The Cedar Presents
YUNGCHEN LHAMO with Broken Caterpillar
Saturday, October 12, 2024/ Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM
All Ages
Seated
$28 Advance, $32 Day of Show
This is a seated show with general admission, first-come-first-served seating. The Cedar is happy to reserve seats for patrons who require special seating accommodations. To request access accommodations, please go to our Access page.
For Cedar-presented shows, online ticket sales typically end one hour before the door time, and then, based on availability, tickets will be available at the door.
listen
Yungchen Lhamo recently joined us for an interview in anticipation of her show here at The Cedar Cultural Center on Saturday, October 12, 2024. She shares with us her personal, resilient and practiced life journey.
ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Cedar is honored to welcome back world-renowned, award-winning Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo. Her seventh album, ‘One Drop of Kindness’, was released in September 2023 by Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records and has recently been voted
the Winner in the Asia & Pacific category in the Songlines Music Awards 2024. Yungchen originally performed here in 1998 and we are delighted to witness her moving performance again, during our 35th Anniversary year.
YUNGCHEN LHAMO
Yungchen’s name, given her by a lama when she was born in Lhasa, translates as ‘Goddess of Melody’, but she always wanted to be a nun, not a singer. In 1989 she made the dangerous, month-long 1,200-mile journey, on foot across the Himalayas, to Dharamsala in India to pursue her Buddhist practice. She later moved to Australia, where her first album, ‘Tibetan Prayer’, led to her being invited to sing at WOMADelaide in 1995. That year the album won Australia’s equivalent of a Grammy, the ARIA Award for Best World Music Album.
After being signed by Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records label, Yungchen released three more albums: ‘Tibet, Tibet’, ‘Coming Home’, and ‘Ama’, which featured Annie Lennox on ‘Fade Away’ and Joy Askew on ‘Tara’. She toured more than 80 countries on all five continents, including such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, New York; National Concert Hall, Dublin; Royal Albert Hall, London; The Louvre, Paris; International Performing Arts Centre, Moscow; The Vatican, Rome; Sori Arts Centre, Jeonju; Shinjuku Culture Centre, Tokyo; Sydney Opera House; and numerous WOMAD festivals and rock concerts. She has collaborated with many well-known artists, including Natalie Merchant, Annie Lennox, Billy Corgan, Peter Rowan, and – for her fifth album ‘Tayatha’ – with Russian classical pianist Anton Batagov.
In 2004, Yungchen established a charitable foundation to help Tibetans in need in Tibet, while today the One Drop of Kindness Foundation also supports projects in the USA, Nepal, India, and Liberia. Over the past ten years, Yungchen has spent much of her time working with homeless and mentally ill people in Upstate New York, for whom she wrote the song ‘You Are Beautiful’ and a co-titled drama that residents of a homeless shelter twice performed in public.
In 2022, Yungchen released her long-awaited sixth album, ‘Awakening’, through Six Degrees Records, which featured Spain’s flamenco legend Carmen Linares on the track ’Loving Kindness’. ‘Awakening’ was voted #27 among the 100 Best Albums of 2021-2022 on the Transglobal World Music Chart, as ranked by its global network of world music critics.
Her latest and seventh album, ‘One Drop of Kindness’, was co-produced by Yungchen with John Alevizakis at Little Buddha Studio in Nevada City, California, USA, and is available in digital, CD, and vinyl at: https://lnk.to/RW252
To learn more about YUNGCHEN LHAMO:
Broken Caterpillar
From the bits, pieces, and leftovers
of everyday meanderings,
From stretched skins, and attached strings,
What will emerge?
What will take wing from the cocoon?
Broken Caterpillar is a collaboration between Persian setar player Dan Rein and percussionist Chris Gray. The setar is a four string long neck lute from Iran. Their performances are improvisational collaborations that are created in the moment. Portions of the music have no meter, and Chris has the ability to not only play the rhythm, but also play the spaces. Listening and responding can change the flow and direction of the music and each performance is unique.
Dan has studied and played Persian Traditional music for the past thirty years, he has taken the structures and forms and used them to discover his own path. He has worked with various musicians throughout the Twin Cities, Aida Shahghasemi, Mikkel Beckmen, Adam Kiesling, Liz Draper, Josh Granowski, Charlie Parr, and Sean Egan, among others.
Chris is a Twin Cities percussionist who performs with Portal iii (Liz Draper, Charlie Parr), Doug Otto and the Getaways, The Beavers, and Luke Callen, among others.
To learn more about Broken Caterpillar:
