Sangati Center

The Sangati Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit chamber music venue and community center focused on Indian classical music in San Francisco. Founded in 2006 by Gautam Tejas Ganeshan, the Sangati Center has since hosted over 200 public, sliding-scale admission (no-one turned away for lack of funds) concerts of Indian classical music, making it one of th... e most active and unique venues of its kind in San Francisco - a public art-house focused on a traditional art form. On average, concerts attract between 15 - 40 guests, meaning that the Sangati Center has served more than 7000 listeners in its three-year history, some of whom have been introduced for the first time to one of the world's most subtle, rigorous, and beautiful art forms. Not only have some of the greatest artists in the robust worldwide community of Indian classical music been brought to San Francisco to perform in its beautiful, small performance space [click here for a complete list of artists], where no listener is more than a few feet from the musicians, and where all concerts are presented acoustically (no sound-systems or electric instruments), but many from the Bay Area's own startlingly vibrant community of concert-level musicians can be found performing at the Sangati Center regularly. Originally located in Oakland, the Sangati Center grew and moved to its current location early in 2007, where it has since become known for its innovative approach to serving a traditional art form through presenting frequent public performances - on average 6 per month - and to growing the community of listeners through active outreach involving but not limited to a presence on public radio stations (KPFA, KUSF, KALW, KALX, Resonance FM - London), interviews and on-the-air performances on public access television, reviews and other coverage in the newspapers and weeklies (e.g. SF Chronicle Datebook Front Page Review - Feb. 26, 2008), and through collaborations with other arts organizations, such as a co-presentation with the Asian Art Musem (SF) of concerts at ...Read More