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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 […]
Travel Day 877 – Kolkata, INDIA Today was finally a resting day for me and for the first time since I had arrived in India, I could sleep-in and have an extended breakfast with my hostel mates… My teacher had left town already to prepare to tomorrows Tablaphilia concert and so I found myself for […]
Travel Day 876 – Kolkata, INDIA Today was unfortunately the last day in India for my Tabla brother I had been studying with, but at least we were up to something fun… First off we paid our Tabla teacher a short visit for a last little lesson and a fare-well for my friend. But afterwards […]
Travel Day 875 – Kolkata, INDIA We actually made it out of bed early enough to keep the resolution from yesterday and so we joined the morning Christmas mess at 8.30am… The funny thing was that this was Christmas day in a Hindu country and only very few shops actually seemed to acknowledge that Christmas […]
Travel Day 873 – Kolkata, INDIA It was day three of the Tablaphilia rehearsal, but the friendly owner of the Tabla store yesterday had invited me to come back in the morning because I would have the chance to learn how to build a Tabla from scratch… Since I had learned a trade myself and […]
Travel Day 873 – Kolkata, INDIA It was the second day of the Tablaphilia rehearsal and today we finally managed to see the bigger picture of the entire composition… But first the rehearsal started out almost equally as chaotic as it did yesterday. We had to change the overall seating arrangement, alternate some positions of […]
Travel Day 872 – Kolkata, INDIA It was a new day of a new routine and we started it quite early while meeting our teacher, helping to pack up all his Tablas and bringing them via taxi down to the rehearsal location by Kalighat… Once we arrived and unloaded all the Tablas, all the other […]
Travel Day 871 – Kolkata, INDIA It was hard to believe that today was already our last day of the usual Tabla routine, but it also gave room for something else to come instead… Actually, as we were told in our class, from now on we would be able to join the rehearsal classes for […]
Travel Day 870 – Kolkata, INDIA Today was another day of the usual Tabla routine, but since we got off class early, we went for a little exploration walk on the way home… This time we finally decided to explore the campus of Rabindra-Bharati-University which was close by and our main point of reference every […]