Shastriya Sangeet @ Konrad Café

 

Shastriya Sangeet is the classical music of India. It is a music that is mostly improvised, but steeped in tradition of Raag and Taal, frameworks of melody and rhythm.

 

Rahul Pophali is one of the most versatile tabla players in today’s younger generation. His journey with the tabla started at the age of seven and he has since then progressed to advanced training in the Punjab gharana style under Pt. Nishikant Barodekar, a senior disciple of Ustad Alla Rakha and Ustad Zakir Hussain.

K.G. Westman is a Swedish sitar player that every year is returning to the holy city of Varanasi to continue training under guidance of senior sitar master Pandit Rabindra Narayan Goswami.