Events and Concerts
Samavesha presents
a Cave Concert Experience with
The Eternal Presence
Bay Area Didjeridu Orchestra
led by Alan Tower & Stephen Kent.
10th anniversary celebration of the original Eternal Presence concert that launched the Cave Concert Series in 2002.
Saturday, May 5 9:30pm
Hawk Hill Tunnel - Marin Headlands, Sausalito
Hawk Hill Tunnel is located in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA)
A tunnel that is transformed, for one night only, into an enchanted Cave.
Click HERE to buy tickets!
Advance tickets only. No tickets will be sold at the event.
Samavesha presents
Art in Nature: The Nature of Art Festival
annual FREE multidisciplinary performing arts Festival located at the
Stream Trail of Redwood Regional Park in Oakland, California
Sunday September 23, 2012
from 11am to 5pm
Experience participatory art that is in relationship with nature, and shows the creative process of the artists.
Past events and concerts
Samavesha presents
in partnership with Zach Pine
8th Annual Free Create-With-Nature
April 21, 2012, 11am - 3pm,
South end of Stinson Beach, Marin County, California.
FREE
Samavesha presents
Novilunio
a world music fusion project by
Laura Inserra & Elizabeth Setzer with Evan Fraser.
Sunday, April 1, 2012 6pm
Numi Tea Garden
2230 Livingston Street, Oakland, CA 94606
FREE admission!
We rely on your generosity!
20% discount on loose-leaf tea by the cup. Bagged tea by the cup
will be donation based. Snacks and light bites available.
Samavesha presents
Musical Journeys
A live concert series of modern global music and selected fine tea.
Sunday, February 19 2012 6pm
with
Laura Inserra (multi-instrumentalist), Hasmik Harutyunyan (Armenian singer), Aharon Wheels Bolsta (tablas, bansuri, percussion), Elizabeth Setzer (singer), Evan Fraser (multi-instrumentalist), Cornelius Boots (shakuhachi flutes, bass clarinet), Jesse Sheehan (tabla, bansuri, sax) & more ...
FREE admission!
We rely on your generosity!
20% discount on loose-leaf tea by the cup. Bagged tea by the cup will be donation based. Snacks and light bites available.
Musical Journeys are curated by Laura Inserra
‘All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.’
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-Martin Buber
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CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL CALENDAR
Samavesha presents
A live concert series of modern global music and selected fine tea.
Sunday, March 25, 2012 6pm
Tbird Luv - flute, voice, ukulele
and
Laura Inserra - Hang, percussion
Every Sunday, 6pm to 8pm
FREE admission!
We rely in your generosity!
Numi Tea Garden
2230 Livingston Street
Oakland, CA 94606
20% discount on loose-leaf tea by the cup. Bagged tea by the cup will be donation based. Snacks and light bites available.
Musical Journeys is a series of Sunday evening live concerts of modern global music produced by Samavesha (www.samavesha.org) and curated by Laura Inserra (www.lauraiserra.com). This series hosts extraordinary local and international musicians, with unique musical styles, bringing the audience on various 'musical journeys'. Check the calendar or the past journeys to know more about the amazing variety of musicians that have been playing so far. We look forward to having you joining us in one of our ‘musical journeys’. See you there...
Samavesha presents
Novilunio
a world music fusion project by
Laura Inserra & Elizabeth Setzer
with Evan Fraser (multi-instrumentalist), Briget Boyle and Janet Kutulas (vocalists from Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble), and Armenian folk singer Hasmik Harutyunyan.
Friday, March 9, 2012 8pm
Sliding scale $10-20
2179 Bancroft Way - Berkeley, CA 94704
Free metered parking after 6pm. There are garages nearby. After 7pm, parking is available in the neighboring car wash lot but you should pay $5 to the gas station on Fulton and Kittredge. Subterranean Arthouse is located three blocks southeast of the Downtown Berkeley BART station.
Novilunio, the Italian term for 'new moon', is a world fusion music project created by multi-instrumentalist Laura Inserra and vocalist/pianist Elizabeth Setzer. Their music combines traditional folk songs from the Balkans and Caucasus region with original and improvised elements. Most of the instruments played belong to various ancient traditions from around the world, while others are contemporary inventions. The concert will feature guest musicians Evan Fraser (multi-instrumentalist from Hamsa Lila and Stella Mara), Briget Boyle, and Janet Kutulas (singers from Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble).
