Shahram Azhar with Aqeel Bhatti (World Music/Sufi Fusion)

*Weis Center Atrium*
Associate Professor of Economics at Bucknell University Shahram Azhar will be joined by friend and fellow musician Aqeel Bhatti, a tabla player. The duo will fuse Urdu and Punjabi poetry and North Indian music with Western traditions.
At the Weis Center, Azhar will take the audience on a spiritual journey from birth to death through the Poorya Dhanashri Raaga. Each set of notes will, without words, communicate the universal human emotions of birth, happiness, reassurance, yearning, anxiety, confusion, restoration and deliverance. He will follow with a ghazal by the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib with the evening being devoted to a single Raaga system.