| Bloomsburg to Bangladesh - two-person East/West fusion project that features tabla player Bulu Rahman and singer/guitarist Jeremy dePrisco. Highlights: Blues, Roots, original ballads, character songs and covers.Moonlight Masala - trio that features tabla player Bulu Rahman, singer/guitarist Jeremy dePrisco and multi-instrumentalist Tom Dennehy. Highlights humor, instrumentals. This project is a fusion of East and West, featuring khyal singing, raag and taal explorations, tarana and folk songs. | |
 Jeremy dePrisco: Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Voice & Flute (Western and Bansuri) |
Bloomsburg area composer and performer Jeremy dePrisco has released three albums of Rock and Folk-Blues material, and has been performing for 10 years. While maintaining a large repertoire of American Folk and Blues, Jeremy’s musical philosophy derives from such writers as Hazrat Inayat Khan and the music of India and Asia.
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| Bulu Rahman, from Bangladesh, has been playing tabla for 20 years and has recorded with his brother, Atique Babu. Bulu has a degree in Botany (from Dhaka University), and recently completed his Master’s in Business at Bloomsburg University.
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 Ahm Mostafizur (Bulu) Rahman: Tablas, Harmonium, Voice |
 Tom Dennehy: Voice, Tamboura, Guitar, Harmonium, Saxophone & Uke Danville multi-instrumentalist Tom Dennehy is a world traveler (India, Morocco, Japan, Spain) and has recorded three albums of original comedic and avant-garde songwriting. Tom has been performing for 10 years, and often works theatrics into his shows. (Tom is traveling in California right now.) |
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| We are available for hire for specialty restaurants, festivals, coffee shops and private parties. Our rates are reasonable and based on length of performance, size of event and location. Audition us online. Contact us today for more information. | |
Susquehanna International Folk Dancers present Kabile Traditional Wedding Band
Come and join us for an afternoon of traditional Bulgarian music and dance. Make new friends and enjoy wonderful home-made delicacies.
Go to www.sifd.blogspot.com for photos of last year’s party under the willow trees in the garden by the pond. If it’s hot , we’ll be in the air conditioned Milk Parlour Ball Room across the way until it cools off. RSVP by email or call 570-784-9339 Also forward to your dance friends, if you can.
EVENT FLYER HERE: kabile-updated
Kabile Bitov
9/3/08 – Kabile Bitov
Traditional Bulgarian wedding band, performing at Bloomsburg’s Milk
Parlour Ballroom. (Photo by Jeremy dePrisco)
Another Andean pan pipe group similar to Agua Clara. This was at the
Bloomsburg Fair in 2008. (Photo by Jeremy dePrisco)
7/24/00 Nachez River Band, New Orleans - Photo by Jeremy dePrisco
7/30/00 - Band of students playing music on the street in New Orleans, jump in a truck and continue playing. - Photo by Jeremy dePrisco
7/30/00 (unidentified guitarist) Photo by Jeremy dePrisco
Arabic Coffee Hour at Bloomsburg University. An informal presentation by
father and son against keyboard drumbeats and samples.
On the beach in Positano, Italy 2008.
9/23/06 – Roma musicians, KAL, from Serbia played an
energetic session at the Milk Parlour Ballroom. The group’s name, KAL means
“Black” in the Gypsy (or more properly Rom) language. The group performs
high-energy dance music for all generations drawing from a number of Eastern
European traditions, Balkan blues and modern rock. The lighting in the barn
is conducive to forgetting about the outside world and transporting you to
another place and time, but not so much for my digital camera. Use your
imagination. (Photo by Jeremy dePrisco)
4/09/06 – Nandini Sengupta
Bangladesh Night Bloomsburg University, PA
Nandini performs at most of the events held by the Bengal Assoc of
Bloomsburg (BABA). She specializes in Tagore song which often features nature
and spiritual themes. Nandini is working on her debut CD at Mothership
Studios. (Photo by Jeremy dePrisco)
We met Stan during the premiere of one of the Whitaker’s IMAX movies about
Greece. The movie was sold out, but we got to meet Stan and talked with him
about music a bit. He was very cordial and willing to talk about his
experiences as a musician. Here he is playing the oud. (Photo by Jeremy
dePrisco)
3/26/05 – Tibetan Monks of Drepung Loseling Institute,
Harrisburg PA.
This picture was taken during the closing of the Mandala ceremony where
the sand from the sand mandala is poured into the Susquehanna River. The
procession of onlookers and monks is accompanied by the baying of trumpets
and clamor of cymbals. Dumping the sand into the river represents
impermanence and the cycle of all things. (Photo by Jeremy dePrisco)
