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Travel Day 890 – Kolkata, INDIA Today we managed to get out of the house a little bit earlier and our main goal of the day was to see a bit of the colonial center of Kolkata… Well, actually when we sat down in the morning to make a to-do list for the next couple […]
Travel Day 889 – Kolkata, INDIA It was the first full Arrival Day in India for my new-found wife and we obviously tried to take it a bit easy in the beginning… After her arrival yesterday evening we only went for a short stroll around the block and to a local chai shop, but today […]
Travel Day 888 – Kolkata, INDIA Today was a transitional day. On the one hand my one month with my Tabla Guru was over, but on the other my girlfriend was arriving today which meant that I would officially have a wife in India for the next one month to come… In all my writings […]
Travel Day 887 – Kolkata, INDIA This day felt at first a little bit empty due to the fact that it was my first day in India without my teacher and without any program, but on the other hand it was the day of the Zakir Hussain concert in Kolkata… : ) Since the very first day that […]
Travel Day 886 – Kolkata, INDIA Today was the big day of the final Tablaphilia concert and this time it was set to be on stage in the Indian music capital Kolkata… The day actually started as all the other concert days with the only benefit that we didn’t have to be at the meeting […]
Travel Day 885 – Kolkata, INDIA Tomorrow the final Tablaphilia concert is scheduled to be in Kokata, so today was the very last chance for the final rehearsal… Unfortunately the only room available was the little classroom of my teacher and everybody had to fit in there to make the rehearsal work. For the final […]
Travel Day 884 – Kolkata, INDIA Today was one last and final day of Tabla class with my teacher and from now on I would seriously have to figure out how to continue… It was funny because the last two days my teacher had finally taken the time to actually sit down with me and […]
Travel Day 883 – Kolkata, INDIA It was once more back to the old schedule again, even if only for a couple of days, but I had Tabla classes in the morning again… After many days of rehearsals and trips to the countryside for Indian classical music concerts, now I was sitting back in the […]
Travel Day 882 – Kolkata and Berhampore, INDIA While the concert yesterday was an amazing experience, the entire organization and planning was something else… We had left Kolkata at 6.30am in the morning and considering loading the bus and reaching the departure point, people must have left their houses as early as 5am to be […]
Travel Day 881 – Kolkata and Berhampore, INDIA It was one of those moments. I was looking up and into the blinding spot light that was warming my face. I was wearing a salmon colored kurta and found myself on stage and in the middle of a Tabla performance in a small town in India. […]
Travel Day 880 – Kolkata, INDIA After one day of no concert, it was obviously time for another Indian classical concert, but time in a huge temple in Ballygunge, Kolkata… The morning was actually pretty uneventful and I just used my time for some Tabla practice on the roof, but after lunch I was off to […]
Travel Day 879 – Kolkata, INDIA After yesterdays great Tablaphilia performance and concert in Burdwan, today was starting as a slow day while sleeping until noon… This was mainly due to the lack of organization or rather the lack of logic during the return of the trip. Once the concert was over and we had […]
Travel Day 878 – Kolkata and Burdwan, INDIA Finally the day for the first Tablaphilia concert had arrived and it was scheduled to be the final act of a two-day concert series in Burdwan… But first the day started with a late morning meeting by Kalighat at the rehearsal location to pick up all the […]