Space Music Atmospheres Collide

with Tibetan Buddhist Chant

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Steve Tibbets and Choying Drolma: Chö

Perform Live in Philadelphia

Thursday, November 5th, 1998

8:00PM

St. Mary's Church
3916 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA

Click here for Directions to the church

Tickets will be available at the door
$15 general admission.
Student discount with ID.

For more information, e-mail: Jeff Towne

Choying Drolma and the nuns of Nagi Gompa, a Buddhist nunnery in the foothills of the Himalayas, sing songs that have been passed down in an unbroken living tradition for hundreds of years. In 1994, guitarist Steve Tibbetts visited their remote monastery and recorded their music, which he later framed with elegant and restrained arrangements to create a stunning recording called Chö, released on Hannibal Records.

Now for the first time, Steve Tibbetts and Choying Drolma are performing a small number of live concerts in select cities. For Choying and two other nuns from the Nagi Gompa nunnery in Nepal, this will not only be their first concert tour, it will be the first time they perform these chants in public, for anyone.

This rare opportunity to hear a live performance of traditional Tibetan Buddhist chanting, transformed by the sonic atmospheres of Steve Tibbetts, will come to Philadelphia on Thursday, November 5, 1998, in the peaceful surroundings of Saint Mary's Church on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. The Church is at 3916 Locust Walk, between Walnut and Spruce, and 39th and 40th streets.

Accompanying the chanting, guitarist Steve Tibbetts and percussionist Marc Anderson create a soundscape that ranges from serene to surreal. Tibbetts is a reknowned guitarist with such critically-accliamed recordings on the ECM jazz label as "Yr", "Northern Song", "Safe Journey", "Exploded View", and "Big Map Idea". Long-time collaborator Marc Anderson has appeared on most of Tibbetts's albums, and has his own CD of world-music fusions called "Timefish" on the EastSide Digital label.

Tibbetts's musical colleague on the CD "Chö", Choying Drolma, was born in Kathmandu in 1971 to Tibetan exiles who fled the Cultural Revolution (and their homeland) in 1959.  At the age of twelve, Choying asked her father to allow her to pursue the monastic life. She was accepted as a nun and student at the Nagi Gompa nunnery under the tutelage of Lama Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, one of the greatest teachers of nonconceptual meditation and a resident of the nunnery for 34 years. Up until his death in 1996, Rinpoche instructed Choying in monastic rituals and meditation and taught her many of the chants and feast songs which appear on the CD "Cho" and will be performed live at this concert. Tibetans do not regard this music as folk music, but rather perceive the depth of meaning in these songs as capable of enhancing understanding and transforming ordinary experience.

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Other U.S. concert dates for Steve Tibbetts and Choying Drolma:

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