Ragas Live Festival 2023

Pioneer Works

24 continuous hours of transcendent, spiritual music at the Pioneer Works main stage.

Pioneer Works is excited to present Ragas Live Festival 2023. From October 14-15, Ragas Live Festival will present 24 continuous hours of transcendent, spiritual music at the Pioneer Works main stage.18 Performances will include masters of the raga tradition such as Ramakrishnan Murthy and The Akkarai Sisters alongside legendary figures in ambient music, minimalism and new music including Vicky Chow, David Cossin &amp; Mark Stewart of the Bang on a Can All-Stars and Mind Maintenance from the influential duo of Joshua Abrahms and Chad Taylor.Presenting music as diverse as a Georgian Polyphonic choir Supruli amongst traditional classical raga sets on the Sarod from Sougata Roy Chowdhury and sitar legend Garuav Mazumdar, the event is a refreshing and enlightening iteration of the traditional Indian Classical overnight concert. Genre expanding artists include Quadrature and a new group, Amirtha Kidambi, Qasim Naqvi &amp; Rafiq Bhatia Trio. Notably, Rafiq Bhatia’s Son Lux, was nominated this year for the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Everything Everywhere All at Once. Reflecting ragas influence on jazz, Celebrating John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu will feature Premik Russell Tubbs on woodwinds, an original member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Breaking ground within the tradition will be a jugalbandi, or duet, of Kunal Gunjal &amp; Suhail Yusuf Khan Kunal on santoor and sarangi, two traditional classical raga instruments that have never been performed together in the United States. To sarangi maestro Suahail Yusuf Khan’s knowledge, the last time these instruments performed together was in India featuring his legendary grandfather Ustad Sabri Khan.As Raga has influenced the genre of minimalism, the Ragas Live Festival has had a fruitful relationship with composer Terry Riley, an Artistic Advisor, who performed virtually for the festival in 2020 and 2021. This year, Riley has given his blessing to composer Amir ElSaffar to create and premier a new work inspired by Terry Riley’s seminal work In C. The new composition, In E half-flat will be the finale of the 24 hours of music and will be performed by an ensemble of 12 musicians steeped in the microtonal Maqam tradition of North Africa and the Middle-East. Other trailblazers in New Music and Ambient Music, Vicky Chow, David Cossin &amp; Mark Stewart of the Bang on a Can All-Stars will be performing for the first time as a trio and interpreting works by Nik Bartch, Brian Eno, Cassie Wieland and others.The 24-hour format is inspired by ragas' unique time cycle in which specific modes are only played at specific times of the day. This year marks the 12th annual incarnation of the event, which is rooted in raga—the classical music genre of South Asia.An event with a global listening audience, all 24 hours of live performances will be broadcast on WKCR - FM.About Ragas Live FestivalRagas Live Festival was born as an in-studio radio broadcast at Columbia University's radio station, WKCR, in 2012 and immediately gained a global listening audience. The annual presentation of 50-70 musicians and its expansive presentation of music inspired by the Indian Classical tradition became central to a musical movement that the New York Times, New Yorker, NPR, and others have called “The Raga Renaissance”. The event first left the studio and became a live, in-person broadcast in 2016 at Pioneer Works, where it has since grown a passionate following.

Agenda

Gaurav Mazumdar

Vicky Chow, David Cossin, and Mark Stewart

Amirtha Kidambi, Qasim Naqvi, and Rafiq Bhatia Trio

Celebrating John McLaughlin & Mahavishnu

Mind Maintenance

Hindole Majumdar & Ayushman Majumdar

Mitali Banerjee Bhawmik

Quadrature

Suphala

Shakir Khan & Zakir Khan

Suhail Yusuf Khan & Henry Hodder

Sougata Roy Chowdhury

Jay Gandhi, Abhik Mukherjee, and Samarth Nagarkar

Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy

Kanjourney by Selvaganesh and Swaminathan Selvaganesh

Kunal Gunjal & Suhail Yusuf Khan

Supruli

Ramakrishnan Murthy

Amir ElSaffar "In E Half-Flat"

Akkarai Sisters

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