Cultural events

This page lists 27 cultural events I attended, filtered by Indian. Movies are listed on my films page, not here. Cities are in California, except as noted.


I started keeping event data in the format used by this page in 2010, so data from 2010 to date is accurate. I started keeping appointment calendar data in .txt format in August 2005. I later extracted 2005-2009 event data ex post facto, so data for 2005 to 2009 is less complete and a bit less accurate. I have older pocket calendars and hard copies of event programs going back to 1963, but I have not yet scanned programs for years before 2010 or entered event data for most years before 2005.

See also: 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1971 1981 1982 1983 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1993 1994 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 All

Click on a heading below to sort the list accordingly. Click on a Program link to see the printed program for an event. Enter a search string (e.g., "Mahler", "Berkeley", "piano") below to filter the output.


Date Category Description Performers Venue City Works
06/10/07 @ 18:00 Indian Zakir Hussain Zakir Hussain, tabla Herbst San Francisco
10/13/07 @ 20:00 Indian Hindustani vocal Laxmi G. Tewari, vocals Ives Hall Rohnert Park
03/15/08 @ 17:30 Indian Sarangi Aruna Narayan, sarangi Jain Temple Milpitas
04/12/08 @ 20:00 Indian Hindustani vocal Laxmi Tewari, vocals Ives Hall Petaluma
01/24/09 @ 17:30 Indian Hindustani vocal Shubshangi Sakhalkar, vocals Jain Temple Milpitas
04/11/09 @ 20:00 Indian Santoor & tabla Zakir Hussain, tabla
Shivkumar Sharma, santoor
Marin Center San Rafael
10/03/09 @ 17:30 Indian Slide guitar Debashish Bhattacharya, slide guitar Jain Temple Milpitas
01/09/10 @ 19:00 Indian Carnatic vocal Sidarth Sriram, vocal
Nagaraj Mandya, violin
Ganesh Ramanarayanan, mridangam
Sangati Center San Francisco
01/20/10 @ 20:00 Indian Haiti benefit Srinivas Reddy, sitar
Michael Lewis, tabla
Gautam Tejas Ganeshan, vocal
Ganesh Ramanarayanan, mridangam
Sangati Center San Francisco
02/28/10 @ 10:00 Indian Morning ragas Srinivas Reddy, sitar
Sameer Gupta, tabla
Sangati Center San Francisco
04/30/10 @ 20:00 Indian Sursingar recital Joydeep Ghosh, sursingar
Subhen Chatterjee, tabla
Sangati Center San Francisco
06/05/10 @ 17:30 Indian Dhrupad vocals Gundecha Brothers, vocal Jain Temple Milpitas
11/06/10 @ 17:30 Indian Timeless Rhythms Pandit Jasraj, vocal Foothill College Los Altos Program
09/17/11 @ 17:30 Indian Hindustani vocals Ritesh Mishra, vocal
Rajnish Mishra, vocal
Subhen Chatterjee, tabla
Sanatan Goswami, harmonium
Jain Temple Milpitas Khayals & bhajans
10/07/11 @ 20:00 Indian Sitar recital Ravi Shankar, sitar
Tanmoy Bose, tabla
Ravichandra Kulur, flute
Samir Chatterjee, tabla
Davies San Francisco Program Evening ragas
04/28/12 @ 16:30 Indian Dhrupad vocals Gundecha Brothers, vocal Shirdi Sai Parivar Milpitas Program Raga Multani
Compositions
05/05/12 @ 20:00 Indian Bansuri recital G. S. Sachev, bansuri
Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla
Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco Program Raga Yaman Kalyan
Raga Kafi
Evening raga
03/16/13 @ 10:00 Indian Hindustani vocal Anand Bhate, vocal
Bharat Kamat, tabla
Suyog Kundalkar, harmonium
Jain Temple Milpitas Program Raga Miyan ki Todi
Raga Lalit-Bhatiyar
Morning ragas
11/02/13 @ 17:30 Indian Slide guitar Debashish Bhattacharya, slide guitar
Arup Chatterjee, tabla
Shirdi Sai Parivar Milpitas Program Raga Kedar
Raga Desh
05/02/14 @ 20:00 Indian Sitar recital Shujaat Khan, sitar Nourse San Francisco Program Raga Yamani
04/18/15 @ 13:00 Indian Ali Akbar Khan birthday tribute Arjun Verma, sitar
Nilan Chaudhuri, tabla
New Maihar Band
Mahesh Kale, vocal
Alam Khan, sarod
AACM San Rafael Program
04/15/17 @ 17:00 Indian Ali Akbar Khan birthday tribute Debashish Bhattachaya, slide guitar
Rita Sahai, vocal
Alam Khan, sarod
Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla
Cowell San Francisco Program
04/30/17 @ 17:00 Indian Guitar recital Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, mohan veena
Subhen Chatterjee, tabla
Jain Temple Milpitas Program
07/18/17 @ 19:15 Sports SF Giants baseball Indians vs. Giants AT&T Park San Francisco
07/13/18 @ 21:00 Indian Sufi vocal recital Sukhawat Ali Khan, vocals Bird & Beckett San Francisco
10/27/18 @ 19:30 Indian Vocal/sitar recital Manasi Majumdar, vocal
Tejendra Majumdar, sitar
Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla
AACM San Rafael Program
04/13/19 @ 14:00 Indian Ali Akbar Khan birthday tribute T.H. Subash Chandran, ghatam & konnakol
Ganesh Kumar, kanjira
Manik Khan, sarod
Arjun Verma, sitar
Shrinivas Joshi, vocal
Alam Khan, sarod
Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla
Old First Church San Francisco Program