Upcoming Concerts - East Coast USA:
- Jan. 9, 2010 6 pm. (Saturday) with Noor W. - Music & Dance of Afghanistan (Sold Out!) for Greg Mortenson's book event "Three Cups of Tea". Sponsored by The Richmond Forum, at the Landmark Theater, Richmond Virginia
- Jan. 10, 2010 8 pm. (Sunday) - Army-Navy Country Club, 1700 Army Navy Drive,
Arlington, Virginia 22202 with Naba Singha - sitar. Call - (703)521-6800 for information.
- Mar. 11 '10 - The Hill School, Middleburg, Virginia. Broto Roy Trio, East Indian Music & Dance. School program - 2 sets: 9-9:45 am and 11-11:45 am.
- Mar. 12 '10 - Beauviour National Cathedral School, Washington, DC. East Indian Music. 2 sets: 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm.
- April 20, 2010 - Syracuse University, New York
- April 21, 2010 - State University of New York-Oswego
- May 1, 2010 - Montpelier Arts Center - Herb and Tea Festival. GANGA - Music of Bengal with guitarist Sanjay Mishra and dancer Jayantee Paine.
Selected Previous Concerts:
- Nov 04, '09 - Blues Alley, Washington, DC with Sanjay Mishra, guitarist. Two shows: 8 & 10 pm.
- Oct 27, '09 (Tuesday) - Art & Drama Therapy Institute, Washington DC. Music and Dance of India: Humayun Khan, vocals; Yasmina, kathak dance; Christel Stevens, harmonium & B. on tabla. 10:30 am.
- September 30, '09 - U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's "Diversity Day", Bethesda, MD. John Wubbenhorst, flute & B. on tabla. Noon.
- July 10, '09 - GANGA Mason District Park Amphitheater - Fairfax County, VA "Spotlight by Starlight" concert series. 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm. Show Hotline is (703)324-SHOW. Park Performance Schedule
- May 30, '09 Saturday, concert for Indian saint "Ma". Vienna, Virginia with John Wubbenhorst, flute.
- May 17, '09 - Broto Roy Ensemble - East-West fusion with bass, guitar, flute & drumkit at the Festival of Nations, PG County, Maryland
- May 2, '09 - Folk Music of India - GANGA At the Washington Ethical Society Hall, 7750 16th St. NW, DC. 8:00 pm
- Apr 20, '09 Monday 12:30 pm - Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge Campus at Campus Center
- Apr 15, '09 Wednesday 2:00 pm - Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Campus CF P
- Apr 4, '09 Saturday 12:40 pm - University of Mary Washington - sitar & tabla - Monroe Hall stage, Fredericksburg, VA
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- Mar 23, '09 - Univ of South Carolina at Columbia SC. With Indro, sitar. 12:00 pm noon.
- Feb 18, '09 - Blues Alley - Washington DC. Broto accompanies Sanjay Mishra, guitar; John Wubbenhorst, flute & keyboards.
- Nov 13, '08 - 1:00 pm at University of Pennsylvania - Hazelton campus. Sitar by Indro Roy Chowdhury, B. on tabla.
- Nov 7, '08 - Noon at La Roche College, Pittsburgh PA Sitar/tabla concert with Indro Roy Chowdhury
- Oct. 19, '08 (Sunday 2:00 pm) - Loudon County Library, Ashburn branch - Tabla and Sitar duo featuring Subroto Roy Chowdhury sitarist extraordinaire from Calcutta, India and Broto on tabla.
- Oct. 18, '08 5 pm - Subroto Roy Chowdhury sitar/tabla concert at the residence of Ranjana & Narayan Khan 10812 Old Coach Road, Potomac, MD.
- Oct. 11, '08 Saturday - GANGA, of the Roy family, plays the Richmond Folk Festival - New Market Stage at 2:00 pm.
- BROTO ROY'S INDIAN DANCE with dancers YASMINA and PARUL SHAH; Indro Roy Chowdhury, sitar; Broto, tabla; and Christel, harmonium. Monday, April 21, '08 7:00 - 8:00 PM. St. John's University, Queens, NY
- BROTO ROY'S INDIAN DANCE TRIO with YASMINA and Christel on harmonium. Monday, April 14, '08 - 1:30 - 2:00 PM - McDaniel College, Winchester, MD
- BROTO ROY'S INDIAN DANCE TRIO with YASMINA and Christel on harmonium.
Wednesday, April 9, '08 - 1:30 - 2:00 PM - Northern Virginia Community College - Annandale Campus Plaza
- The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC - Thursday, Nov 22, '07. The Broto Roy Ensemble. The concert centered around the tabla and recitation of its 5,000 year old percussion language. The evening began with a concerto for tabla ensemble, then an Indian “raga” with sitar, a few short original songs and finally, a cheoreographed dance with tabla compositions said and played. All the music was scored for sitar, tabla, keyboard, drumkit, bass, and soprano vocals.
