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Wyetta Bontempo on Sarod for Portland’s Winter Light Festival
February 9, 2024 @ 9:15 pm - 10:00 pm
The soulful sounds of Indian ragas to welcome light into the winter night
On Sarod
Friday February 9, 2024 9:15 PM
World Trade Center
121 SW Salmon St, Portland, Oregon, 97204 USA
Cost: FREE
The sarod is a 25 stringed instrument, used in the Hindustani “raga” music of Northern India. It is among the most popular and prominent instruments in India. The sarod is known for a deep, rich, introspective sound, with sympathetic strings that give it a resonant, reverberant quality, in contrast to the sweet, overtone-rich texture of the sitar.
This performance lands on new moon, a time when the light of the moon is absent. Wyetta will invite the light of the moon to return by playing some of the more popular evening ragas which have a relationship with this celestial body and light itself.