Kaleidoscope: Autorickshaw, Penderecki String Quartet, The Elora Singers

Friday, July 18 at 7:30PM

Kaleidoscope: Autorickshaw, Penderecki String Quartet, The Elora Singers

Friday, July 18, 2025

7:30PM - 10:00PM

Gambrel Barn

7454 Wellington County Rd 21, Elora

$65/$55 Adult | $20 Student | $10 Child

In a concert of genre ground-breaking North-South-East-West fusion, Autorickshaw, the Penderecki String Quartet, and The Elora Singers present a kaleidoscope of styles and genres from ancient to modern. From Indian classical to vintage Bollywood, jazz to folk to Indo-inspired originals, this collaboration brings together centuries of classical music traditions from both the east and west.  

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Program

TāReKiTa
Reena Esmail

The Tipping Point
Reena Esmail

Break Away: III Smoke
Jessie Montgomery

A Letter from the After-Life
Dinuk Wijeratne

The Trouble with Hari
Gordon Sheard

Tabla Demonstration
Ed Hanley

Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard
Paul Simon, additional composition by Ed Hanley, Suba Sankaran, and Trichy Sankaran

Bird on the Wire
Leonard Cohen, arranged by Suba Sankaran

Aaj Ki Raat
R.D. Burman, arranged by Suba Sankaran

Kamalajadhala
Traditional, arranged by Suba Sankaran

Kannamma
Suba Sankaran

Manju Nihar
Annamalai Reddiyar, arranged by Suba Sankaran

English Note
H M Bhagavathar, arranged by Suba Sankaran

Maya
Suba Sankaran

Meditation Round
Suba Sankaran

Chaiyya Chaiyya
A. R. Rahman, arranged Suba Sankaran

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Autorickshaw

Autorickshaw’s music lies on the cultural cutting edge, as contemporary jazz, funk and folk easily rub shoulders with the classical and popular music of India. They have been recognized with two World Music Album of the Year JUNO nominations, a Canadian Independent Music Award and a John Lennon Songwriting Competition Grand Prize in World Music.

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Penderecki String Quartet

The Penderecki String Quartet’s performances demonstrate their “remarkable range of technical excellence and emotional sweep” (Globe and Mail). Described by Fanfare Magazine as “an ensemble of formidable power and keen musical sensitivity,” the quartet champions music of our time, performing a wide range of repertoire from Haydn to Zappa as well as premiering over 100 new works to date. They are Quartet-in-Residence at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.

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The Elora Singers

The Elora Singers, under the direction of  Mark Vuorinen, has established an international reputation as one of Canada’s finest professional choirs. The Elora Singers is the ensemble-in-residence of the Elora Festival each summer, in addition to presenting a regular concert series, producing recordings, and touring across Canada and internationally.