Debashish Bhattacharya Tour Dates in the US - Fall 2024

[Mike Auman]

He's been featured here on the forum many times, playing the six-string hollow-neck lap steel (chaturangui) he designed. This is his first US tour since 2019. If you're not familiar with his cross-cultural style, here's a 20-minute interview and sample. https://youtu.be/5azXWuW5Py4

North American tour dates:
Sep 20-21 Chicago, IL
Sep 22 Minneapolis, MN
Sep 25 Ft.Collins, CO
Sep 28 - Chapel Hill, NC
Sep 28 - Durham, NC (Evening)
Sep 29 - Topanga, CA
Oct 4 - Torrance, CA
Oct 10 - Stanford, CA
Oct 13 - Mill Valley, CA
Oct 15 - Portland, OR
Oct 16 - Seattle, WA
Oct 19 - Liberty, NY
Oct 20 - Brooklyn, NY
Oct 24 - New York City, NY
Oct 25 - Scranton, PA
Oct 27 - Somerville, MA
Oct 28 - Portsmouth, NH
Nov 01 - Bar Harbor, ME
Nov 02 - Brooksville, ME
Nov 15 - Detroit, MI

More tour details, ticket info etc. at https://www.debashishbhattacharya.com/tour-dates

[Mike Neer]

I'll be at the Oct 24 show at Joe's Pub if anyone wants to say hello.

[Nic Neufeld]

Alas, nowhere near enough to me!

I did see Vishwa Mohan Bhatt in Lawrence KS years ago (before I was even into steel guitar).

And his chaturangui is WELL north of six strings! I think it is something like 24? Most of them are not played with the bar...the taraf or sympathetics just ring out from vibration and the jawari bridge, the chikari (sometimes called drone strings) are tuned to usually the root and sometimes 5th or 4th of the raag and are played directly, but not barred.

[David Mason]

Colorado -> North Carolina -> California(?)
Washington-Oregon -> New Yawk/East Coast -> Detroit(?)
I hope he's gettin' paid by the note....

[Tom Keller]

For anyone that hasn't seen Debashish he's incredible.

[Mike Babyak]

Colorado -> North Carolina -> California(?)
Washington-Oregon -> New Yawk/East Coast -> Detroit(?)
I hope he's gettin' paid by the note....

The NC show was actually an unexpected one off. He got a last minute offer to do a well-compensated private event in the morning, so we scrambled to book him for a public performance somewhere close by the same evening. Found a beautiful sort of boutique studio in Durham. Sold out, too.

There are a few more new dates that have been added to the last weeks of the tour before he hits Detroit.

Nov 7 Colorado Springs
Nov 8 Colorado Springs
Nov 10 Scotts Valley, CA
Nov 15, Detroit

https://www.debashishbhattacharya.com/tour-dates

He's got a new record coming out in a few months, so he'll be back in the US in the Spring. This time his son is coming along--he's turning out to be a badass, too.