Barbara B. Smith World Music Concert Series

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With our World Music Series, you can travel around the globe—without ever leaving Rochester!

Concerts originally scheduled for Kilbourn Hall this fall are being relocated. Please check back for updated information on these performances.

 

 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
Raga Rendezvous
Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi
and Kala Ramnath, violin duo

Two of India’s most renowned violinists, legends of Carnatic (North Indian) music, join forces in a rich musical mélange.

Hatch Recital Hall - 8 PM

 

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2013
Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal

Sissoko is a virtuoso on the Kora, a lute-harp played in Mali; Segal is a French trip-hop cellist. Together they have created a refined, chamber music approach to cross-cultural music that is “hypnotic, energizing, always engaging” (PopMatters)

Kilbourn Hall – 8 PM

 

Tu esday , April 2, 2013
Cimarrón

The seven-piece band Cimarrón is Colombia’s most accomplished llanera group– the rhythmic and virtuosic dance music of Los Llanos, people of Spanish, African, and Indigenous Indian background who live in the plains of Colombia and Venezuela.

Kilbourn Hall - 8 PM

 

Gamelan Lila Muni

MONDAY , APRIL 29, 2013
Gamelan Lila Muni

Enjoy the chiming, pounding, tingling sounds of Eastman’s pioneering gamelan ensemble in its annual spring performance.

Kilbourn Hall - 8 PM