Update: Contest Closed. Here's a chance to win a pair of tickets to this Thursday's Matcha at the Asian Art Museum, featuring Balinese Jazz Guitar. Email your full name to [email protected] and include Matcha in the subject heading, and the fifth entrant wins the tickets.
MATCHA: Balinese Jazz Guitar
Thursday, June 30, 5-9 pm, Asian Art Museum
6:30 & 7:30 pm performances
ONLY $10 (includes admission to Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance)
Join the Asian Art Museum for a night of music with Indonesia’s fastest guitarist, I Wayan Balawan, who will perform his signature blend of traditional Balinese music and jazz. Well-known for his ability to play a double-neck guitar and his touch-tapping technique, he’s released three albums and tours all over the world. Watch Balawan in action here and here.
Also, check out the critically acclaimed Bali (recently reviewed in the New York Times), mingle over cocktails, embark on a docent tour, stroll the galleries, and drop in on casual interactive 30-minute gamelan workshops with Gamelan Sekar Jaya.