (saxophone) and Colin Hogan (keyboard/accordion). Built over two decades of friendship, dialogue and musical immersion across genres and continents, The Alaya Project features driving grooves, soulful ragas, melodic improvisation and a jazz-infused harmonic foundation embodying the permanence of a changing soundscape.
Part of Yerba Buena Gardens Festival's Thursday Lunchtime Concert series. For the full program schedule, visit www.ybgfestival.org
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Where is it happening?
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, 781 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103-3132, United States,San Francisco, CaliforniaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
