Strings and Songs: Women in Hindustani Music and Their Sonic Stories

 Strings and Songs: Women in Hindustani music and their Sonic Stories is  a mini festival focusing on women string players and a guest vocalist performing Hindustani music. Participating artists and student artists span multiple generations and continents (not excluding males). Opened by students of the Sangeet Millennium Music Academy and Ustad Tari Khan School of Music, featured performers will include DFW-based Satarupa Basak Mandal on the lesser-known bowed instrument esraj; Sadaf Munshi performing rare Kashmiri songs on the Persian hammered dulcimer santur; acclaimed  Kolkata, India, based vocalist Sohini Mojumdar performing light-classical selections in Hindi and Urdu; celebrated New York City-based Camila Celin performing on sarode; and Dallas’s own versatile sitarist and teaching artist  Amie Maciszewski. Beloved Frisco-based tabla player and instructor Shantanu Bhattacharya will accompany on tabla.  Celin and Maciszewski will present a duet (jugalbandhi) on sarode and sitar, particularly popular among exponents of the Maihar Gharana (stylistic lineage of which they both represent), but very rarely performed by women.