Gigs / Stand up comedy nights at Blue Frog, The Kila, Seven Style Mile, Mehrauli > 6th-11th November 2012

Time : 
6th to 9th November : 10:00 pm onwards
10th November : 8:00 pm 
11th November : 9:00 pm

Entry :  
6th to 9th & 11th November : Rs 300
10th November : Rs. 600
For information and reservations: +91 11 30800300
Note : 18 Year and above

Place : Blue Frog, The Kila, Seven Style Mile, Mehrauli, New Delhi 110030
Venue Info : About | Events | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Saket(Yellow Line)Exit Gate-2'
Landmark : Opposite the Qutub Minar
Ph. : 91-11-3080 0300, (+)91-9953887818

Event Description : 
Nov 6, Tuesday
Event: Seun Kuti (Nigeria)
Genre: Afro-jazz
Seun Kuti is the youngest son of the famous Nigerian afro-beat musician Fela Kuti. Seun started learning to play saxophone when he was eight, which is also when he started taking piano lessons. Seun Kuti has been performing on stage since he was nine years old. He started his career as an opening act with his father’s band, Egypt 80. And he still performs today with the same band. Apart from the new young bass player Kayode, Seun is probably the youngest person on stage. 
Nov 7, Wednesday
Event: Tarun Balani Collective album launch feat. jazz artistes from New York
Genre: jazz
Tarun Balani is a magnetic drummer, percussionist, composer and a music educator from New Delhi, India. He has worked as a drummer for bands like, Advaita, Artistes Unlimited and has been the first call drummer for artistes like Faridkot, Ujwal Nagar, Suhail Khan, Aditya Balani, Sharik Hasan, NoJazz(France) and Cyrille Amee (USA). Apart from being a sideman Tarun also leads his own group, the Tarun Balani Collective. 
Balani brings together a collective of artistes/musicians aspiring to create a sound palette beyond limitations. The music of the collective represents Tarun's vision as a composer, drawing from a world of influences, finding its expression in the modern jazz idiom. Tarun holds a bachelor's degree in music from the prestigious Berklee College of Music. Tarun developed his voice as a world jazz drummer playing for the Berklee Global Jazz Ensemble where he studied and shared the stage with artistes like Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, Joe lovano, Goerge Garzone, Ron Carter, among others.  
He is also the creative director at Global Music Institute. Global Music Institute brings a distinctive and modern approach to music education in India. Their curriculum is comprehensive in its true sense, with an in-depth study of Indian Classical and Folk music, along with a broad range of musical genres including Jazz, Rock, Pop, Blues, Western Classical, and World Music.
Nov 8, Thursday
Event: Papon & the East India Company
Genre: Folk/rock
Angaraag Mahanta known as Papon is a singer, composer and record producer. Born to music duo and legends of Assamese music, Archana Mahanta and Khagen Mahanta, he was introduced to music early on in his childhood. His first language is Assamese and he also sings in Hindi and Bengali. His initial training was in Indian Classical and devotional and folk music. He learnt vocals primarily but also plays the khol, tabla, guitar, and harmonium. 
His music genres are ambient electronic, acoustic folk and new age Indian Classical music and has been identified as having traces of pantatonic Mongoloid notes, local river song influences and ghazals.
Nov 9, Friday
Event: METAL NIGHT feat. Undying Inc & Phobia  
Undying Inc produced the most brutal Indian metal album till date a couple of years ago. Their live shows are full of insane energy and one can't think of any other band to play the first metal night in Delhi. Supporting them are young guns Phobia who are a tight metalcore band. Come, headbang all the way at blueFROG Delhi's first ever metal onslaught!
Nov 10, Saturday
Title: Oz Comedy Festival Day 1 followed by Piatto (Italy)
Genre: Standup comedy, techno
Oz Comedy Fest: 
Some of Australia’s favourite comedians from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival are heading to India as part of Oz Fest - a celebration of Australian culture. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is Australia’s largest ticketed cultural event and the biggest comedy festival in the world outside Edinburgh. 
For the past 14 years, after the Festival closes, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow has hit the road to over 50 venues around Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. Now for the very first time it’s India’s turn to experience some of Australia’s best comedians. Featuring an all-star line up including Matt Okine, Harley Breen, Dave Callan, Cal Wilson, and Smart Casual (Roger David and Fletcher Jones), get ready to laugh off your perch!
Piatto:
The name "Piatto" stands for a combo - brothers Davide and Alessandro. Since his childhood Alessandro has been a fan of his brother's group called N.O.I.A. which is probably the first Italian electronic group, founded in 1978 by Davide Piatto and Bruno Magnani. In those years Alessandro became acquainted with Electronic Music and New Wave playing drum machines and synths. At the beginning of the 80's he produced demo tapes and started to play live performances with various groups. In the 80s he played punk DJ sets, then, later on, went more techno. 
Nov 11, Sunday
Title: Oz Comedy Festival Day 2
Genre: Standup comedy 
Oz Comedy Fest: 
Some of Australia’s favourite comedians from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival are heading to India as part of Oz Fest - a celebration of Australian culture. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is Australia’s largest ticketed cultural event and the biggest comedy festival in the world outside Edinburgh. 
For the past 14 years, after the Festival closes, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow has hit the road to over 50 venues around Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. Now for the very first time it’s India’s turn to experience some of Australia’s best comedians. Featuring an all-star line up including Matt Okine, Harley Breen, Dave Callan, Cal Wilson, and Smart Casual (Roger David and Fletcher Jones), get ready to laugh off your perch!

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