The Heart Song
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Date: 21 December 2025 | Sunday
Time: 6:00 PM onwards
Venue: KCC Amphitheatre
Kolkata Centre for Creativity invites you to an enchanting evening where music, movement and prayer flow into one seamless offering, as a part of AMI Arts Festival 2025. Parvathy Baul, one of the most powerful contemporary voices of the Baul path, joins saxophonist and composer George Brooks, whose improvisational depth bridges global traditions with Indian classical thought. Together, they will shape a meditative performance that transcends borders of faith and language.
Rooted in a centuries-old yogic lineage shaped by Buddhism, Vaishnavism, Sufism and Tantra, the Baul tradition turns simple stories into spiritual journeys. Through song, rhythm and colloquial Bengali poetry, the duo will open a space where every gesture becomes a passage into another state of being.
About the Artists
Parvathy Baul is a leading practitioner, performer and storyteller of the Baul tradition from Bengal. Known for her extraordinary command of voice, instrumentation and spellbinding dance, her work is grounded in rigorous spiritual training with masters Sanatan Das Thakur Baul and Shashanko Goshai. She has performed across more than forty countries, appearing at major festivals and venues worldwide. In 2019, she received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, India’s highest honour for practicing artists.
George Brooks is a celebrated saxophonist and composer whose work merges jazz with Indian classical music in groundbreaking ways. Regarded as a leading figure in Indian jazz fusion, he has created influential Indian fusion groups including Summit with Zakir Hussain, Bombay Jazz Ronu Majumdar and Larry Coryell, Kirwani Quartet with Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, and Elements with Kala Ramnath and Dutch harpist Gwyneth Wentink, to name a few. Trained under Kirana legend Pandit Pran Nath, he has contributed to several landmark recordings, notably John McLaughlin’s Grammy-nominated “Floating Point.” Brooks has also taught at major institutions and conducts masterclasses internationally.
