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ravi padmanabha
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He is a world multi-instrumentalist
Ravi Padmanabha is a multi instrumentalist/improviser/composer specializing in percussion. He has studied tabla in India with Pandit Sharda Sahai and Pandit Samar Saha. He also plays the Indian banjo-keyboard and has studied sarangi with Pandit Ramesh Misra. Ravi has performed on drum set for 25 years and got his early training at Buffalo’s historic Colored Musicians Club. Since then he had spent 6 years in NYC and has recently returned to Buffalo. Ravi has performed with William Parker, Robert Dick, Daniel Carter,Cooper-Moore, Junni booth Paul Flaherty, Douglas Ewart, Butch Morris, Ustad Sabir Khan, and many others. In 2008 Ravi and Steve Baczkowski released “DOH TALA” with flute maestro Robert Dick. He regularly performs with his brothers in “Family FUNKtion & the Sitar Jams” and in a duo with Steve Baczkowski. He has performed at International Music festivals in Scotland, Canada and the United States. Ravi currently leads his own quartet called “My Nada Brahma”.
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This page was last updated on 2014-07-02.
