Past Events
Date: Friday, Oct 21, 2022
Time: 7:00 PM
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Venue: Eastside Baha'i Center
16007 NE 8th St,
Bellevue, WA 98008
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Tickets: Early bird ticket $20 available until October 1st
$25 at door or online after October 1st.
Youth under 12 years FREE
Community Lights 2022
Open Call for Submissions for the 2nd "Ragamala Community Lights" Festival. Come, let us celebrate with uplifting music, the season of Diwali! Hindustani musicians 18+ years old, if you are an avid practitioner/teacher/student and based in North America, we're ready for your music!
What: "Community Lights" is an online festival of Devotional Classical Music and will feature 6-8 min video clips of performances from the community.
Where: Online on Ragamala's Youtube and Facebook channels
When: October 23rd, 2022 10 AM - 12 PM PST
Eligibility: 18+ years old musicians based in North America.
Deadline for submissions: September 25th, 2022
Your piece: You send us a 6-8 min high quality video clip of your music. Vocal, instrumental and group submissions are welcome. Your choice of music can be Dhrupad, Khayal, Thumri-Dadra, Bhajans or any Hindustani Classical Music genre, as long as the lyrics are devotional, and the music uplifting. Instrumental submissions are encouraged to play well-known devotional pieces. We encourage live saath/ accompaniment.
Your video must meet HD requirements with 1920x1080 resolution. Video file format should be MP4 or MOV . Please make sure you have adequate lighting on yourself and a clean, uncluttered background. And bring out your festive attire for your presentation!
Upload your video to Google Drive or OneDrive and send a link to seattleragamala@gmail.com
Please include information about your piece (bandish name, raga, taal, composer).
*Pro Tip: Phones such as iPhone 12 and up deliver good quality audio and video. iPhone records in MOV format.
Questions: Please write to seattleragamala@gmail.com
About the event
Community Lights (Link)
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM PST
Community Lights - a collage of devotional music from Hindustani classical music practitioners, performers and teachers based in North America.
This year's performances are by: Randy Hollinger (Sitar), Rohan Shirwaikar (Khayal), Spandana Battula (Sadra), Yogesh Ratnaparkhi (Khayal), Deepashri Joglekar (Harmonium) & Satyajit Limaye (Tabla) - Natyasangeet, Namrata Mahabal Vartak & Shreyas Vartak (Tabla) - Khayal, Amrita Rao (Khayal), Suchitra Iyer (Khayal), Sanket Joshi (Abhang), Anindita Das Talukdar (Bhajan), Vibhuti Kavishwar (Bhajan), Ravindra Saraf (Bansuri) & Ravindra Patwardhan (Tabla), Minal Guhe (Bhajan).
Khayal and Thumri Concert (Link)
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM PST
Shastriya Gaayan by Vidushi Suranjana Bose with Sandip Ghosh (Tabla), Gourab Chatterjee (Harmonium), Sarwar Hussain (Sarangi), Sahachari Sinha Roy and Susmita Seal (Tanpura and Saath)