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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

To those who were anticipating Anuradha Sridhar's concert,
please know that it has had to be postponed.

I'm looking forward to being able to schedule it again in the future,
and I'm also looking forward to singing for you all instead,
together with two excellent musicians.

Gautam Sings.

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

Gautam Tejas Ganeshan - song
Kaushik Lakshminarayanan - bamboo flute
Shriram Brahmanandam - mridangam

Gautam runs the Sangati Center, so you've probably met him at a concert. He has sung at many of the East Bay's venues for traditional music - the Julia Morgan Theater, the new Freight & Salvage, and Ashkenaz. He has guest taught Carnatic music for the Music of India courses at UC Berkeley, and has conducted workshops on singing and the aesthetics of Indian classical music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and at the Asian Art Museum (SF).

Gautam reads and writes enough blurbs for musicians that he realizes their value.
So don't worry about it, just come to the concert.
This isn't really "new directions".
Maybe some other directions.

Decoction Coffee + Analog ICM

UPDATE: February AND March!

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.

[ warren senders at subterranean 1.20.12 ]
[ 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! ]

contact info

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Berkeley, CA 94709