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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 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 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 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 […]