Victor Wooten
Live in Concert
7 April 2010 (Wednesday),
GD Birla Sabhaghar

"Victor Wooten and Prasanna are known world wide as major innovators on their respective instruments - bass and guitar. Between them they represent the best of 21st century music that brings in elements of Funk, Hip hop, Carnatic music, Jazz, Blues, Classical music, avant garde and everything else they feed on in a melting pot of contemporary music. With two of the most celebrated virtuoso Indian percussionists S. Karthik on ghatam and Bangalore Amrit on kanjira, the quartet will play exciting, organic music that will feed your mind, body and soul"

Workshop Positioning:

Victor Wooten's workshop is not only open to musicians but all music lovers. Victor is one of the world's most sought after artists for such workshops and besides being one of the greatest bass guitarists ever to walk this planet, Victor is an incredibly articulate and motivating speaker, performer and teacher. His first music book 'The music lesson' is one of the world's top selling music books. At the workshop Victor will play, talk, take questions and also invite musicians from the audience to come and play with him and offer them guidance etc. Seeing Victor share his immense talents and his absolutely inspiring humanity and humility is an experience that should not be missed. 

Artistes' Bios:

Victor Wooten – bass/vocals
Victor Wooten is proof that all men are not made equal – Musican magazine
5-time Grammy Award winning music legend Victor Wooten is arguably the world's most well known bass guitarist. Victor's world wide Rock star like following among the general public is unmatched for any bass player. Along with Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke, Victor is widely considered to be the most groundbreaking bass player in the history of the instrument. He is the only bass player to win Bass player Magazine's 'Bass Player of the Year' award three times.
From Bela Fleck and the Flecktones to the Victor Wooten band to Chick Corea and the Elektric band to the bass supergroup SMV with Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller to frequently guesting with Dave Mathews band, Wooten is one of the most in-demand professional musicians in the international circuit today. He has performed all over the world at prestigious concert halls, festivals, big stadiums and amphitheaters. Beyond his bass, Victor is a top notch composer, innovator, multi-instrumentalist, rapper, naturalist, magician, animal tracker, acrobat, a teacher, an author and a devoted family man.
Victor conducts several nature and bass camps every year at Wooten woods resort in Nashville, TN attended by hundreds of musicians. Victor's inspiring book the 'Music Lesson' published by Penguin, is a worldwide best seller in music books.
http://www.victorwooten.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Victor-Wooten/57616431620?ref=search&sid=778134766.3143675420..1

http://www.myspace.com/victorwooten

Prasanna - guitars/vocals
Prasanna plays guitar like nobody on the planet – Allaboutjazz.com
Prasanna is one of the most outstanding guitarists, composers and educators of his generation. The world’s best known performer of Carnatic music on the guitar, a highly accomplished Jazz and Rock guitarist, a prolific composer whose latest score was for the 2009 Oscar Award winning documentary ‘Smile Pinki’, the President of Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music, India’s first ever professional college for contemporary Jazz, Rock and World Music - Prasanna is all of these and more.
The North Sea Jazz Festival in Netherlands, Middelheim Jazz Festival in Belgium, Festival Guitares Du Monde, La Fete de la Musique, Les Orientales De St. Florent Le Vieil and Festival Jazz En Artois in France, PanaFest in Ghana, Chicago jazz festival, Madison world music festival in the US are some of the top international festivals Prasanna has performed at. He has performed and recorded with such luminaries as Joe Lovano, A.R.Rahman, Victor Wooten, Airto Moreira, Larry Coryell, Umayalpuram Sivaraman, Anthony Jackson, Aka Moon, Omar Hakim, Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Rodney Holmes, Illayaraja, Dave Douglas, Aka Moon, Trilok Gurtu, Alphonso Johnson etc.
Prasanna has released 14 albums as leader including 11 Carnatic albums, ‘Electric Ganesha Land’, ‘Be the Change’, ‘Peaceful’ and 2 DVDs ‘Live in Sedona’ and the guitar instructional DVD ‘Ragamorphism’. Aside from leading his own bands, Prasanna is a key member of such bands as theRagabop trio with George Brooks and Steve Smith, Tirtha with Vijay Iyer and Nitin Mitta. As an educator, Prasanna has given lectures, clinics and residencies at MIT, Berklee College of Music Harvard University, Arizona State University etc.  Prasanna was guitar faculty at the prestigious Banff Jazz Summer workshop in 2008. Prasanna is an alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology and Berklee College of Music.
http://www.guitarprasanna.com
http://myspace.com/guitaristprasanna
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Prasanna/7536103955
http://www.sam.org.in

Dr. S. Karthick – ghatam/morsing
One of the most recognizable ghatam artists in the world today, Karthick has earned an international reputation for his path-breaking work in Carnatic music and in Crossover music. He studied for many years with the legendary ‘Vikku’ Vinayakram. Karthick has performed and recorded with every major Carnatic artist, done sessions work with film composers like A.R. Rahman and done numerous collaborative projects with French Pianist Ariane Gray Hubert and others. A recipient of prestigious awards including a Government of India Fellowship, a Rotary international award of excellence, and several ‘Best ghatam artist’ awards from stellar institutions like the Music Academy and others, Karthick has performed at prestigious venues including the United Nations General Assembly in New York, The Oriental music festival in France and others. Karthick leads his own acclaimed band ‘Heartbeat’ which has toured the US, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and other places. He toured with Prasanna in the US as part of his Electric Ganesha Land ensemble in 2008 performing at several of the top world music festivals and venues in the USA.
http://www.ghatamkarthick.com

Bangalore Amrit – Kanjira
Amrit is one of the most explosive kanjira players in the world today. He has performed and recorded with several top notch musicians including Karaikudi Mani, Umayalpuram Sivaraman, Kadri Gopalnath, George Brooks, Ganesh and Kumaresh, Taufiq Qureshi, A. Sivamani and others. He studied with the legendary kanjira master Harishankar. Amrit has received prestigious scholarships and awards from the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, the Government of India, the Government of Karnataka, Carnatic Music Association of North America and others. Amrit has toured and recorded with many of the top artists in the Indian music world. He toured with Prasanna in the US as part of his Electric Ganesha Land ensemble in 2008 performing at several of the top world music festivals and venues in the USA.
http://www.indiansarts.com/amrit.htm
http://www.myspace.com/amritkhanjira