One and All Harmony Festival at Vedanta Centre
One and All Harmony Festival at Vedanta Centre Springfield Lakes will take place on Saturday, 23 March 2024, from 4.30 pm to 8.30 pm.
The Harmony Festival features live music, cultural dance, market stalls and delicious food. This twilight event is expected to attract a crowd of about 500 people. The festival aims to celebrate the incredible diversity of cultures and traditions that enrich our community.
Highlights of the evening will be African Drumming with Tsoof Baras. Tsoof Baras is a composer, percussionist, session musician, hand drummer and graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium. He has performed as a percussionist with the QLD Pops Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Ipswich Theatre Company, Salseros, Talkin’ the Drum and Spankinhide.
Tsoof will also perform with his newly-formed collaboration PanAlchemy with Darshil Shah, featuring three artists from diverse upbringings who will present a collection of calming and energetic music that could be described as a healing fusion of rhythm, improvisation and musical spontaneity. This concert features the unique handpan instrument and original music from Tsoof’s solo album Dawn. Lachlan will expand on the singer-songwriter material from his first album ‘No Enemy Within’. There will be moments of soaring improvisation from bansuri virtuoso Darshil Shah, introspective vocal melodies, and mystical soundscapes created by all three artists.
Glenn Barry, a Gamilaraay man – the First Nation peoples of North Western NSW and Western Queensland and Irish heritage- will officiate the Welcome to Country. Glenn structures his identity by reclaiming his ancestral voice with music and art, acknowledges his rich heritage, and offers expanded notions of urban Aboriginal experiences.
Other featured artists include Sargam Music Academy, who will delight the audience with Indian classical and semi-classical vocals, Singers from the Philippines- Australia Multicultural Association and Ashwini Nandkumar, a promising, committed young Bharatnatyam Exponent from India. Visitors can purchase hot meals from the onside Maa Sarada’s Kitchen Café, and there will also be snow cones for the kids.
The motto of Harmony Day is ‘Everyone Belongs,’ which reminds us to accept everyone regardless of their background or circumstances. What better place to celebrate Harmony Week than the Vedanta Centre, with its ideal of unity in diversity? This event has been assisted by the Ipswich City Council’s Community Events Funding.
Get your free tickets to this event at: https://www.trybooking.com/CPDUC
Address: Vedanta Centre, 96 Vedanta Drive Springfield Lakes (behind 2 Poppy Crescent)
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