Vocal Chant and Instrumental Raga Meditations in Topanga Canyon

Vocal Chant and Instrumental Raga Meditations 8PM Saturday JUNE 25, 2023!! Join tabla player Shashanka Bakshi with vocalist Girish Chatterjee and one of the leading sitarists in the country, Paul Livingstone for a meditative evening of classical ragas and dynamic rhythms.

Doors Open 7:30pm!

• Tabla – Shashanka Bakshi
• Vocals – Girish Chatterjee
• Sitar – Paul Livingstone

CONCERT 8PM

• $25 GTD CHAIR SEATING or Discounted 2 for $40
• $15 (garden, avail pillows or standing…flow…)

PAUL LIVINGSTONE, Sitarist

Born in Beirut, Lebanon, international performing artist Paul Livingstone is one of the leading sitarists in America today and dedicated teaching artist & community activist. He has focused his studies in the creative tradition of Indian classical raga music in which he has been rigorously trained for the past 25 years in India and the US studying under the late Amiya Dasgupta, Rajeev Taranath and the living legend Pandit Ravi Shankar.Paul has performed in around the US, Mexico, Europe & Asia and has just returned from a major concert tour performing Indian music in Nepal, India, Czech & Germany.

SHASHANKA BAKSHI, Tabla

has engaged in a life devoted to the art of Tabla performance and Indian Classical Music. His training began at the age of six under the tutelage of Pt. Bhola Prasad, who later sent him to study with the celebrated Pt. Kanai Dutta. After the untimely demise of Pt. Kanai Dutta, he was requested by the legendary tabla maestro Pt. Samta Prasad to become his direct disciple. He continued to receive intensive training from him in the Benares Gharana lineage for the remainder of Pt. Samta Prasad’s life, and is currently the most senior disciple of the great tabla legend.

With a career spanning over six decades, he has accompanied such celebrated artists as Pt. Nikhil Banerjee, Ustad Bahadur Khan, Pt. Ravi Shankar, Ustad Imrat Khan, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Ustad Nishat Khan, Pt. Buddhadev Dasgupta, Pt. V.G. Jog, Pt. Daya Shankar, Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Pt. Ronu Majumdar, Pt. Tarun Bhattacharya and Ustad Aashish Khan, along with many others.

GIRISH CHATTERJEE, Vocals

Pandit Girish Chatterjee is a globally acclaimed Indian classical vocalist of the Kirana Gharana who started his musical journey at the tender age of nine. A child prodigy, he received a scholarship from the Sangeet Research Academy, where he later on became a research scholar.

His father Sangeet Acharya Pandit Tarakeshwar Chatterjee was an icon of Kirana Gharana.

Pandit Girish Chatterjee is the direct disciple of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi.

Chatterjee was only14 years when he was invited by Pandit Bhimsen Joshi to perform along with him on stage at the Malknus Samaroh Festival in Kolkata.