Hailed as “among modern music’s most compelling vocalists” (The Wall Street Journal), ganavya brings her genre-defying sound to Noe Music in celebration of her deeply personal new album, Nilam (out May 25, 2025). Drawing from South Indian classical traditions, jazz, and devotional song, ganavya’s music resists boundaries and invites stillness. Joined by bassist Max Ridley and harpist Charles Overton, she offers an evening of intimate, soulfully expansive music—an honest expression of ancestry, gratitude, and the quiet power of connection.

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Noe After Dark: ganavya

Noe Valley Ministry

In this collaborative performance, Professor Rajna Swaminathan (mrudangam, voice), ganavya doraiswamy (voice), and Utsav Lal (piano) explore multiple intersections among South Asian music, jazz/creative music, and other sound worlds. Having performed in one another's projects over the years, the trio format brings their creative voices into deeper dialogue. Original compositions by each artist will be featured, interwoven with expansive improvisations and innovative arrangements of music from their influences.

Rajna Swaminathan, Ganavya & Utsav Lal

University of California, Irvine

With one foot firmly planted in jazz and the other in hip-hop and R&B, trumpeter Keyon Harrold has thrived by effortlessly navigating the kindred musical currents. Hailed as “the future of the trumpet” by Wynton Marsalis and mentored by trumpeter Charles Tolliver, Harrold has established himself as an improviser, vocalist, songwriter, producer, and studio ace via his work on recordings by Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Gregory Porter, and Maxwell. Robert Glasper recruited him to supply the trumpet work in Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead, and his latest album and Concord Jazz debut Foreverland, was released in February.  

Keyon Harrold / Immanuel Wilkins' Blues Blood

SFJAZZ Center

The inheritor of many traditions, virtuosic vocalist, composer, and scholar Ganavya brings together beloved ones to create an experience that sits comfortably in the nexus of them all—a sonic gathering in love, prayer, and play. “Let’s go out and play,” she entices, as she uses a song-making technologies taught to her in childhood, turning poetry into prayer.

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Joe's Pub

Sunny Jain (of Red Baraat) reimagines the soundtrack of his childhood—Jain Bhajans (devotional songs), progressive rock, and jazz. Drums, voice, and ethereal soundscapes coalesce in this meditative, transcendent evening of music.

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Nov 21, 2025

Noe After Dark: ganavya · Noe Music

Feb 28, 2025

Rajna Swaminathan, Ganavya & Utsav Lal · UCI Department of Music

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