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Pro Shows 2007 Global Rhythms Global Rhythms has been in the news lately with several collaborative exercises with AR Rahman, most recently at the Hollywood Bowl in July 2006. Global Rhythms is a combination of traditional and non-traditional music from all over the world. A concept conceived by Miami Alumnus Srinivas Krishnan in close collaboration with Pamela Fox, Pat Hernly and Jason Koontz in the year 1996, the project aims to integrate sounds from all over the world and create music that utilizes an eclectic blend of Middle Eastern, Caribbean, Indian, African, Brazilian, Latin, Australian, and Western instrumentation and their team has been invited as a result to Cornell, MIT, Harvard, Dartmouth, the Vatican, Hollywood Bowl to name a few. There are over 140 members within Global Rhythms today and what makes them unique is their ability to embrace every kind of music within their repertoire. This ensemble has performed in concert with over 50 guest artists from all over the world including Grammy winners Horacio Hernandez, Eguie Castrillo, and Glen Velez, mridangam vidwan Sri Umayalpuram Sivaraman from India, and over a year ago, they combined with Ghatam Karthick, Embar Kannan, Poongulam Subramaniam and Mandolin U.P. Raju (part of Heartbeat Ensemble). Global Rhythms benefits from the experiences of music professors Ethan Sperry and Roger Davis, its co-directors. Davis' experiences lie in the bass guitar and musical arrangements while Sperry specializes in vocals. The talent these instructors possess echoes in the unique and beautiful sound Global Rhythms plays for its audiences. But what makes Global Rhythms so unique is that they can give a whole one hour show focusing entirely on percussion or an hour show focusing on voice (they have a 100 piece choir). Earlier in August 2006, the US Consulate had honored AR Rahman and Srinivas Krishnan for their collaborative work through Global Rhythms over four years. Rahman's contribution is significant because it has allowed for the members of Global Rhythms to adventure and explore every kind of music and each show with Rahman has opened new doors for over 350 members of Global Rhythms over the four years. On January 25, 2007, IIT MADRAS will feature Global Rhythms that will feature a total of 18 artists who will present a whole range of music, catering to the needs of an Indian Audience. The concert will highlight percussion instruments and will aim at sowing a new seed of world music in Chennai. Five of the band members including Patrick Hernly, Jeff Queen, TJ Hartman and James Sparling were recently featured live in concert with AR Rahman and Sivamani in Mumbai over New Years Eve and their skills in a range of percussion traditions will certainly make for an attractive concert more so because they are now combining with some of the best artists from India that evening including Ghatam Karthick's team. The oboe, saxophone and the flute that are woodwind instruments will also be integral to the show and feature Carrie Hernly, Leigh Ann Woodard and Seetha Shivaswamy. Cleve Johnson who is a scholar in Carnatic Music will also be part of this team on the keyboard and a dance trio team of Suzanne Maier, Melissa Jungles and Tami Robinson will be part of a class act that will end the show that evening with music of Chennai's very own AR Rahman. -- best regrards Logesh A
