World percussionist and sound innovator Tom Teasley returns to Southwest Virginia with renowned bansuri flutist John Wubbenhorst for a concert of transcendent world fusion. Wubbenhorst’s deeply expressive bansuri flute meets Teasley’s dynamic palette of frame drums, hybrid drum kits, and live looping.

 

Blending the meditative beauty of Indian classical raga with the rhythmic vitality of global percussion, Raga and Rhythm offers an improvisational exploration across cultures. The duo utilizes raga (from Sanskrit, meaning “color” or “passion”), one of the ancient traditional melodic patterns in Indian music that provides a framework for improvisation and composition.

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Tom Teasley performs a journey of world music and innovative percussion techniques. This critically acclaimed, award-winning artist has traveled the globe, worked with the National Symphony, and served as artist-in-residence at the Kennedy Center. He’s been called "a percussionist in the widest and most exuberant sense of the word, musical wizard and multi-instrumental genius" by The Washington Post.

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John Wubbenhorst is an eclectic world music pioneer who masters both the Western flute and the bansuri (North Indian Bamboo flute). John’s decades of instruction from internationally acclaimed Indian flutist Hariprasad Chaurasia and many years of experience with Western greats such as Paul Horn, Jack DeJohnette,

and Victor Wooten have made him a unique force on the world music scene.​

 

This project was supported, in part, by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

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Pro-Art partners with a variety of venues, for accessibility inquiries or general questions, call (276) 376-4520 or email contact@proartva.org. For weather related updates, patrons are encouraged to check proartva.org for real-time information.

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Pro-Art is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the C. Bascom Slemp Foundation, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, and Mountain Empire Community College.

 

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