Lula World: Bollywood Fever!
Co-presented
by Small World Music Society, 100% of proceeds from Bollywood Fever
will go to MAA Foundation's first scholarship fund for a slum in
Chittagong, Bangladesh. It will initially support the costs of sending
10 children to school. For more information about scholarship set-up,
please click here.
Event Details
Advance tickets: Harbourfront Centre Box Office at 416-973-4000, Shalamar (391 Roncesvalles Ave @ 416-588-9877), or at TajMahal Videos (1406 Gerrard St. E. @ 416 463 6552).
Dinner and show tickets: call Lula Lounge at 416-588-0307 to reserve your table.
Wednesday, May 3 @ Lula Lounge
Dinner @ 7:00 PM, concert @ 8:15 PM
$15 advance, $20 @ the door, $55 for dinner + show
Reservations guarantee best seating -- call 416-588-0307 to reserve your dinner table.
Performers
- Gurpreet Chana
- TC Raas Band
- Bollywood Dance Pak
- Sundar Viswanathan
- Devika Mathur
- DJ Medicine Man (CIUT 89.5)
Event Description
This special evening opens the 10-day long Lula World Festival, one of Toronto's premiere celebrations of world music and its unique role as a catalyst for change and social justice. It is also the first night of the South Asian Music Festival, celebrating music from across the region in recognition of May being South Asian Heritage Month.
The MAA Foundation and our event partner Small World Music Society are thrilled to invite you to its first fundraiser, Bollywood Fever, a Bollywood-themed feast of the senses put forth by some of Toronto's most talented South Asian and global-groove friendly artists, artisans & musiciansOn May 3rd, doors open at 7 and the show commences at 8:00pm.
About the Artists
Gurpreet Chana
The exquisite music of Gurpreet Chana is an expression of the cultural diversity he experienced growing up in a multicultural society, based on the rhythmic patterns of the tabla and merging them with all genres of music. His passion for percussion and world beats also includes the djembe, congas, dhol, zarb, doumbek, daf, and more or less anything he can get his hands on.Sundar Viswanathan
Raised in Sudbury with Tamil South Indian roots, Sundar Viswanathan is one of the most diversely-talented musicians in Toronto. Already known as a world-class saxophonist, Sundar's profiles as a composer, multi-reed instrumentalist and vocalist have steadily increased of late. He has performed with a who's who of leading Indo-Canadian and American musicians & ensembles such as Rez Abbasi, Juno-winner Kiran Ahluwahlia, Autorickshaw, Ragaffaire, and Tasa; as well as with jazz legends such as Wynton Marsalis, Charles Tolliver, Sun Ra and Donald Byrd.Fortunately and appropriately for this occasion, Sundar is also a professor at York University whose classes include The Music of Bollywood!
