Gamelan Sekar Jaya

Date: Saturday, November 12th (doors at 7/show at 8pm).
Tickets: Online at Brown Paper Tickets, by phone 1-800-838-3006
Location: El Cerrito Performing Arts Center @ El Cerrito HS
540 Ashbury Avenue, El Cerrito, CA 94530

Enjoy a magnificent evening performance, bursting with sparkling melodies, shimmering timbres, interlocking- percussion, and the refined beauty and tempestuous drama of Balinese dance.

Tell a friend and bring friends!  In fact bring the whole family to this enchanting evening with Gamelan Sekar Jaya, in the intimate ambiance and comfort of the sensational music and arts venue located in El Cerrito High School.  Ticket prices are very friendly, and every dollar supports this special series of musi-cultural events, keCg radio, and the music education program at El Cerrito High.

Sekar Jaya presents an exciting program of new and traditional works for gamelan and dance, including pieces for gamelan semarandana, Bali’s innovative seven-toned orchestra of bronze metallophones, tuned gongs & bamboo flutes, (GSJ has the only such ensemble in the western United States); and gamelan angklung, the ethereally sweet four-toned ensemble that is often associated with temple ceremonies in Bali. The forty-plus musicians and dancers will be led by I Dewa Putu Berata (Guest Music Director of GSJ) and Emiko Saraswati Susilo (Guest Dance Director & Company Director), both internationally renowned artists, and long-time directors of Gamelan Çudamani, a leading arts organization based in Pengosekan, Bali. 

Admission:
Child $10.00  (Child under 12 yrs)
Student $15.00 (Under 25 with Student ID)
General Admission $20.00
Garuda $40.00 (First Four Rows)

Mebarung! Gamelan Sekar Jaya and Gamelan Burat Wangi
A Part of Luckman's World Arts Day
Saturday October 8th, 8pm
Cost: Free; no reservations required.

For the first time, Cal Arts' Gamelan Burat Wangi and Bay Area's Gamelan Sekar Jaya share the stage in the tradition of mebarung. In Bali, mebarung performances are anticipated with great excitement as two gamelan orchestras showcase their most virtuosic works. Joyous, playful and filled with admiration, these "battles" demand that each group perform at the highest level.

See all the details at the WFSM website: http://www.festivalofsacredmusic.org/event/mebarung

The Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90032

Yerba Buena Gardens
Located on Mission Street between 3rd & 4^th in San Francisco
Festival website: http://www.ybgf.org/
Free admission

Internationally acclaimed Gamelan Sekar Jaya returns to their favorite outdoor festival for Yerba Buena Garden’s outdoor concert series. Under the direction of two outstanding artists—the renowned Balinese composer and musician I Dewa Putu Berata, and acclaimed dancer and singer Emiko Saraswati Susilo—this Bay Area-based ensemble will perform music and dance from Bali in a beautiful garden setting. The thunderous giant bamboo jegog ensemble native to West Bali will perform along with the ethereally sweet gamelan angklung ensemble, accompanied by the dramatic flare of Balinese dance. The audience is welcomed to enjoy the complex interlocking melodies of these ensembles, and the myriad expressions and delicate hand and eye motions of Balinese dance, in this free outdoor setting.

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