Description:
VidyA performs "Charukesi" a piece based on the raga of the same name at the Million Fishes Artist Collective in San Francisco, California on March 23, 2007. The performance was a collaboration with poet Alyssa Nickell, who is featured in other videos from the same performance."VidyA's music breathes at the very center of a cultural crossroads between the North American jazz idiom and the Carnatic music of South India.

Keywords:
carnatic, jazz, indian, classical, music, saxophone, drums, bass, acoustic, violin, prasant, sameer, david, gautam, vidya