Poetry of the Saints and Sages of India
sung by
Dr. Krishnakant Shukla
on tour from Varanasi, India
Wednesday, October.20, 2010
Concert to start at 8:00 p.m. (Tickets: $10)
Venue: Celo Meeting House, 70 Meetinghouse Ln, Burnsville, NC
While teaching Physics and Astronomy as an assistant professor in upstate New York, Dr. Shukla decided to leave academics and follow his heart and soul deep into the fathomless waters of Indian Classisical Music. Having studied with great maestros like Srimati Laxmi Shankar, Ustaad Ali Akbar Khan and Dr. Tapan Bhattacharya, he returned to India in 1994 to explore the roots of Indian Classical Music in the great living oral folk traditions. His musical search led him into remote villages in the Himalayan foothills, as well as far flung and difficult to reach dwellings in the central plains. He has been particularly influenced by the songs of Kabir, Gorakhnath and other nirguna bhakti poet-saints—songs that have been sung as part of a living oral tradition that is over 600 years old.
Dr. Shukla’s repertoire includes compositions of Tyagaraja, Tulsides, Surdas, Meera, Tukaram, Purandardas and other poet-saints of India as well as the musicasl compositions of Sufi saints. He has also been reserching, recording and performing the folk songs of rural northern India, which, according to him, is an art form of unparalled beauty which is fast becoming extinct.
For information :
Location: Celo Meeting House
70 Meetinghouse Ln, Burnsville, NC, 19355
Call 828-675-5535 for more information & Tickets ($ 10 each), Email: mcgahey@yancey.main.nc.us