upcoming 2009 concerts:

“PASSAGE TO INDIA”

Strings and Rhythms of North India

World premiere of ‘Yoga’ video

 Grammy-nominated sitar exponent Gaurav Mazumdar joins Vineet Vyas and vocal/dance artist Bageshree Vaze for an exciting evening at Lula Lounge, in Toronto on November 1, 2009, 7:00 p.m.

events archive:

Sept.5th Tabla solo - tabla soul - Toronto

Aug.14th - !st Annual Pt. Kishan Maharaj Jayanti Utsav - Toronto: Tabla solo by Vineet Vyas and Mandolin recital by Sri Snehasish Mozumder

Aug.15th - Hamilton concert with Snehasish Mozumder - Mandolin

Aug. 9th - Music in the Garden with Bageshree Vaze- Harbourfront -Toronto

Aug. 3rd - Westben Barn Theatre - Passage to India

Aug. 2nd - Lula Lounge - Toronto - Passage to India

Aug. 1st - Collingwood Music Festival - Collingwood - Passage to India

June 28th - Burnamthorpe Library Theatre, Mississauga

June 21st - Westben Barn Theatre

June 20th - Kitchener - Waterloo Multicultural Festival

May 30th 2009:Halifax, NS concert with Pt Ramesh Misra - Sarangi, solo and Kathak dance with Bageshree Vaze
May 31st 2009:St. John's NL concert with Pt Ramesh Misra - Sarangi, solo and Kathak dance with Bageshree Vaze

March 13th,2009 with Shashank -Huntsville, Alabama

Mar. 9th,2009 with Pt Rajan and Sajan Misra - New Delhi

2008

May 24th - Niagara Folk Arts Festival - with Bageshree Vaze

May 4th - Toronto with Bageshree Vaze and Steve Oda at Harbourfront Studio Theatre. See Events

Apr.5th - Toronto with Us. Shahid Parvez

Mar.15th - Calgary with Sri Steve Oda

Mar.4th - Benares - Mahashivratri Mahotsav with Sri Ajay Pohankar

Feb.26th - Dehradhun with Kartik Seshadri

Feb.24th - New Delhi at Ravi Shankar Centre with Kartik Seshadri

Feb.20th - Jaipur with Kartik Seshadri

Jan. 30th - Mumbai with Bageshree Vaze

Jan. 11, 2008: Ahmedabad - Saptak with Ritesh and Rajnish Mishra

Dec. 27th: Delhi at Kamani Auditorium with Satish Vyas at Chatur Lal Memorial Festival

Dec. 26th: Kochi with Us. Amjad Ali Khan

BAGESHREE AND I WERE BLESSED WITH A BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL! KALASHREE WAS BORN JUNE 15TH 2007!

2007 CANADIAN DATES

Nov 24th, 2007: Montreal

Bageshree returns to the stage @ Walter Hall, University of Toronto: Sept.27th, 2007

'Tarana' CD RELEASE CONCERT: NOV 18TH, 2007

Tour dates with with Ustad Shahid Parvez - sitar:

15th Sept -Montreal

28th Sept - Thunder Bay

21st Oct - Ottawa

27th Oct - Halifax

28th Oct - St. John's

6th Oct - Calgary with Hemant Panwar - Kathak

2nd June- Halifax, NS

3rd June- St. John's, NL

8th June- Ottawa, ON

with Pt. Satish Vyas- Santoor

6th May with Us.Amjad Ali Khan and sons

JAN 2007 TAALWORKS ALBUM RELEASED IN INDIA BY TIMES MUSIC LTD.

Jan 8, 2007 : NRI PRAVASI BHARTIYA DIWAS WITH USTAD AMJAD ALI KHAN AND SONS

Jan 28, 2007 : BENARES -GANESH KAKSH TABLA SOLO

Jan 30, 2007 : NEW DELHI WITH PT RAJAN AND PT SAJAN MISRA

Feb 7, 2007 : NEW DELHI WITH SAEED ZAFAR KHAN

Feb 15, 2007 : NEW DELHI WITH AMAAN AND AYAAN ALI KHAN

Feb 20, 2007 : NEW DELHI, PLANET M APPEARANCE - TAALWORKS CD

Feb 21/22, 2007 : AGRA WITH RITESH AND RAJNISH MISRA

Feb 23, 2007 : ALLAHABAD WITH KALA RAMNATH

Feb 26, 2007: NEW DELHI AT RAVI SHANKAR CENTRE WITH PARTHO SARATHI

Feb, 27, 2007 : NEW DELHI - TRIVENI THEATRE CD RELEASE, CHIEF GUEST USTAD AMJAD ALI KHAN

2006 INDIA TOUR...

10TH Dec.: SAVAI GANDHARVE FESTIVAL, PUNE with Ustad AMJAD ALI KHAN

8th Dec: Jaipur with Ustad AMJAD ALI KHAN AND SONS

Oct. 13th, 2006 concert NCPA Theatre, Mumbai

Sept 28th, 2006 performance with Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan: New Delhi

2006 JAPAN TOUR...

17th Nov: Canadian Embassy, Tokyo

18th Nov: Tokyo

19th Nov: Yokohama

22nd Nov: Kobe

23rd Nov: Kyoto

24th Nov: Okayama

25th Nov: Tokyo

26th Nov: Tokyo

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Canada’s “New-Generation” Tabla Talent

Brings Elating North Indian Drums to Center Stage

with Breakthrough CD “Taalworks”

Born into a family of traditional musicians and initiated into Hindustani classical music at the age of five, Vineet Vyas is one of Canada’s rising “new-generation” musical talents. A disciple of the legendary Tabla maestro, Pandit Kishan Maharaj, Vyas has performed along side India's eminent classical artists such as Us. Amjad Ali Khan, Pt Rajan, Sajan Mishra, Us.Shahid Parvez, Us. Aashish Khan, Dr. L. Subramaniam and Kala Ramnath.

Now, with his industry anticipated debut CD  “TAALWORKS” meaning rhythm-works, audiences have the opportunity to enjoy and explore the musicality, spontaneity, and creativity Vineet Vyas has become known for on international stages. Featuring North Indian tabla solo compositions combined with the melodic instrumentation of the cello, flute, piano, sarod, and sarangi “TAALWORKS” presents original tracks such as In the Beginning (Uthaan) inspired by the Benares gharana of tabla playing and Bring on the Rain depicting the many moods of the Indian monsoon season.  “As a young boy studying tabla in Benares, I often walked along the ghats of the Ganga River where so many Hindus come to wash away their sins” explains Vyas. “One of my favorite tracks, Benares Dawns on Me tells of the clamor of street sellers, sadhus, local inhabitants and foreigners while being embraced by the underlying peace or ‘shanti’ of the Ganga River...the arrangement itself weaves everyday commotion into a journey of the mystically profound”

From compositional adaptations of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and Saint Saëns’ Flight of the Swan to In the Darbar (Rela, Upaj, Tukre) patterned in ‘Dhire Dhire Kite Taka’ and recitation styles, “TAALWORKS” enchants and enlightens new fans and devoted tabla enthusiasts alike.  Bringing tabla to center stage, join Vineet Vyas at 7:30pm on Thursday November 10^th to celebrate the launch of  “TAALWORKS” and hear one of Canada’s “new-generation” artists rising on international circuits.

 “it has  been my vision with this album to bring to the forefront tabla as a solo instrument and provide audiences with a chance to experience their beauty, range, repertoire and adaptability. I am thrilled to share with you the tabla’s vast potential and depth, woven into new and inspiring melodic textures”   - Vineet Vyas