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We gratefully acknowledge support over the years
from all of you who attended concerts regularly
and from the following foundations:

Zellerbach Family Foundation
Alliance for California Traditional Arts
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
The San Francisco Foundation
LEF Foundation
WESTAF
National Endowment for the Arts

Concert Series + Decoction Coffee

Warren Senders - Khyal

Friday Evening
January 20th, 9pm (not 8pm) at the
Subterranean Arthouse

The intelligence of Warren Senders' khyal comes from decades of study and professional performance. A student of S. G. Devasthali, in the lineage of Gajananrao Joshi of the Gwalior gharana ("house" or "school" or "style"), Warren has developed an original gayaki, and in concert enjoys drawing from his repertoire of both common and aprachalit ragas. He is a faculty member at the New England Conservatory of Music, and in addition to his lifelong work as a performer, he is a sensitive teacher, and in the world of Hindustani vocal music in the USA, one regularly comes across younger singers who have benefited from his guidance. Warren is also a passionate advocate for much saner public policy on the environment, and his thought-provoking letters grace the editorial pages from time to time. And by any measure he practices what he preaches as well - he grows nearly all of his own vegetables at his home in Boston.

Carnatic Violin Concert
with Anuradha Sridhar

Saturday Evening
February 11th, 7pm at the
Subterranean Arthouse

Anuradha Sridhar has been a tireless teacher, performer, and ambassador for Carnatic music in the Bay Area. Groomed in a milieu that traces its roots back to the most significant Carnatic composer of all time, Saint Thyagaraja, the strains of music have been handed down in her family like a precious heirloom, from generation to generation. Her grandfather, Lalgudi Gopala Iyer, was an innovative teacher and a versatile musician who showed musical agility over a range of instruments. Anu, who has vivid memories of learning sessions with him, is the daughter and disciple of his fourth child, Lalgudi Srimathi Brahmanandan, the reputed sister of violin maestro Lalgudi G. Jayaraman. For over two decades, the renowned brother-sister duo performed legendary concerts many of which, even today, evoke awe in music circles in India.

Decoction Coffee + Analog ICM

UPDATE: January AND February!
BUT NOT Wed. Jan. 25th!

On Wednesday mornings we're serving up South-Indian style "decoction" coffee in traditional tumbler + davara (as pictured - a metal cup and saucer).

And at the same time, listening to all-vinyl, all Indian classical music. There's some great old music on record, and you'll get to hear some of it.

If this sounds like your kind of morning, you're welcome.

Milk frothed by hand-pouring - local origin organic milk from Straus in Tomales Bay (Point Reyes).
Coffee beans delivered by bicycle - fair-trade, organic, hand-picked, shade-grown.

Wednesday Mornings in January AND February
(BUT NOT Wed. Jan. 25th!)
at the Subterranean Arthouse

Coffee served fresh on the hour at 8, 9, and 10am.
(Served in-between on an as-available basis.)

$3 - $5 donation per serving
(sliding scale - cash only!).
Conviviality and listening free from 8 - 11am.

* Served with milk and a pinch of sugar by default.
Sugar-free is possible, but milk-free is not.
(Sorry. Also, no decaf.)

about the sangati center

The Sangati Center has hosted over 300 public concerts of Indian classical music.

Founded in 2006 by Gautam Tejas Ganeshan, the Sangati Center has brought together hundreds of artists and thousands of listeners in a six-year-long concert series.

All concerts have been presented strictly acoustically, with humans rather than electricity responsible for the sound. Admission has always been on a sliding-scale, with nobody turned away for lack of funds. Concerts have tended to attract between 15 - 40 listeners.

The word sangati in Sanskrit means "going together", as opposed to sangita, which many people mistake as our name, understandably, and which means "singing together", and is also a general word for music. Sangati also has a special musical meaning - it is the principle of development whereby a melody evolves by iteration.

[ prasant radhakrishnan at subterranean 11.19.11 ]	[ kalambur brothers at subterranean 12.17.11 ]
[ mohan rangan govindaraj at subterranean 9.17.11 ]	[ mallar bhattacharya at subterranean 10.8.11 ]
[ mahesh kale 6.16.07 ]	[ mahesh kale 6.16.07 ]
[ prateek haldar @ sitarfest 4.18.10 ]	[ prateek haldar @ sitarfest 4.18.10 ]
[ michael lewis @ haiti benefit 1.20.10 ]	[ jody stecher 2.13.10 ]
[ srivani jade 1.24.09 ]	[ matthew rahaim 7.5.09 ]
[ karthik lakshminarayanan 2.21.09 ]	[ partha bose 11.13.09 ]
[ bharatanatyam workshop with shyamala 5.25.08 ]	[ partha bose 11.13.09 ]
[ ashok maitra @ tablacentric 11.2.08 ]	[ indranil mallick 11.15.09 ]
[ group tabla class ]	[ ICM for children with robin sukhadia 1.23.10 ]
[ srinivas reddy @ sangati SF opening 2.4.07 ]	[ shahid parvez 4.27.07]
[ audience 4.5.08 ]	[ audience 4.18.10 ]
[ first concert @ sangati opening 4.22.06 ]	[ old sangati center! ]