Kiran Ahluwalia - Feb 23 - 8pm

Christ Church Cathedral
690 Burrard Street

$25/23 Students, Seniors, Jazz Friends

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Presented by Vancouver's Coastal Jazz & Blues Society in partnership with the
Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad

"She has her eyes set on a hybrid music that mingles everything from Irish folk to bhangra….Ahluwalia gracefully wrests her way around notes like a cobra wrapping itself around an unsuspecting neck.”—Time Out Chicago

A highly distinctive vocalist, Indian-born, Toronto-raised Kiran Ahluwalia creates a vibrant twenty-first century sound from an ancient rule-bound song form. The Juno Award winner is considered one of North America’s great interpreters of ghazal—the Indian and Pakistani sung poetry about unrequited love.

Kiran has developed a repertoire of intriguing songs by seeking out Urdu poets in the Indian diaspora and setting their lyrics to music. The result is a deeply sensuous and beautiful collection of spellbinding, boundary-pushing ghazals and fun-loving Punjabi folk songs, which she delivers in her seductive Bollywood voice using contemporary instruments and arrangements.

Casting her unique ghazal style as its underpinning, Ahluwalia’s latest recording, Wanderlust (Times Square/4Q Records), also draws on the melancholic Portuguese song form fado, African grooves, jazz, and more. This musical wanderer continues to build a bridge across eras, continents, and cultures. With Rez Abbasi guitar, Nikku Nayar bass, Gurpreet Channa tablas, Ashok Bidaye harmonium.

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