Samavesha presents
Novilunio
a new musical project by
Laura Inserra & Elizabeth Setzer with Evan Fraser (multi-instrumentalist)
Sunday, January 8, 2012 6pm
2230 Livingston Street
Oakland, CA 94606
FREE admission!
We rely on your generosity!
20% discount on loose-leaf tea by the cup. Bagged tea by the cup
will be donation based. Snacks and light bites available.
Samavesha presents
Musical Journeys
A live concert series of modern global music and selected fine tea.
Sunday, February 19 2012 6pm
with
Laura Inserra (multi-instrumentalist), Hasmik Harutyunyan (Armenian singer), Aharon Wheels Bolsta (tablas, bansuri, percussion), Elizabeth Setzer (singer), Evan Fraser (multi-instrumentalist), Cornelius Boots (shakuhachi flutes, bass clarinet), Jesse Sheehan (tabla, bansuri, sax)
& more ...
FREE admission!
We rely on your generosity!
20% discount on loose-leaf tea by the cup. Bagged tea by the cup will be donation based. Snacks and light bites available.
Musical Journeys are curated by Laura Inserra
‘All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.’
-
-Martin Buber
-
-
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL CALENDAR
Samavesha presents
in partnership with Zach Pine
8th Annual Free Create-With-Nature Earth Day Celebration
April 21, 2012, 11am - 3pm,
South end of Stinson Beach, Marin County, California.
FREE
Samavesha presents
Art in Nature: The Nature of Art Festival
annual FREE multidisciplinary performing arts Festival located at the
Stream Trail of Redwood Regional Park in Oakland, California
Sunday September 23, 2012
from 11am to 5pm
Experience participatory art that is in relationship with nature, and shows the creative process of the artists.
Samavesha presents
A live concert series of modern global music
and selected fine tea.
Every Sunday, 6pm to 8pm
FREE admission!
We rely in your generosity!
Numi Tea Garden
2230 Livingston Street
Oakland, CA 94606
20% discount on loose-leaf tea by the cup. Bagged tea by the cup will be donation based. Snacks and light bites available.
Click here to see the calendar
Samavesha presents
Musical Journeys with
Novilunio
a new musical project by
Laura Inserra & Elizabeth Setzer
with Evan Fraser (multi-instrumentalist)
Sunday, January 8, 2012 6pm
2230 Livingston Street
Oakland, CA 94606
FREE admission!
We rely on your generosity!
20% discount on loose-leaf tea by the cup. Bagged tea by the cup
will be donation based. Snacks and light bites available.
Samavesha presents
music to fill your heart, tea to nourish your soul
Sunday, December 11, 2011 6pm
Russell Ives Quartet
Come enjoy live concert series of modern global music and selected fine tea.
FREE admission!
We rely on your generosity!
2230 Livingston Street
Oakland, CA 94606
20% discount on loose-leaf tea by the cup. Bagged tea by the cup
will be donation based. Snacks and light bites available.
Musical Journeys are curated by Laura Inserra
Samavesha presents
music to fill your heart, tea to nourish your soul
Sunday, October 9, 2011
6pm
Laura Inserra & guest musicians
Come enjoy live concert series of modern global music and selected fine tea.
FREE admission!
We rely on your generosity!
2230 Livingston Street
Oakland, CA 94606
20% discount on loose-leaf tea by the cup. Bagged tea by the cup
will be donation based. Snacks and light bites available.
Musical Journeys are curated by Laura Inserra
Samavesha presents
Art in Nature: The Nature of Art Festival
A FREE multidisciplinary art festival
bringing together artists, community and nature.
Sunday October 2, 2011
Stream Trail of Redwood Regional Park, Oakland, CA
FREE
We invite you to make a donation so that we can bring this FREE festival to the public.
... a very rare opportunity indeed!!
There will be NO exchange of money in the Park but only a full immersion into art and beauty!
Samavesha presents
in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco
Hearken Music: hear by listening to the sound.
A duo concert with renowned Maestro Laura Inserra
and multi-instrumentalist Evan Fraser
Friday September 23, 2011 7:30pm
814 Montgomery Street, San Francisco
Admission is $15/general, $7/members of the IIC RSVP (415) 788-7142 x18
music to fill your heart, tea to nourish your soul
Every Saturday from 8-10pm with great international musicians,
organic vegan food and selected fine tea.
Saturday September 10, 8pm to 10pm
Tom Lattanand (guitar)
FREE admission!
