Returning Sunday October 11th	Caravan   Caravan is a multicultural improvisational collaboration that explores the music's of Africa, Ireland, Brazil, India, Spain, the Middle East, and beyond. Originally formed as a faculty trio at Bridgewater State College, Caravan is a musical synergy of diverse backgrounds. Percussionist Salil Sachdev is a native of India, whose percussion experience ranges from classical to African, to Indian… to anywhere that percussion is an interesting and meaningful part of life. Guitarist Rohde studied classical guitar at Ithaca College and at New England Conservatory, but his recent explorations focus mostly on the rich variety of guitar-based music in Brazil. Susan Gedutis Lindsay was originally trained as a jazz saxophonist, but expanded her reach into Irish flute and whistle. Caravan is none of these styles individually, all of them at once, and much more. It’s the musical expression of true interculturalism. Both Sachdev and Gedutis Lindsay are residents of Plymouth, Massachusetts
	About the Artists: Salil Sachdev has composed music for a variety of media including the orchestra, percussion, piano, theater, voice, and electronic music. He also directs Khakatay, the West African drumming ensemble at Bridgewater State College. Salil is considerably involved with world music, particularly that of India and West Africa.  His interest and research in world music has taken him to various parts of India, Ireland and Africa.  He has studied West African (Djembe) drumming, hand percussion, and Solkattu - the rhythmic solfege language of South India.  In 2006 he completed a documentary film on the music of the Sidis, an ethnic group of East African ancestry living in India since the last 800 - 900 years.  Currently Salil is completing a film on the traditional music of Mali, West Africa.  Salil plays the the Frame drum and the Djembe (West African drum).  He also continues to experiment with unconventional percussion "instruments" like metal bowls and non-traditional hand percussion. He holds a D.M.A. University of Miami, M.M. Ohio University, M.A. Northwestern University, and B.A. Delhi University Susan Gedutis Lindsay plays traditional Irish flute and whistle as well as alto and baritone saxophones. She performs regularly in the area with the Lindsays, a Celtic acoustic duo with her husband Stephen. She also plays baritone saxophone with the jazz big band Stage Door Canteen of Cape Cod, with award-winning children’s entertainer Debbie and Friends, and with the wacky folk/contra dance band Einstein¹s Little Homunculus. Susan is author of See You at the Hall: Boston¹s Golden Era of Irish Music and Dance (Northeastern University Press, 2004). She teaches in the Music Department at Bridgewater State College, and for several years was the Irish music reporter for the Boston Irish Reporter newspaper. Today, she does extensive freelance writing and editing for several departments at Berklee College of Music. She edits online courses for Berkleemusic.com, the college's online continuing education division. She also assists in curriculum development and writing for the Berklee Pulse Music Method, the online arm of Berklee City Music. (City Music is the college's strategic initiative to engage underserved urban 6th- through 12th-graders in a year-round music education program designed to prepare them to pursue higher education.) Her writing appears quarterly in Berklee Today, the college's alumni publication. Susan completed her Master of Music in Ethnomusicology at Tufts University in Boston, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in music from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts Thomas Rohde, guitarist, has performed throughout the United States, Brazil and Taiwan as a soloist and chamber musician. Select performances include the 92nd Street Y in New York City, the Spoletto Festival in Charleston, SC, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Ryles Jazz Club.  He has performed with the New World Symphony, the New Bedford Symphony and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s production of the opera Angels in America. Mr. Rohde’s performance and research interests cross the boundaries between classical, world music and jazz.  From 1997-2004 he was a member of the New World Guitar Trio with whom he recorded the CD, Exiled, released in 2000.  He has also played as a percussionist with the Cornell University Javanese Gamelan Ensemble, the Boston based Brazilian drumming groups Samba Tremeterra and Butakaxé and as a tenor banjo player with the Happy Feet Dance Orchestra. Currently, he performs regularly with Choro Democrático, an all-acoustic seven-piece ensemble that plays Choro, a popular Brazilian instrumental style.  Rohde holds a Bachelor of Music in guitar performance from Ithaca College and Master of Music degree (with honors) in guitar performance from New England Conservatory.  He has conducted extensive research on Brazilian music, by traveling and studying percussion, dance and guitar in Brazil and the U.S. and has written several entries about Brazilian music in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music, to be published in Fall 2008. .