October 19-November 16, 2001 Festival of Music and Dance from India Sponsored by the UCSD Music Department and the Center for World Music Friday, October 19, 2001 An Evening of North Indian Classical Music featuring: Arup Chattopadhyay, Tabla Solo Tarun Bhattacharya, Santoor Recital Arup Chattopadhyay, Tabla. Pre-Concert Discussion 6:30 p.m. , Concert at 8:00 p.m. Mandeville Auditorium, UCSD. Friday, November 2, 2001 An Evening of North Indian Classical Vocal Music featuring Shweta Jhaveri, 8:00 p.m. Erickson Hall in Mandeville, UCSD. Saturday, October 20, 2001 An Evening of North Indian Classical Music featuring: Lakshmi Shankar, Vocal Recital, Arup Chattopadhyay, Tabla Kartik Seshadri, Sitar Recital Arup Chattopadhyay, Tabla. Pre-Concert Discussion 6:30 p.m., Concert at 8:00 p.m. Mandeville Auditorium, UCSD. Friday, November 16, 2001 Special benefit concert for 9/11 attack victims An Evening of Odissi Dance featuring The Patnaik Sisters, 8:00 p.m., The Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla, California.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2001

Ichikawa Chikujo, master of the Japanese Tsugaru Shamisen with her 15 member ensemble of musicians and dancers. Ichikawa is Japan's last great master of the Tsugaru Shamisen or 3 stringed lute and enjoys the status of "living national treasure" in her country. 8pm Neurosciences Institute. Click here for details.

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Friday, July 20, 2001

Master of Persian Sufi music Mohammad Reza Lotfi with Houman Pourmehdi in a rare southern California appearance. Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla. Click here for details.

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Saturday, May 12, 2001

Traditional Performing Arts of South India, featuring Nirmala Sundararajan and Subhashini Parthasarthy, and Lalitha Srinivasan and Group, Mount Carmel High School, San Diego

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Friday, April 13, 2001

Persian Contemporary Classical Music by The Dastan Ensemble, featuring Hamid Motebassan, tar and setar; Hossein Behroozi-Nia, barbat; and Pejman Haddadi, tombak and daf, Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla.

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Saturday, April 7, 2001

Prasant D. Radhakrishnan plays South Indian classical music on saxophone in aid of India earthquake relief, Rancho Bernardo High School.

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Sunday, March 18, 2001

Valya Balkanska with Petar Yanev, featuring Gajda.Valya, known as "the cosmic voice of Bulgaria" for her voice which hurtles through the cosmos on the Voyager spacecraft recordings.

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Sunday, March 4,