Name: Raga and Rhythm with Tom Teasley & John Wubbenhorst
Start: 2025-10-03T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Mountain Empire Community College

Raga and Rhythm with Tom Teasley & John Wubbenhorst

World percussionist and sound innovator Tom Teasley returns to Southwest Virginia with renowned bansuri flutist John Wubbenhorst for a concert of transcendent world fusion in conjunction with our 49th season and the W. Campbell Edmonds Concert Series. Wubbenhorst’s deeply expressive bansuri flute meets Teasley’s dynamic palette of frame drums, hybrid drum kits, and live looping in “Raga and Rhythm” on Friday, Oct. 3rd at 7 p.m. in the Goodloe Center at Mountain Empire Community College. Tickets are $15 at the door. Children and students will be admitted free. For more information and to make reservations, please visit proartva.org.
Blending the meditative beauty of Indian classical raga with the rhythmic vitality of global percussion, “Raga and Rhythm” offers an improvisational exploration across cultures. The duo utilizes raga (from Sanskrit, meaning “color” or “passion”), one of the ancient traditional melodic patterns in Indian music that provides a framework for improvisation and composition.
Hailed "a percussionist in the widest and most exuberant sense of the word, musical wizard and multi-instrumental genius" by The Washington Post, Tom Teasley is a critically-acclaimed, award-winning artist who has traveled the globe, worked with the National Symphony, and served as artist-in-residence at the Kennedy Center.
John Wubbenhorst is an eclectic world music pioneer who masters both the Western flute and the bansuri (North Indian Bamboo flute). John’s decades of instruction from internationally acclaimed Indian flutist Hariprasad Chaurasia and many years of experience with Western greats such as Paul Horn, Jack DeJohnette, and Victor Wooten have made him a unique force on the world music scene.
Pro-Art’s 49th season is underway, and season tickets are on sale now! The season offers an array of dance, from ballet and street to flamenco and Native American traditional, musical experiences that weave across genre, highlighting blues, jazz, beatboxing, old time, Celtic and classical, the famed Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, and theater and cultural programs to expand the palate and open the mind. Explore the season and reserve tickets at proartva.org. Season tickets can be purchased online, in person at any show, or by calling (276) 376-4520. Pro-Art is committed to making the arts accessible to everyone, if price is a barrier of entry to you, please contact us for available resources.
Pro-Art partners with a variety of venues, for accessibility inquiries or general questions, call (276) 376-4520 or email [email protected]. For weather related updates, patrons are encouraged to check proartva.org for real-time information.
This project was supported, in part, by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. The performance is additionally supported in part by The Town of Big Stone Gap and Mountain Empire Community College. Pro-Art is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the C. Bascom Slemp Foundation, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, and Mountain Empire Community College.