We rely on your generosity!
Fine teas and organic vegan food available.
233 14th St, San Francisco
(between Mission & South Van Ness)
3 blocks from 16th/Mission BART
music to fill your heart, tea to nourish your soul
Saturday September 3, 8pm to 10pm
Laura Inserra (multi-instrumentalist)
with great guest musicians!
FREE admission!
We rely on your generosity!
Fine teas and organic vegan food available.
233 14th St, San Francisco
(between Mission & South Van Ness)
3 blocks from 16th/Mission BART
History and development of percussion instruments
From ancient times to the modern Era.
Workshop with renowned percussionist Maestro
Laura Inserra
Fridays September 9th and 16th
from 7pm to 9pm
RSVP (415) 788-7142 x18
The workshop will be followed by a solo concert with Laura Inserra
on Friday September 23rd at 7:30pm
Italian Cultural Institute
814 Montgomery Street • San Francisco
In this workshop we will explore the evolution of percussion instruments, their cultural implications and how to develop and express rhythms.
Ancient forms of musical expression
Voice and rhythm workshop with
Elizabeth Setzer and Laura Inserra
Fridays August 19th and 26th
from 7pm to 9pm
Italian Cultural Institute
814 Montgomery Street • San Francisco
Explore voice and rhythm practices rooted in Eastern European folk singing and rhythmic traditions from around the world.
Laura Inserra Concert
with special Evan Fraser and Elisabeth Setzer
Thursday Aug. 4, 2011
12:30pm
FREE
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Audiences worldwide are captivated by the virtuosity, profound musicality and the passion that Sicilian-born Laura Inserra brings to the stage. A vibrant composer and multi-instrumentalist, Inserra is a classically trained musician with a strong improvisational background. She will perform a solo concert on the Hang, a resonating percussion instrument related to the steel drum, song, gamelan and ghatam. In the Bernese language ‘Hang’ means ‘hand’ and the Hang is made, tuned and played by hand. Created in 2000 in Switzerland by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer of the PANArt Company, its sound evokes an exquisite and delicate inner landscape of spaciousness and vitality.
music to fill your heart, tea to nourish your soul
Every Saturday from 7-10pm with great international musicians,
organic vegan food and selected fine tea.
Saturday August 6, 8pm
Laura Inserra (Hang, percussion)
&
Elizabeth Setzer (voice, Bulgarian tambura)
FREE admission!
We rely on your generosity!
233 14th St, San Francisco
(between Mission & South Van Ness)
3 blocks from 16th/Mission BART
music to fill your heart, tea to nourish your soul
Every Saturday from 7-10pm with great international musicians,
organic vegan food and selected fine tea.
Saturday July 30, 7pm to 10pm
Music starts at 8pm
with
A'capella/blues/experimental (Montreal, Canada)
This Montreal-based trio is composed of avant-folk vocalists Eleuthera Diconca-Lippert, Stefanie Dimitrovas & Meghan Beth Riley. Their music wraps the listeners in a warm blanket of sound, luring them into the world of unconscious thought and feeling lying beneath the surface of our minds, and meditating on the fertility of our bodies.
FREE admission!
We rely on your generosity!
233 14th St, San Francisco
(between Mission & South Van Ness)
3 blocks from 16th/Mission BART
music to fill your heart, tea to nourish your soul
Every Saturday from 7-10pm with great international musicians,
organic vegan food and selected fine tea.
Saturday July 23, 7pm to 10pm
Music starts at 8pm
with
Russell Ives Trio (Mandolin, Guitar, Percussion, Vocals)
featuring
Laura Inserra (percussion, Hang)
Russell Simon (bass, vocals)
FREE admission!
We rely on your generosity!
Join us this Saturday at Om Shan Tea: Musical Journeys with
Bay Area musician Russell Ives Trio.
A journey around the world filled with lush soundscapes,
hypnotic melodies and soaring vocal harmonies.
Click here to know more about Russell Ives music.
233 14th St, San Francisco
(between Mission & South Van Ness)
3 blocks from 16th/Mission BART
in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco
presents
Mediterranean Rhapsody
with
Barbara Eramo (voice and guitar)
& Laura Inserra (Hang and percussion)
Featuring Elizabeth Setzer (voice, piano and Bulgarian tambura)
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 7:30 pm
RSVP (415) 788-7142 x18
Admission is $15/general, $7/members of the IIC
814 Montgomery Street • San Francisco
Samavesha presents
music to fill your heart, tea to nourish your soul
Every Saturday from 7-10pm with great international musicians,
organic vegan food and selected fine tea.
