Music & Conversation with Umayalpuram Mali, mridangist

The Kessinger Family Fund for Asian Performing Arts presents Music & Conversation with South Indian (Carnatic) music expert Umayalpuram Mali, performing on the South Indian Mridangam and Konakkol. 

In South Indian classical Carnatic music, rhythmic concepts are complex and deployed in infinitely creative ways.  Along with percussion instruments, there is a highly developed art of vocally reciting rhythms, known as konakkol. Umayalpuram Mali is a master of the mridangam, a double-headed South Indian drum, and konakkol. In this Music and Conversation hour, Mali will explain the building blocks of South Indian rhythmic concepts through konakkol, demonstrate how they can be put together, and perform an extended solo improvisation on the mridangam.  

This concert will be held in the Michael Jaharis Recital Hall and is free and open to the public.It will also be presented via live stream at this link: https://hav.to/jaj

For more information: hc-concerts@haverford.edu