Jugalbandi: Pankaj Mishra & Andrew Kay

Raag-Mala Toronto in partnership with Small World Music
is proud to present

a Jugalbandi by

Pankaj Mishra

&

Andrew Kay

with Abbas Janmohamed on Tabla

Monday September 13^th, 2021 at 7pm EDT

FREE VIRTUAL EVENT

Event Access: Raag-Mala Toronto Youtube Premiere AND on Raag-Mala Toronto’s Facebook Page

Recorded live at the Small World Centre, this performance provides an immersion into Indian Classical Music and showcases a Jugalbandi by two outstanding presenters.

Pankaj Mishra, who recently made Toronto his permanent home, comes from a long line of musicians, and began learning music at an early age. His sensitive style of playing and interpretation is admired and sought after by a wide range of musicians. He has performed both as a soloist and an accompanist at prestigious festivals all across the globe.

Andrew Kay is an acclaimed Saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist musician from Toronto, known for his captivating performances in the genres of Indo-Jazz, World Music, Indian Classical Raga Music, Contemporary Jazz and Improvised Music. He is among one of the first musicians in the world to perform Northern Indian Classical music on the Saxophone and Himalayan Singing Bowls.

Abbas Janmohamed was born in Scarborough, and brought up in Calgary, where he began learning tabla at a young age. A recipient of an Arts Fellowship award from the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, he spent time in India pursuing his study of classical tabla. He is a student of Ustad Allarakha’s senior disciple, Shri Prafulla Athalye.

Presented as a part of 25 for 25 – Small World Music’s 25th Anniversary Program