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Summer 2009 :
For classes in July & August
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Music: North Indian vocal.
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"On new Cd HUGE, gorgeous vocals overdubbed with ambient drone, Electric bass & drums provide powerful rhythmic contrast" — WorldMusicCentral.

"Shweta Jhaveri is the first vocalist from Gujarat-India to present Indian classical vocal music internationally since her age of 19" — The Gujarat State academy.

"There is more to Shweta Jhaveri's singing than her deep rich contralto voice" — India Currents July 2007 Review

" Hindustani music for global ears "
— The Economic Times, India, Dec 2006

" A smile as sweet as her voice "
Review Mumbai, India

"Shweta Jhaveri is to the raga for voice what Ravi Shankar is to the raga for sitar" - World Discoveries USA, 2006
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A playful & young genius at work
— Norman Rothstein theatre , Sept. 2003 Canada

" The AACM concert season officially opened with vocalist Shweta jhaveri, masterfully presenting the repertoire to a sell-out crowd " — Ali Akbar College Newsletter CA, Aug 2003.

"Very very occasionally a voice of such outstanding quality comes along. When that voice also delivers richness of ideas" — Review UK 2002

"Por Primera vez en Argentina vocalista de musica da la India"
Review Argentina 2001

"The creative music making of the highest order" — Billboard, USA 2000

"Shweta weaves a spell"
— The Tribune, India 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Concert in the Bahamas Feb.2009

Shweta performs with Blame Sally
- The Palace of Fine Arts, SF May'09

Shweta sings for a documentary film
- April 09

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Summer classes : July & August 2009
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Shweta performs in Canada - Oct'08

Shweta Jhaveri music featured in Pt. Chitresh Das' "Master of Tradition" at Yerba Buena, SF in Sept 08

The Hindustani singer presents khayals set to afternoon and evening ragas at the JazzSchool - SF Chronicle, June2008

Shweta received the Gujarat State Academy Award from India in 2005.

Shweta's pioneer world music experimental Cd HUGE released in 2007 featuring her world music lyrics sung in Indian ragas.

Shweta is a pioneer Indian classical vocalist to be an ASCAPlus recipient (The American Society) as a singer-songwriter for her world music lyrics - New York, 2005 & 2007

Shweta received the ICC Award for outstanding contribution to Arts & Humanities at San Francisco, CA 2003

Shweta founded Cosmic Khayals & 21stCentury Cosmos in her 30s with her label's Indian classical CDs Avishkar, Khayal-Saga & world music Cds Anahita & Huge

 

 

 

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