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The Rāginī Festival
Umber Majeed: JoyTech x Enayet
March 16, 2025
Please join us for an opening celebration of the Queens Museum’s Spring 2025 exhibitions: Abang-guard: Makibaka and Umber Majeed: J
Y TECH.
The afternoon celebration will include artist led exhibition walkthroughs, performances, and a reception. RSVP here.
Schedule:
– 2:15pm: Ribbon cutting performance and Makibaka walkthrough with Abang-guard (Maureen Catbagan + Jevijoe Vitug)
– 3pm: JOY TECH walkthrough with Umber Majeed
– 3:30pm: DJ set by Zara Dekho presented by Brooklyn Raga Massive: Ragini Festival in conjunction with Umber Majeed: JOY TECH.
Zara Dekho is a DJ and curator based in Brooklyn, born, and raised in Karachi, Pakistan. She is the co-runner of a prominent Brooklyn dance party, Rare Frequency Transmissions and co-founder of Tarka, a project and event series celebrating diasporas through food, music, performances, and arts. Zara Dekho’s sets exhibit a versatility impacted by time and space, spanning genres such as house, techno, bass, electro while paying homage to sounds of her South Asian roots.
– 4:30 to 5pm: Reception with food and drinks for purchase in the Unisphere Cafe by The August Tree
Katha & the Mothers of Tabla
March 14, 2025
Ragini
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Pandit Rajeev Taranath is one of India's most distinguished exponents of the sarod. A top disciple of the legendary late Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, he is the recipient of many honors including India's highest government award in the arts, the esteemed Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2000.
Hailed a prodigy in Hindustani vocal music, he had been earlier trained by his father Pandit Taranath and other eminent musicians and was a concert and radio artist before he was twenty. Rajeev Taranath's distinctive musicianship demonstrates striking imaginative power, technical excellence and emotional range. He is respected for the clarity of musical understanding which he brings to the unfolding of a raga and the beauty of the tone he evokes from the sarod.
Recent international performances include such venues as the Oberlin Conservatory, the Sydney Opera House, The Smithsonian Institution (Wash DC), Theatre De Ville (Paris), Ruben Museum (NY) and Tropeninstitut (Netherlands) among others.
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