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It’s been almost a year since we released this album, and we’re excited that it will be on the Grammy ballot for your consideration:

Best Global Music Album - Sangat by Qais Essar & Sonny Singh

Best Global Music Performance - Koi Bolai Ram by Qais Essar & Sonny Singh ft. Sandeep Singh & Neelamjit Dhillon

#fyc #grammys
@neelamjitmusic @sandeepdilruba

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Only 5 days left until our 4th Annual Spring Festival! Join us THIS Saturday, April 18th, from 12-5 pm to celebrate with live performances, food, and community activities!

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Come celebrate our 4th Annual Spring Festival this Saturday, April 18th, from 12-5 pm! Featuring headlining performances from Sudha Mokkapati, Sangat, Steel Dragon Martial Arts, and the Sri Lankan Dance Academy of New York and New Jersey!

Join us to celebrate with live performances, food trucks, and community activities!

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Our album Sangat came out one week ago and we’ve been on the road bringing this sacred music of oneness and solidarity to life on stage. Thank you for coming on this journey with us. ੴ

Next stop Chicago on November 8th at @southasiainstitute.

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March, reflections. Reminders.
Some of you might already know, I’ve recently spent some time moving through a kind of pain I’ve never quite known before. A pain I’d previously brushed against, tasted without quite having the tongue for it. This time it was not as peripheral. I am well and truly rearranged.

Toward the mouth of the lion I was thrust, and into it I walked.

At its heaviest, being awake was unbearable. But in the breaking, a strange clarity begins to arise.

I am not afraid of pain.

This pain is not my enemy. It is not something to be rushed toward or away from. It strips away illusions, exposes the bones of old or false truths, and demands that we sit still long enough to actually notice.

Sure, it is proof of injury, but also, of connection. And, as ever, to feel deeply, even when it scalds, is evidence that we are, in fact, Alive. Here.

I wish I had something profound to offer anyone reading this, but I don’t. I only have small reflections that, however cliché may sound, are real to me.

Though the feelings might be real, the conclusions aren’t always. Stay with it. Accept it. Be patient. And know when to move. For when everything seems to be coming apart, something else, something precious, is taking shape in the ruins.

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@qaisessar @iamsonnysingh @sukhmanimusic @ria_modak @southasiabrownu @watsonschoolbrown @wearesangat

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My interview about this coming Monday’s Sangat show in Northampton, MA with the Fabulous 413 on @nepublicmedia was too much fun. Listen to the whole conversation at https://www.nenc.news/show/the-fabulous-413 . Still a few tickets left for our show on March 16 at @parlorroommusic !

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Coming right up! Music and shenanigans with a bunch of badass sweetie pies ❤️ join us on the way!

With @wearesangat
Mar 16 - Northampton, MA
Mar 17 - Providence, RI
Mar 21 - Davenport, IA

With @snatamkaurkhalsa
April 7 - Krakow, Poland
April 9 - Warsaw, Poland
April 11 - Gdansk, Poland
April 14 - London, England
April 16/17 - Linz, Austria
April 18 - Linz, Austria (workshop)
April 20 - Zurich, Switzerland
April 22 - Almere, Netherlands
April 24 - Frankfurt, Germany

Stay tuned, more to come ❤️

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SECRET PLANET X PRCO 🪐🪐🪐

We’ve got some amazing shows presented by Secret Planet coming up. DON’T MISS THESE!

3.16 // Sangat at The Parlor Room
3.21 // Cheo y Los Consentidos de la Casa w/ DJ Bongohead & Ich Bin Ein Sabich pop-up at The Iron Horse
4.3 // Maurice Louca’s “Fera” Quartet w/ Haughey-Harman Cello Project at The Parlor Room
5.9 // Son Rompe Pera at The Iron Horse
5.28 // Saha Gnawa at The Iron Horse

“What kind of music? Music from everywhere. Less about genre, more about place, culture, and origin; music that honors roots and traditions; or starts there but ends somewhere else; or breaks all the rules in search of something new.” - @secretplanetnoho

Tickets are on sale NOW at ironhorse.org 🎫

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This coming Monday 3/16, we welcome the warm and expansive unity of Punjabi and Afghani traditional sounds to Northampton — @wearesangat explores a forgotten legacy of Sikh-Muslim musical collaboration with Afghan-American rabab player Qais Essar, Sikh-American trumpet player Sonny Singh (Red Baraat), and the Punjabi-British tabla player Sukhmani. The project keenly explores justice through music across borders and cultures.

An intimate sit-down show at the Parlor Room — tickets very limited so snag one now before they’re gone!

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I’m overjoyed to share that I was asked, and accepted with my whole heart, to join @wearesangat, a project co-created by my new, dear friends, @iamsonnysingh and @qaisessar

Sangat is togetherness and community, lived in practice.

Playing with these two has felt immediately generous, incredibly listening-forward, collaborative, principled, and so much fun. The music asks for presence and care. There is space for joy and for grief, for immense beauty, for responsibility, and courage. Sound and values are woven together.

I’m deeply grateful to be doing this work with them, and excited for what’s unfolding.

Tour dates coming very soon.
Follow @wearesangat for updates 🌹❤️

📷 the incredible @fatimahhossaini

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It was an honor to perform at @nycmayor Zohran Mamdani’s interfaith breakfast last week with @qaisessar and @sukhmanimusic as @wearesangat. We opened the event with a shabad by Guru Nanak Ji followed by a qawwali song. For us the message is the same - Divine Oneness is a call to action to fight all forms of oppression and stand in solidarity with those under attack. What a time it is in New York City to have a mayor who feels the same way. 🙏🏽💜✊🏽

📸: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office

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