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.
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
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.
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.
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.