Celebrating 30 years and counting, ground-breaking musical collective Toronto Tabla Ensemble (TTE) are set to bring their award-winning and JUNO-nominated sound to Ottawa this March. The concert will take place March 4th at the Arts Court’s Theatre, and — due to the intimate setting — a limited amount of tickets are available now!
This concert follows four very successful post COVID shows in Toronto, Hamilton and two in London, Ontario, for the album release of “For the Love of Tabla”.
The performance will also feature a lecture demo on how Tabla rhythms work, and how it’s incorporated with other forms of music.
Over the last three decades, TTE has wowed audiences playing some of the biggest stages around the world. As they’ve brought their intricate music to the masses, TTE has won and been nominated for numerous creative awards — including the Global Music Award for Outstanding Achievement in composition, the Independent Music Award for Best World Traditional Song, and a JUNO Award nomination for their enigmatic record, Firedance.
Ritesh Das is the founder and artistic director of the Toronto Tabla Ensemble. He was born in Kolkata, India and growing up in a musical environment allowed him immediate exposure to music and tabla at a young age. In 1985, Das moved to Toronto where he began teaching tabla on a full-time basis. In 1991, he formed the Toronto Tabla Tabla Ensemble, made up of his students at the time. Ritesh Das has produced eight albums with the TTE and is currently working on producing his first solo album. In 2016 he was awarded the Roy Thomson Hall of Award of Recognition through the Toronto Arts Foundation.
With a myriad of accolades under their belt, Ritesh Das and TTE continue to weave their art far and wide as a way of entertaining, uniting, and educating listeners.
With the recent unveiling of their eighth studio release, For the Love of Tabla, Das continues to put the tabla — a twin-hand drum popularized in northern India during the 18th century — in the spotlight.
“Normally the tabla gets lost or buried under all the other instruments in a song,” Das explains. “For this album, I mixed each track to bring the tabla up so you can hear it prominently within all the other sounds.”
Now audiences in Ottawa will get a chance to be up close and personal to the delightful music device to learn and experience first-hand its immersive sound; Toronto Tabla Ensemble will take the stage at Arts Court – Arts Court Theatre this March 4th at 7:00pm. Tickets are available now!
For more information, please contact:
Melissa Das-Arp
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