Spirit of ‘75 Series: Ashwin Batish – Sitar Power

Kuumbwa Jazz’s Spirit of ’75 Series celebrates our 50th anniversary with performances by local/community artists and $19.75 tickets commemorating our founding year.

“Whether or not you’re familiar with the music, your mind is likely to be delightfully blown by what Batish creates.” – San Francisco Weekly

If global oneness and harmony is an ideal we want to see reached, then Ashwin Batish should be applauded as being a forerunner who has done his best to bring multi-cultural styles together in a musical pot called ‘Worldbeat.’

Trained in the intricacies of North Indian classical music by his father the legendary Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish, Batish has stepped out of the box and taken his age-old traditional forms through a musical melt with some of the most exciting and beat driven music forms of the west. He has created a landscape of cultural richness one can not only hear, but see.

Ashwin Batish Website
(Ticket Includes 5% City of Santa Cruz Admission Tax)