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12-13 Zakir Hussain and Rakesh Chaurasia
Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 7:30PM

The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts
3 Spruce Street
New York, NY 10023
Located between Park Row and Gold Street (near Brooklyn Bridge and City Hall)
2/3 to Park Place/Broadway; R/W to City Hall; J/M/Z to Fulton Street; 4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall


Tabla superstar Zakir Hussain, India’s most celebrated living artist and an extraordinary percussionist of international renown, will be joined for this evening of Indian classical music by bansuri flute prodigy Rakesh Chaurasia, a nephew of maestro Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia. Widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest percussionists, Zakir is known equally for his mastery of theclassical Hindustani repertoire of ragas as for his historic collaborations with Shakti with John McLaughlin and L. Shankar, Planet Drum with the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart. A spectacular New York debut.