BRM Year End Notes

Join Brooklyn Raga Massive for BRM Year End Notes, a celebration of music, closing out the year with two dynamic trios: Jay Gandhi (bansuri), Abhik Mukherjee (sitar), Mir Naqibul Islam (tabla) and Camila Celin (sarod), Mehrnam Rastegari (kamancheh), Roshni Samlal (tabla). Hosted by BRM Artistic Director Neel Murgai, the night will feature a lively raga trivia contest, exciting prizes and surprises, and a post-concert gathering over wine and cheese to thank our cherished supporters.

Your support helps BRM continue to bring transformative programming, from innovative concerts and jam sessions to enriching community workshops and artist residencies. In the tough times ahead, we will need music and community more than ever. As you savor the highest level of raga and raga-inspired music, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible donation to help us keep the ragas flowing in the new year.

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Abhik Mukherjee is a shining voice of the Imdhadkhani sitar gharana and Jay Gandhi, a prominent disciple of bansuri legend Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia. Both captivating solo performers in their own right, they are also well known for their enthralling musical chemistry together. Their performances are often imbued with a deep and spontaneous exploration of rasa (emotional essence) and mood. Together with Mir Naqibul Islam on tabla, from the farukhabad gharana, their contrasting yet complementary musical styles offer a compelling composite of melodic and rhythmic approaches.

Presenting sonic convergences and detours from Iran to South Asia, tabla player Roshni Samlal teams up with sarod artist Camila Celin and kemenche virtuoso Mehrnam Rastegari to explore sounds along the silk road. Folk and traditional lineages converse through a shared study of Indian classical raga, persian folklore and contemporary influences from the musical mecca of NY can be heard in this set, conjuring up a meeting of diasporic voices.

Brooklyn Raga Massive is an adventurous nonprofit musicians' collective that creates cross-cultural understanding through the lens of South Asian classical music by providing direct support to artists, fostering collaboration through our iconic concerts and jam sessions, facilitating cultural exchange through educational initiatives, and producing transcendent, and often massive, performances, festivals, and one-of-a-kind albums.

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