Gamelan Sekar Jaya

Gamelan Sekar Jaya’s BAMBOO GAMELAN & DANCE
With special guests GAMELAN X

Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center
1317 San Pablo Ave Berkeley, California 94702
Show starts at 8pm!

GAMELAN SEKAR JAYA, the Bay Area’s internationally renowned Balinese gamelan and dance company, brings the artistry of two brilliant artists from Bali to the Ashkenaz to lead a concert of new and traditional works. I Dewa Putu Berata and Emiko Saraswati Susilo, Directors of Bali’s acclaimed performing ensemble Cudamani. They will direct twenty-five of Sekar Jaya’s performers in two kinds of Balinese gamelan—Gamelan jegog, the rare orchestra of giant bamboo marimbas with tubes up to eight feet long, marked by its exuberance, powerful sound and physicality; and gamelan tingklik, the small bamboo gamelan known for its flirty joged dancing often performed in the middle Balinese village streets. GSJ's jegog ensemble, the only such group in the Western Hemisphere, will be offering up deliciously virtuosic tunes including a brand new piece by local composer Paddy Sandino.

Sekar Jaya will be joined by Gamelan X, "The Bay Area's own Funkadelic of ethnomusicology." (Todd Lavoie, SF Guardian), who will tease the audience with a sneak-peek of what they have planned for their imminent Burning Man procession this year.

Tickets: http://www.ashkenaz.com/ht​ml/tickets.html
$10 advance & students
$12 at the door