Join us for an evening of celebrating a collaboration between Indian classical musicians and area jazz musicians. Led by pianist, Leo Coach, Infusion brings together voices from Northeast Ohio and across India to perform an exciting evening of music. Tickets for tonight are $20 each. $10 student tickets will be available at the door.

Featuring:

• Joe Culley: Tabla
• Lalit Subramanian: Vocals and Mirdangam
• Reed Simon: Violin
• Kamryn McCrory: Cello
• Leo Coach Piano

This event will also be livestreamed on BOP STOP's Youtube Channel at showtime. Accessing the stream is free but donations are encouraged and directly support the band.

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Joe Culley: Tabla

For the past 21 years Joe has been focusing his musical intent upon the tabla (drums) of India. His tabla drumming gurus are international tabla master, Ustad Zakir Hussain, tabla maestro, Ty Burhoe. He has played in a wide variety of musical contexts ranging from hardcore punk, classic rock, Latin, jazz, etc. He has toured with blues legend Robert Jr. Lockwood. Joe's jazz fusion group Osmosis has played many concerts and festivals over its 8-year span opening for many of the jazz greats.

Lalit Subramanian- Mridangam:

Lalit Subramanian is a well sought after performer, composer and educator of Indian Classical Music in the US. Hailing from a family of connoisseurs and performers. Lalit grew up in Pune and has trained under masters such as Neyveli Santanagoalan, Thiruvarur Girish, Shekhar Kumbhojkar and Alamelu Mani. He has performed at various prestigious venues in the US such as the Kennedy Center for performing arts (Washington, D.C.), Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles, CA), Lied Center (Lawrence, KA), Maltz Performing Arts (Cleveland, OH) and various venues in India and also as a recording artist in many cross-genre collaborations.

Reed Simon: Violin

Reed Simon is an exhibiting painter, educator as well as a professional jazz violinist. Reed has been fortunate to have worked with many of Cleveland's top jazz musicians over the years and has been on area stages including Nighttown warming up for artists such as French guitarists Olli Soikkeli and Stephane Wremble. In 2021, Reed was a guest artist with the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Paul Ferguson and backed up New York based French jazz group “Nuage Rhythms:” Reed was an Associate Professor and head of the Fine Arts Department at Notre Dame College in South Euclid, Ohio, where he taught both studio Art and Design as well as Graphic Design

Kamryn McCrory: Cello

Kamryn McCrory is a classical cellist from Cleveland, Ohio. For the last sixteen years, Ms. McCrory has been involved in several music programs beginning with a Cleveland State University School of Music program called 'The String Project' in 2010. From 2013-2015, she was a member of a start-up program called 'El Sistema @ University Circle' which prompted her relationship with The Cleveland Orchestra. From 2017-2019, Ms. McCrory was a member of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO) and performed across Europe in four countries in June 2019. Currently, Ms. McCrory is a senior at Cleveland State University and working with Mr. Charles Bernard of The Cleveland Orchestra. She is expected to graduate with her Bachelor of Music in Performance in May 2025.

Leo Coach: Piano

Mr. Coach has performed and composed music in a variety of different genres with musicians from around the world. European performance highlights include the Ljubljana Jazz Festival, the Jazz Lent Music Festival in Slovenia; The Custard Factory Music Series in Birmingham, England and at Club 54 in Heidelberg, Germany. In America he has done concerts at The Kool Jazz Festival, The Tri-C Jazz Fest, the Eneke Festival, The Thyagaraja Festival and Stifel Arts Jazz Series. Leo has an extensive discography working in many different genres from theater pieces, poetry collaborations, Latin Jazz and Salsa and Carnatic music. Leo is currently head of the Ursuline Music Program and also teaches courses in Ethnomusicology/World Music at CSU