"Share Your Love with Baraka Moon"
Valentine's Day Concert
February 14, 2010

Baraka is the Sufi word for 'blessing'.  Baraka Moon bears the gift to transcend boundaries and unite us in our common humanity.  Leap into the fire of this magic music.  Season your soul, open your heart, dance, sing, and let your ears absorb the passion of an emerging, universal music full of love and respect for all peoples of the world.  Baraka Moon includes:  Sukhawat Ali Khan - Vocals, Harmonium; Stephen Kent - Didgeridoo, Percussion; and Geoffrey Gordon - Drums, Percussion, Vocal.  Meet the Artists 6:30-7 pm.  Concert is 7:30 - 9:30 pm in the Great Room.  Tickets are $20 per person, Advance Reservations, or $25 Gate or...

For Ticket Reservations or for more info call 917-991-4786.  Take your Love to Dinner before the show at Rene Restaurant at Tlaquepaque, seating at 5:30, limited availability.. phone 928-282-9225.

For Ticket Reservations Only or For More Info call 917-991-4786

Geoffrey Gordon, Multi-Ethnic Drums & Percussion, Keyboards, Piano, Vocals

Geoffrey Gordon is a world music pioneer.  He began studying tabla in 1976 with the great master Ustad Allarakha, and did his first major recording on ECM – a duo with guitarist David Torn released in 1986 as "Best Laid Plans". Geoffrey has performed on hit movie soundtracks, at Lincoln Center, on Broadway and in international thatre festivals with Julie Taymor (director of Across the Universe and Frida). In 2007 he performed his composition Inanna to a sold-out audience at the British Museum. He was the percussionist for the Pagan Love Orchestra on all their recordings from 1992-2004. Geoffrey has performed on CDs with Robbie Robertson, Elliot Goldenthal, R. Carlos Nakai, Gabrielle Roth, Stephen Kent, Ram Dass, Jai Uttal and Krishna Das, among many others. He has taught on the faculties of Sarah Lawrence College, CCNY, Omega and Esalen. He produced Shiva Rea's CD Yoga Trance Dance, Walela's Unbearable Love, and The Hanuman Chaleesa: Songs in Praise of Hanuman.  Visit www.geoffreygordon.com
 

Stephen Kent, Didjeridu, Percussion, Strings

Stephen Kent, didjeridu master and founder of the groups Trance Mission, Lights in a Fat City, Beasts of Paradise, and Furious Pig, has made five solo CDs and performed on many other releases, including Oil & Water and Living Labyrinths. His collaborations include artists as diverse as Tuvan Throat-singers Chirgilchin, Korean Samulnori Drummers, frame-drum wizard Glen Velez, Japanese Taiko luminary Leonard Eto, Markus James and the Wassonrai, flutist Paul Horn, and Airto Moreira. Stephen spent one memorable day opening at Stanford University for His Holiness the Dala Lama. His World Music show Thursday mornings on Pacifica's KPFA Radio is justifiably extraordinarily popular. Stephen performs to increasingly large audiences around the world.  Visit www.stephenkent.net.
 

Sukhawat Ali Khan, Vocals & Harmonium

In the 1960's and 1970's, Ustad Salamat Ali Khan and Nazakat Ali Khan, Sukhawat's father and uncle, respectively, were known throughout Europe and much of the rest of the world as the famous "Ali Brothers", rivalling Ravi Shankar's popularity in the genre in the United States. They travelled in Russia, England and Europe performing their blend of pure North Indian and Pakistani classical music with the sounds of contemporary Western pop culture, thus pioneering the fresh musical genre emulated by their relative, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Sukhawat keeps the tradition brilliantly alive with his harmonium and voice. In addition to performing internationally, and extensively, he has made (as part of the Ali Khan Band, aka "Shabaz", with his sister and brother-in-law) three CDs. A more traditional approach is heard on his recent beautiful debut solo album, Shukriya.  Visit www.jahnur.com/sukhawat.

 For further information please contact
 Sedona Creative Life Center  928-282-9300