Name: Ragas Live Festival 2018
Start: 2018-10-06
End: 2018-10-07
Location: Pioneer Works

Ragas Live is an epic 24-hour, 24-set festival featuring over 60 world-class musicians. A celebration of what The New York Times calls “the Raga Renaissance, flowering in Brooklyn,” the event features both traditional Indian Classical music and contemporary cross-cultural collaborations. Highlights include the Ritual Ensemble (Vijay Iyer, Rajna Swaminathan, Yosvany Terry, Ganavya); House of Waters; Mitali Bhawmik; Navatman Music Collective & Bulgarian Voices Trio; and Brooklyn Raga Massive’s Coltrane Raga Tribute. The visual experience will be curated by Nitin Mukul, whose videos will intersect with each raga’s specific characteristics, blending with the shifting rasas (essences) of the 24 hour cycle.

Roughly meaning “to color the mind,” India’s classical music is unique in that its modes are only meant to be played at certain times of day; the music harmonizes not only with the other instruments but also with the moods associated with, for example, sunrise or midnight. Inspired by this unique system, a community of 50 musicians descended upon radio station WKCR-FM in 2011 to bring listeners worldwide on a 24-hour journey of sound. Now in its seventh year, Ragas Live Festival brings this harmonizing, immersive experience to Pioneer Works.

Full schedule

5-6pm	Pradhanica Dance and Music Company	Jin Won (kathak) Michael Lukshis (tabla) Kaumil Shah (djembe) Indro Roy Chowdhury (sitar)
6-7pm	V.K. Raman	V.K. Raman (flute) Arun Ramamurthy (violin) Akshay Anantapadmanabhan (mridangam)
7-8pm	Mitali Bhawmik	Mitali Bhawmik (vocal) Anirban Chakravarty (harmonium) Dibyarka Chatterjee (tabla)
8-9pm	Ganavya	Ganavya (voice) Rajna Swaminathan (mridangam) Max Ridley (bass) Charles Overton (harp)
9-10pm	Karavika	Trina Basu (violin) Amali Premawardhana (cello) Perry Wortman (bass) Rajna Swaminathan (mridangam)
10-11pm	Aditya Prakash	Aditya Prakash (vocal) Arun Ramamurthy (violin) Abhinav Seetharaman (mridangam)
11pm-12am	Anirban Dasgupta	Anirban Dasgupta (sarod) Mir Naqib Islam (tabla)
12-1am	Samarth Nagarkar	Samarth Nagarkar (vocal) Rohan Prabhudesai (harmonium) Sandip Ghosh (tabla)
1-2am	House of Waters	Max ZT (dulcimer) Moto Fukushima (bass) Ignacio Rivas-Bixio (drums)
2-3am	Arun Ramamurthy Trio	Arun Ramamurthy (violin) Perry Wortman (bass) Sameer Gupta (drumset)
3-4am	Ross Hammond Trio w/special guests	Ross Hammond (guitar) Pawan Benjamin (saxophone, bansuri) Sameer Gupta (drums) Morgan Zwerlein (percussion) Renald St. Juste (percussion)
4-5am	Unstruck Sound	Eric Fraser (bansuri) Neel Murgai (throat singing, daf, sitar, electronics) Aaron Shragge (trumpet, shakhuhachi, electronics) David Ellenbogen (guitar, lap steel)
5-6am	Steve Gorn	Steve Gorn (bansuri) Shiva Ghoshal (tabla)
6-7am	Abhik Mukherjee	Abhik Mukherjee (sitar) Shiva Ghoshal (tabla)
7-8am	Jay Gandhi	Jay Gandhi (bansuri) Ehren Hanson (tabla)
8-9am	Andrew Shantz	Andrew Shantz (vocal) Anirban Chakravarty (harmonium) Roshni Samlal (tabla)
9-10am	Rajeswari Satish	Rajeswari Satish (vocal) Radhika Mani (violin) Bala Skandan (mridangam)
10-11am	Partha Bose	Partha Bose (sitar) Aditya Narayan Banerjee (tabla)
11am-12pm	Go: Organic Orchestra with Brooklyn Raga Massive	Improvisationally conducted by Adam Rudolph: Arun Ramamurthy (violin) Jay Gandhi (bansuri) Neel Murgai (sitar & overtone singing) Trina Basu (violin) Sameer Gupta (tabla) David Ellenbogen (guitar) Mari Tanaka (tanpura) Michel Gentile (c and alto flute, bamboo flutes) Sylvain Leroux (tambin, flute, bamboo flutes) Steve Gorn (bansuri flute, hichiriki) Kaoru Watanabe (c flute,fue, noh kan) Sean Sonderegger (contrabass clarinet) Ned Rotherberg (contrabass clarinet, shakuhachi, soprano sax) Avram Fefer (contrabass clarinet) Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon, sona) Ivan Barenboim (clarinet) Sana Nagano (violin) Gwen Laster (viola) Jake Carkey (cello) Marco Cappelli (acoustic guitar) Damon Banks (electric bass) Dan Kurfirst (cajon, frame drums, percussion) Harris Eisenstadt (bata, percussion) Joe Hertenstein (tiny kit percussion)
12-1pm	Navatman Music Collective & Bulgarian Voices Trio	Roopa Mahadevan Preetha Raghu Vlada Tomova Shelley Thomas (vocals)
1-2pm	Falsa	Umer Piracha (vocals) Tom Deis (guitar, harmonium) Paul Arendt (guitar, harmonium) Greg Foran (percussion)
2-3pm	Nitin Mitta & Suryaksha Deshpande	Nitin Mitta (tabla) Suryaksha Deshpande (tabla) Andrew Shantz (harmonium)
3-4pm	Ritual Ensemble	Vijay Iyer (piano) Yosvany Terry (saxophone) Ganavya (vocal) Rajna Swaminathan (mridangam)
4-5pm	Coltrane Raga Tribute	Sameer Gupta (drums) Jay Gandhi (bansuri) Trina Basu (violin) Arun Ramamurthy (violin) Brandee Younger (harp) Marc Cary (piano) Rashaan Carter (bass) Abhik Mukherjee (sitar) Mari Tanaka (tanpura) Pawan Benjamin (saxophone)

Get excited for the festival by listening to Ragas Live Retrospective here.

Ragas Live Festival is produced with the support of the Rubin Museum of Art and the Peck Stacpoole Foundation.