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The
Gurmat Sangeet Project |
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Dedicated
to the Preservation & Propagation of Gurmat Sangeet |
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Sevadars
The Gurmat Sangeet Project is a volunteer effort. This Website has been in development since late 2002; however work on collecting recordings started several years ago even when no clear delivery mechanism existed for these recordings.
Rony Sodhi |
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Rony Sodhi is
a Senior Software Engineer at a Boston Area company. He has contributed
significantly to this Website by providing technical assistance. |
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Simer Sodhi |
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Simer Sodhi is
a Graduate Student at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
She was the primary consultant during the development of this website,
providing insights into web design and programming. Simer is working
on a Masters in Education at UMAss. |
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| Gurleen Kaur | |||
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Gurleen Kaur, part of the Gurmat
Sangeet Project, Boston Chapter, was a Beta Tester for this
site. She helped uncover many bugs before the site went live. |
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| Devinder Singh Rekhi | |||
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Devinder Singh
Rekhi is a volunteer teacher at the Boston Chapter of the Gurmat
Sangeet project. He performs the difficult Seva of introducing children
who are starting out to the concepts of notes and Ragas. Devinder
Singh came up with the idea of the Free CD Project and helped execute
it, taking responsibility for the logistics of the distribution
at NYC. |
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Sarbpreet Singh |
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Sarbpreet Singh
is a Boston based executive in the Data Communications industry.
He is the co-ordinator of the Gurmat Sangeet Project and the author
of the content on this website. Sarbpreet Singh has a deep interest
in Gurmat Sangeet as well as Hindustani Classical music. Sarbpreet
greatly enjoys spending time with the children of the Gurmat Sangeet
project, teaching them shabads and playing 'Guess the Raga' games
with them. He was introduced to Gurmat Sangeet in the early 90s
by Bhai Nazar Singh of Milwaukee and
is now an errant and irregular student of Warren
Senders. He has had the privilege of offering Kirtan Seva at
various Boston area programs over the past few years. He can be
reached at sarbpreet@comcast.net |
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Key Contributors The Gurmat Sangeet Project would like to acknowledge the following key contributors, who have provided singificant content to the website. Their efforts are much appreciated. We hope that many more contributors will step forward and help enhance this effort. |
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| Navjot Singh | |||
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Navjot Singh works with one of the leading research labs in New Jersey as Research Scientist. His musical interests are many and varied, but he specially enjoys recording and archiving Gurmat Sangeet rendered in Ragas, and learning Hindustani Classical Music on Mandolin. His recordings are digital, and he strives to capture the mood created by Kirtan performed in Ragas by varying the recording equipment to suit the Ragis’ style. Navjot is also an accomplished photographer. He has contributed all the recordings and photograps featured on the Bhai Amrik Singh Zakhmi page. During a recent trip to India (2005) Navjot met with S.Paramjot Singh Ji, an accomplished kirtaniya and a student of the late Bhai Sahib Samund Singh Ji. Navjot obtained some recordings by the legendary Bhai Sahib Samund SIngh Ji, cleaned up the audio files and made them available to be hosted on this website. |
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| Baljit Singh Bhikhu | |||
Baljit Singh
Bhikhi ia s a lover of Gurmat Sangeet from Canada. He was kind enough
to contribute a large archive of recordings by Bhai Sahib Dharam
Singh Zakhmi to the Gurmat Sangeet Project. |
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| Parminder Kaur | |||
Parminder Kaur
is a volunteer teacher at the Sunday School program at the Milford
Gurdwara in Massachussetts, and does a fine job teaching young children
Punjabi. She has been working diligently at transcribing Gurmat
Sangeet articles from various publications for inclusion in this
website. She is also the mother of Deepinder Singh, who is part
of the Boston Chapter of the Gurmat
Sangeet Project. |
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| Surinder Singh | |||
Surinder Singh
is a lover of Gurmat Sangeet from the West Coast . A CPA by profession,
he grealty enjoys Gurmat Sangeet, Hindustani Classical and Western
Classical Music. He is very close to Bhai Sahib Avtar Singh Ji and
other eminent Kirtaniyas. He generously contributed the recordings
by Bhai Santa Singh Ji, hosted on this site. |
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