A Platform for Ethnically and Culturally Inspired Music
ABOUT
Monsoon-Music is a collective organization founded by brothers Jonathan and Andrew Kay, and Justin Gray, to create a global platform for sharing cross-cultural expressions of traditional and modern art forms from around the world. These three globetrotting musicians are currently based in Toronto, Canada, and Kolkata, India, and for the past 8 years, Monsoon-Music has been an integral part of organizing multiple international cultural events in Canada and India.
Monsoon-Music aims to spread awareness of global unity through the nurturing of traditional art forms from around the world in their purest form, alongside their modern creative interpretation and relevant synthesis with the emerging global culture. Based on extensive worldly traveling and many diverse cultural experiences, the members of Monsoon-Music aim to help bridge the gap between the East and West through cross-cultural interaction and sharing of common ideals, embracing only the most worthy values and traditions that these cultures offer.
Aspiring to preserve the important traditions of the old world and inspire the cultivation of creative and integral forms of holistic new world expression, Monsoon-Music has a multifaceted platform for sharing their vision:
• Traditional and creative live music performances, from large auditoriums and big stage outdoor festivals to intimate house concerts, as is the traditional Indian custom. Monsoon-Music members Jonathan & Andrew Kay, and Justin Gray have performed Indian Classical music at some of India’s most prestigious music conferences, as well as sharing their original Indo-Jazz music throughout North America and India.
• Teaching and sharing cross-cultural integration of the arts and creative holistic living through educational institutions, workshops, and private instruction. By funding and organizing workshops in remote rural areas in East India, Monsoon-Music has begun to create a dialogue that aims at bridging the traditional cultures of the East with the modern culture of the West.
• Production of artistic and interactive educational multimedia that inspires a broader perspective, a more holistic worldview, and a personal sense of responsibility in the evolving global village. Through extensive blogging and sharing of images and videos from many years of rich cultural experiences in India, Monsoon-Music has a vast archive of artistically presented multimedia.
Monsoon-Music aims to spread awareness of global unity through the nurturing of traditional art forms from around the world in their purest form, alongside their modern creative interpretation and relevant synthesis with the emerging global culture. Based on extensive worldly traveling and many diverse cultural experiences, the members of Monsoon-Music aim to help bridge the gap between the East and West through cross-cultural interaction and sharing of common ideals, embracing only the most worthy values and traditions that these cultures offer.
Aspiring to preserve the important traditions of the old world and inspire the cultivation of creative and integral forms of holistic new world expression, Monsoon-Music has a multifaceted platform for sharing their vision:
• Traditional and creative live music performances, from large auditoriums and big stage outdoor festivals to intimate house concerts, as is the traditional Indian custom. Monsoon-Music members Jonathan & Andrew Kay, and Justin Gray have performed Indian Classical music at some of India’s most prestigious music conferences, as well as sharing their original Indo-Jazz music throughout North America and India.
• Teaching and sharing cross-cultural integration of the arts and creative holistic living through educational institutions, workshops, and private instruction. By funding and organizing workshops in remote rural areas in East India, Monsoon-Music has begun to create a dialogue that aims at bridging the traditional cultures of the East with the modern culture of the West.
• Production of artistic and interactive educational multimedia that inspires a broader perspective, a more holistic worldview, and a personal sense of responsibility in the evolving global village. Through extensive blogging and sharing of images and videos from many years of rich cultural experiences in India, Monsoon-Music has a vast archive of artistically presented multimedia.
