Musical Evening with Dr Allyn Miner, Radha Gopinath das Marinelli and Thomas Flanagan December 2, 2010

Allyn Miner has been playing the sitar since 1970. Her sitar style reflects her training and experience in India and the aesthetic influence of her teacher, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. She is Senior Lecturer in Indian Music in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Radha Gopinath das Marinelli spontaneously began playing the Bengali mridanga at the age of two and was leading kirtan and bhajan as a young child. He has studied the tabla with Lenny Seidman in Philadelphia, with legendary, Grammy award-winning, South Indian percussion and rhythm master T.H. Vikku Vinayakram and North Indian tabla maestro and World music icon Ustad Zakir Hussain. He is a founding member and co-composer of Philadelphia based World music trio, ONE.

Guitarist and sitarist Thomas Flanagan performs with World music trio, One, and has written music for dance, film, yoga and theatre.
Tickets: $15 in advance, $20 at door.
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