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After last year's blockbuster performance, the duo of Hank Heaven on guitar and Naren Budhakar on tabla return with refreshed indie pop licks accompanied by sonically rich tabla grooves.

Naren Budhakar was born into the music tradition of India and began performing at a young age. A disciple of Tabla Maestro Ustad Shabbir Nisar, Naren has played with prominent instrumentalists, vocalists and dancers including Pandit Birju Maharaj, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Pandit Jasraj and Shaed Parvez and has performed at prestigious venues in the U.S. and Europe. He has provided Tabla accompaniment for various musical genres and has played with La Monte Young and Bobby Mc Ferrin and recorded with Alicia Keys. Naren is co-director of the East-West School of Music and as a faculty member teaches and performs regularly.

Hank Heaven was raised in New York’s Hudson Valley to a family of professional musicians. They emerged as a guitar wunderkind, enamored with the swing music of yore. Django Reinhardt was a specialty. Still a teenager, they toured the world with jazz bands before m becoming a guitarist in the modern ranks of magnetic indie acts. But songwriting is now an essential part of their art and their being, the lens through which they see themselves in the world. And the struggles in these songs are not just Hank’s, of course. If you’ve never wobbled on the complicated precipices between being fun and being good, between growing up and getting wild, have you ever really lived?