Saturday July 9, 7pm to 10pm
Music starts at 8pm
with
FREE admission!
We rely on your generosity!
233 14th St, San Francisco
(between Mission & South Van Ness)
3 blocks from 16th/Mission BART
Samavesha presents
a Cave Concert Experience with
&
Renowned HANG Virtuoso
featuring Temple of Poi,
Saturday June 25th, 2011 9:30 pm
Hawk Hill Tunnel - Marin Headlands, Sausalito
Hawk Hill Tunnel is located in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA)
Join us for this special evening where hauntingly beautiful songs
merge with otherworldly resonances.
All this inside a tunnel that is transformed, for one night only,
into an enchanted Cave.
Click here to buy tickets!
Advance tickets only. No tickets will be sold at the event.
Past Cave Concerts have always sold out, so please buy the tickets in advance and don't miss this exciting opportunity.
The Tunnel offers incredible resonance and is sealed off on one end by the event crew and transformed into a Cave.
This year we will bring to you a very special concert!
Visit the official website: www.CaveConcert.org
Samavesha presents
music to fill your heart, tea to nourish your soul
Every Saturday from 7-10pm with great international musicians,
organic vegan food and selected fine tea.
Saturday June 25, 7pm to 10pm
Music starts at 8pm
with
(kalimba, ngoni, jaw harp, percussion and more)
FREE admission!
We rely on your generosity!
233 14th St, San Francisco
(between Mission & South Van Ness)
3 blocks from 16th/Mission BART
Samavesha presents
music to fill your heart, tea to nourish your soul
Come enjoy live music with great international musicians, organic vegan food, and selected fine tea.
Saturday June 4, 7pm to 10pm
Music starts at 8pm
with
Barbara Eramo (voice) & Laura Inserra (Hang, percussion)
FREE admission!
We rely on your generosity!
233 14th St, San Francisco
(between Mission & South Van Ness)
3 blocks from 16th/Mission BART
Samavesha presents
Featuring artists:
Laura Inserra (Hang and percussion), TBird Luv (flute and ukalele), Bar Shacterman (sculpture), Cornelius Boots (shakuhachi flute), Shay Nicolson (voice), Mihyun Lee (dance), Banana Lazuli (voice and piano), Goh Kurosawa (guitar), Ron Tofanelli (Dj set)
and Samavesha's premiere residency artist, Italian singer Barbara Eramo
Friday June 3rd, 2011
7:30pm
Sliding Scale $10 or more... Buy TICKETS now!!!
Post-industrial Temple
1414 Harbour Way South, #1010, Richmond, CA
Click here for the directions!
We will raffle off two tickets to a unique Cave Concert in the Hawk Hill Tunnel, Marin Headlands, featuring the women's group Kitka, Laura Inserra & The Temple of Poi.
Come and join in the FUN with us! Snacks and drinks will be available.
Samavesha presents
...music to fill your heart, tea to nourish your soul.
Every Saturday from 7-10pm with great international musicians,
organic food and fine teas service.
Saturday May 28th, 7-10pm
with
Cornelius Boots (Shakuhachi flutes) & Laura Inserra (Hang, percussion)
Suggested donation $10
Fine teas and organic vegan food available.
233 14th St, San Francisco
(between Mission & South Van Ness)
3 blocks from 16th/Mission BART
Samavesha
in partnership with Zach Pine
presents
7th Annual Free Create-With-Nature Earth Day Celebration
April 16, 2011, from 11am to 3pm,
South end of Stinson Beach, Marin County, California.
FREE
Featuring Samavesha artists.
Samavesha
in partnership with the
Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco
presents
Hearken Music: hear by listening to the sound
A solo HANG concert with renowned Maestro Laura Inserra
Friday April 15, 2011 6:30pm
Italian Cultural Institute, 814 Montgomery Street, San Francisco
Admission is $15/general, $7/members of the IIC RSVP (415) 788-7142 x18
To hear the sound of the Hang exclusively through recordings does not allow you to truly experience its depth and uniqueness. Take this opportunity to immerse yourself and your senses in this infinite cosmos of sounds. Read more...
SAMAVESHA past productions:
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✴Sol Invictus (Winter Solstice)
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and way more...
