2020 Addison Street / Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 644-2020 / info@freightandsalvage.org
The Box Office window is open 12:30pm-7pm and during all performances.
2020 Addison Street / Berkeley, CA 94704 The Box Office window is open 12:30pm-7pm and during all performances.
Harry Manx
Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 8:00 pm (doors open at 7:00 pm)an addictive marriage of blues tradition & Indian ragas
$20.50 advance / $22.50 at doorPurchase tickets online November 07 8:00 pm
Born on the Isle of Man, Harry immigrated to Ontario with his parents when he was six. He started doing sound at age 15 and gradually worked his way up to becoming a regular sound man at the well-known El Mocambo club in Toronto, where he worked with a slew of blues legends. He went to Europe at 20 and made a living as a busker, then traveled to India and studied for five years with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, the inventor of the 20-stringed Mohan Veena, Harry’s signature instrument. “Sometimes I’d throw in some blues licks in the middle,” he says of his time in India, “and everyone would fall over laughing and enjoying themselves. And I thought if I can get Indian people to enjoy Western music like that, then maybe I could get Westerners to enjoy Indian music, too.” Harry has released ten albums in the last dozen years, including his latest, Strictly Whatever. East meets West and Berkeley meets British Columbia when Harry brings his passionate playing and smoky, soulful voice to the Freight for a delicious masala of raga and blues. Listen to a track from Harry Manx:
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