“Music Around the World”
with Hermitage Fellow Kavita Shah
Presented in partnership with The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Thursday, April 21 at 6pm
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art “Under the Banyans” (entrance at 5401 Bay Shore Rd, Sarasota, FL 34243)
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Registration is required. $5 per person.
Hermitage Fellow Kavita Shah’s music “reflects the insatiably curious mind of an ethnographer, the soul of a poet, and the eye of a painter” (Owen McNally, WNPR). Having traveled the world and performed throughout six continents, her music reflects each journey as it continuously explores new possibilities in music and sound. Shah shares stripped-down selections from her beautiful and transporting works on the magnificent grounds of the Ringling Museum.
2022 Hermitage Fellow Kavita Shah is an award-winning vocalist, composer, researcher, and educator who makes work in deep engagement with the jazz tradition, while also addressing and advancing its global sensibilities. A lifelong New Yorker of Indian origin hailed for possessing an “amazing dexterity for musical languages” (NPR), Shah incorporates her ethnographic research on Brazilian, West African, and Indian traditions into her original music. Her projects include “Visions” (2014), co-produced by Lionel Loueke, “Folk Songs of Naboréa,” premiered at the Park Avenue Armory in 2017, and “Interplay” (2018) in duo with François Moutin, which was nominated for France’s Victoires de la Musique for Jazz Album of the Year. Shah regularly performs her music at major concert halls, festivals, and clubs on six continents. She holds a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Harvard and a Master’s in Jazz Voice from Manhattan School of Music.