Catskill Mountain Gamelan has been performing since 2012 at locations

throughout the Hudson Valley, performing traditional Indonesian music,

original songs and arrangements.  We return this season with new

members featuring, Ashley Enright, Sue Kiel, Alex Letourneau, Amy

Recchia, Alvaro Romao, Annmarie Tedeschi, and Julien Valenstein, led

by Dorcinda Knauth.

At our Sept 20 show, expect to hear some beloved Sundanese classics, a

retelling of a trickster story: Kancil, and even see some

Turkish-gamelan fusion dance.

They’ll be playing on The Rose Blossom Gamelan, a red and gold West

Javanese gamelan built in 2012 by master builder Asep Ahum.  It is

tuned to the pentatonic (Five-tone) scale called degung.  Gamelan

would typically be used in Indonesia for playing ceremonial music,

accompanying elaborate all-night long puppet shows that double as

providing social or political commentary, or accompanying important

life cycle events like weddings. Hope you can come!