MUSIC : Sufi Music Night by 'Chaar Yaar' group at American Center, 24, Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 6pm on 8th January 2016

Time : 6:00 pm Add to Calendar 08/01/2016 18:00 08/01/2016 20:00 Asia/Kolkata MUSIC : Sufi Music Night by 'Chaar Yaar' group Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/01/music-sufi-music-night-by-chaar-yaar.html American Center, 24, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi - 110001 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
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Venue : American Center, 24, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi - 110001
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Area : Kasturba Gandhi Marg Event

Event Description : The group Chaar Yaar came into existence in 2004. As the name suggests, it comprises four musicians – composer, vocalist and poet Madan Gopal Singh; guitarist and banjo player Deepak Castelino; sarod player Pritam Ghosal and multiple percussionist Gurmeet Singh.
Initially, Chaar Yaar traversed the path of Sufi texts dating back to the 12-13th century, beginning with Baba Farid and Rumi and ending with Khwaja Ghulam Farid of the late 19th century. The group then started looking at the cultural bridges across continents. This involved experimenting with songs and poetry spread across various cultures globally and different timelines. This led to the incorporation of music and poetry as diverse as that of Brecht, Lorca, Tagore, Puran Singh,Hikmet, Hamzatov, Faiz, Nagarjun as well as the creation of musical bridges; to give one example, between Rumi, John Lennon, Kabir and Bulle Shah in the same song. This also saw the group musically following original translations by Madan Gopal Singh. An Indigenous Baramaah in Punjabi, for example, could now be sung with Simon and Garfunkel’s canticle “Scarborough Fair’; John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ as ‘Socho Zara’; or Beatles ‘Because’ with Iqbal’s ‘Ye Gumbad-e-Minai’.
The project has since continued to grow and the group has travelled all over the world many times, performing with many internationally celebrated groups such as All Star Bang on a Can of New York; the neo-Jazz vocalist Theo Bleckmann; David Hykes’ Harmonic Choir and countless more.

Music : soundcloud.com/chaar-yaar-1

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