Celebrate Mother's Day with Sitar, Tabla, Dance, Poetry & Songs to welcome Spring!

Enjoy traditional and original music compositions based on classical Indian melodies including the raag Basant (Sanskrit name “vasant”), a raag associated with spring. Enjoy Ghalib’s poetry and music created specially for the season and rhythmic explorations including Teentaal, Jhaptaal, Ektaal and others.

Basant in Indian and Pakistani cultures is a time associated with spring festivities, kite-flying, music and dance. The raag Basant has special significance in the Hindu and Muslim traditions and is part of the Sikh holy scripture. The #SitarFusionMothersDay musical program seeks to evoke the joy and vibrancy associated with spring!

ARTISTS: Anwar Khurshid (sitar & vocals), Ravi Naimpally (tabla) and Genevieve Beaulieu (dance).

TICKETS: $20 - $35 at http://concert.sitarfusion.ca/

(Ticket sales NOT allowed at the venue due to City restrictions so please purchase tickets in advance online)

Liberal Party Fund Raiser Gala

Ticket Prices:

ADULT: $27 OLDER ADULT/YOUTH: $22

Theatre Eats >> Pre-Show Pub Night FREE Appetizers in the lobby, 7PM First come-first served. Entrance is with ticket to this show

Ticket Price: $23 Advance / $20 Seniors or Students / $26 Door (no addt'l fees)

Guitarist, singer and composer Paul DesLauriers is part of Canada's blues elite. He first made a name for himself in the 1990s as part of the group Black Cat Bone for which he was a founding member. A sought after collaborator, he has most notably accompanied Amanda Marshall, France D'Amour, Garou and Nicola Ciccone. In 2006, DesLauriers released the fiery blues-rock album Ripping Into Red. Three years later, he appeared at the Festival alongside singer Dawn Tyler Watson, with whom he recorded the album En duo. In 2010, DesLauriers produced Nos stars chantent le blues à Montréal, an album of blues standards covered by local artists. Three years later, he released two collaborative efforts: Southland, with Dawn Tylor Watson, and Enter the Gate, with the renowned sitar player Anwar Khurshid. The Paul DesLauriers Band came out in 2014.

Love is in the air! Celebrate Valentine's Day in musical style with Indian fine dining and a wine bar to accompany the fusion music provided by Anwar Khurshid (sitar), Rich Greenspoon (drums) and Rob Thaller (keyboards).

Get a headstart on your musical resolutions for 2015 with this intensive 9 hours Sitar & Indian Classical Music workshop focusing on building a strong foundation for self-practice and understanding the roadmap and milestones for the journey ahead. Intended for beginner to intermediate students interested in playing the sitar, singing or playing tabla accompanying the sitar.

DATES: - 3 sessions on Sundays (Jan 11, Jan 18 and Jan 25) from 10:30am to 1:30pm.

COURSE OUTLINE / REGISTRATION: http://www.sitarfusion.ca/SitarSchool

Get a headstart on your musical resolutions for 2015 with this intensive 9 hours Sitar & Indian Classical Music workshop focusing on building a strong foundation for self-practice and understanding the roadmap and milestones for the journey ahead. Intended for beginner to intermediate students interested in playing the sitar, singing or playing tabla accompanying the sitar.

DATES: - 3 sessions on Sundays (Jan 11, Jan 18 and Jan 25) from 10:30am to 1:30pm.

COURSE OUTLINE / REGISTRATION: http://www.sitarfusion.ca/SitarSchool

Get a headstart on your musical resolutions for 2015 with this intensive 9 hours Sitar & Indian Classical Music workshop focusing on building a strong foundation for self-practice and understanding the roadmap and milestones for the journey ahead. Intended for beginner to intermediate students interested in playing the sitar, singing or playing tabla accompanying the sitar.

DATES: - 3 sessions on Sundays (Jan 11, Jan 18 and Jan 25) from 10:30am to 1:30pm.

COURSE OUTLINE / REGISTRATION: http://www.sitarfusion.ca/SitarSchool

Festival finale performance with Sultans of String, bringing the 3 days festival to a close.

Avani, a collective of musicians from diverse genres come together for an electrifying performance of Indo-Jazz!

Part of the "Club Series" in the TD Toronto Jazz Festival, this event will feature Anwar Khurshid with Eric Boucher on keyboard, Neil Brathwaite on saxohone, Rich Greenspoon on drums and Waleed Abdulhamid on bass and vocals.

Double the art. Double the anticipation. Double the fun. The gallery’s annual fundraiser is Peel Region’s most exciting art party of the season!

Known for dizzying roots music jams, poly-rhythms and revved up riffs, the Sultans of String sound can't be pinned down -- it's Sable Island meets the Silk Road, with detours through the Gypsy-Jazz coffeehouses of Eastern Europe, next an East Coast Kitchen Party, then over to the bustling markets of Lebanon and India! This innovative collaboration with Anwar Khurshid's Sitar serves up a spicy musical passport that defies categorization.

5 creative musicians come together for a special double-bill concert featuring Indo-jazz and fiery world music! Ignite a winter evening with sizzling musical fusion and creative vibes.

Join Anwar Khurshid (sitar), Neil Brathwaite (saxophone), Waleed Kush (bass guitar), Eric Bouchair (keyboard) and Dave Bansraj Jr. (tabla) for a 2-part evening of exciting fusion and innovative creativity.

PROGRAM:

1) 8:00 pm - Songs by Anwar Khurshid in Raag Kirwani (sitar & tabla) featuring Bollywood classics & original compositions

2) 9:30 pm - World Music / Indo-jazz concert

Jazz FM91 will be broadcasting a radio Documentary Series chronicling the lives and careers of remarkable musicians from around the world whose search for their identities was challenged as a result of their decision to leave their homes and move to Canada. Tune into the documentary featuring Anwar at 4pm on Sunday, 03 November.