- Seton Hall University, NJ - Tues., September 18 '07. Music & Dance of Afghanistan
- St. Mary's College, MD - Friday, September 28 '07. Sitar & Tabla Duet.
- Elmira College, NY - Thursday, October 18, '07. Sitar & Tabla Duet.
- The Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut - April '07 with The Music & Dance of Afghanistan. Noor Wodjouatt, vocals; Basir Wodjouatt, rebab; Yasmina, dance, Broto, tabla.
- South Carroll High School, Sitar & Tabla Concert for Unity Day - March 23, '07, Sykesville, MD
- Corporate Event for British Petroleum - Oct 12, '06 Sitar & Tabla concert, Chantilly, VA
- SUNY-Syracuse, NY Aug 28, '06 Goldstein Auditorium. Broto with "Bamiyan" - authentic Afghan music and dance and vocals.
- Lowell, MA July 29 and 30, '06 - The 20th Annual Lowell Folk Festival. Four shows of classical Indian music with sitar wizard Debiprasad Chatterjee. Seven stages, with national acts as varied as Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, blues by The Bobby Parker Band and portugese Fado.
- The Broto Roy Octet 7/27/05 - Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Four original, new compositions and a few songs by Broto Roy featuring the Indian Ragas Puriyadhanashri and Behag were performed. All the music was scored for vocals (Deeme Katson), saxophone (Marshall Keys), guitar (Pedro J. Sera-Leyva), piano and synthesizer DX7 (Harry Appleman), bass (Teo Graca), drums (Saul McCormack), and tabla (Broto Roy). Live Webcast and archive at www.kennedy-center.org/millennium.
- Broto accompanied virtuoso guitarist Fareed Haque (of the band Garaj Mahal), Steve Smith (drums) and Dan Nimmer (keyboardist for the Wynton Marsalis Quartet) in San Francisco at The Boom Boom Room, 1601 Fillmore Street 5/7/05.
- 10/12/05 Broto accompanied one of Calcutta's best vocalists, Pandit Santanu Bandyopadhyay and fusion artist Neel Adhikari
- 10/17/04 - Gandhi Center with Grammy Nominee sitar virtuoso, Gaurav Mazumdar
- The Roy family group "Ganga" performed folk music of Bengal, India on Saturday, 6/4/05 at the Washington Folk Festival.
- 11/22/03 Saturday, 6 pm - Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. East-West fusion by the Broto Roy Sextet.
- 11/20/03 - GANGA, Music of Bengal India, The Library of Congress' "Capitol Roots Series"
- 10/5/03 The Columbia Pike Festival - The Broto Roy Band
- Summer '03 - The Art & Drama Therapy Institute commissioned Broto to compose a piece for submission to the 47th Annual Grammy Awards in 2004
- The 2002 Smithsonian Silk Road Festival on the National Mall with the Bauls of Bangladesh - June 26th - July 8
- World Music Institute Washington Square Church
- July 7, 2001 at Lowell, MA (outside Boston) Broto and his fusion group performed at the Summer Music Festival
- Baltimore Museum of Art
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Uris Auditorium
- The Smithsonian's Freer Gallery.
- The Peabody Conservatory
- Towson State College - Krashaar Auditorium with poet Robert Bly
- Concert to Uplift Spirits - In Memoriam of the Victims and Heroes of September 11th
- The Kennedy Center - Artist in Residence July 1998
- Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution
- Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium
- Blues Alley
- The Dance Place with Sarah Rudner performing "Heartbeat"
- Toured with one of India's fast rising sitar players, Sugato Nag
- Toured with one of India's leading sitar players, Subrata Roy Chowdhury
- National Gallery of Women in the Arts
- Loft Jazz Festival
- Free Jazz Festival
- The Smithsonian Institute's American Folk Life Festival
- New Music America Festival
- The Bayou
- The Washington Folk Festival at Glen Echo Park
- The Ethnic Heritage Festival
- The Kitchen
- The Knitting Factory
- The Newark Museum
- The Lowell Folk Festival 7/2000 with sarod virtuoso Aashish Kahn.
- National Folk Festival, 8/2002, East Lansing
- Detroit Festival of Colors
- 53rd National Folk Festival, Johnstown
- Celebration of the Bicentennial of the Constitution, Philadelphia
- Kerrville Music Festival
International -
- Volkerkrunde Museum, Dahlem, Berlin, and Bremen, Germany
- Stockholm, Sweden, and many more...
Radio
- Radio Free Europe
- National Public Radio, coast to coast
- Radio Smithsonian
- Voice of America Global Broadcast
College Performances -
- Mary Washington College, Virginia
- Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts
- University of Cincinnati, Ohio
- SUNY, Syracuse, New York
- Elmira College, Pennsylvania and many more.
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