VidyA: Double Show!

South Indian Classical Music Meets Jazz

 Praised for their emotional energy and musicianship, VidyA has been featured at venues such as SFJazz, San Jose Jazz, Yoshi’s, Asian American Film Festival, Recontraire Internationale in France, and more. An effortlessly smooth saxophonist, Radhakrishnan’s original compositions for VidyA have been commissioned by the De Young Museum via the Jazz at Intersection series and awarded the Zellerbach Family Fund grant among others.

Todd Brown, founder of Red Poppy Art House, praised the former Red Poppy Resident Artists by saying, “VidyA’s music breathes at the very center of a cultural crossroads between the North American jazz idiom and the Carnatic music of South India. VidyA’s music is a new vein of North American music… present tense, present location, new culture in the making.”

VidyA consists of:

Prasant Radhakrishnan -Saxophone
David Ewell – Bass
Sameer Gupta – Drums

To hear a sneak peek of their music, visit the YouTube link here.

Visit their official website, and also, check out the Facebook event here.

Admission: $15-20. VidyA will play two 70 minute shows. Doors open at 6:30pm, first show begins at 7:00pm. Doors open again at 8:20pm, second show begins at 8:40pm.  

Tickets will not be sold in advance for this event. Please arrive at the Red Poppy when doors open to purchase tickets.