Thursday, October 25
Gypsy Music
Musafir
LAXSON AUDITORIUM | 7:30 p.m.
$18 Adult | $16 Senior | $12 Student/Child
"They have played at football and hockey world cups and shared the stage with Bob Marley. A group of bandwallahs, kalbelia dancers and fakirs from Rajasthan are the toast of Europe." — Indian Express
Musafir ("Traveler" in Farsi) hails from northwest India and has dazzled European audiences with its energetic versions of Indian folk and popular music, acrobatics, and feats of physical endurance. Musafir's original compositions combine Indian rural folk music with influences from Muslim devotional music, Indian film music, Arab popular music, and North Indian classical music. From an ancient tradition of wandering artists who went from village to village living as snake charmers, performing dances whose contortions evoke the movement of the dancing cobra — the Musafir musicians are joined by traditional Sapera dancers and high-flying Fakir acrobatics.
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