Sandeep Das and Mike Block will perform at Penn State Behrend on Feb. 4 as part of Music at Noon: The Logan Series. Credit: Photo provided. All Rights Reserved.

Behrend

Music at Noon: The Logan Series

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM / February 04, 2025

Music at Noon: The Logan Series continues Feb. 4 with a free performance by “East Meets West,” a cross-genre duo featuring Sandeep Das and Mike Block. The concert, in Penn State Behrend’s McGarvey Commons, begins at noon; the performance is free and open to the public.

Das and Block met as members of Yo-Yo Ma’s Grammy Award-winning Silkroad Ensemble. They perform on cello and tabla, which are Indian drums, with rhythmic vocals. The duo has performed across North America and India, including at Carnegie Hall.

Their debut album, “Where the Soul Never Dies,” includes music from the western classical and North Indian Hindustani traditions, including original compositions.

Music at Noon: The Logan Series was founded by Kay Logan in 1989 and is supported by a $1 million endowment by the Kay Hardesty Logan Foundation. The series was designed to strip away the mystique that often is attached to professional chamber music. The lunchtime concerts, which are presented in McGarvey Commons, in the college’s Reed Union Building, are informal, and a portion of the seating is reserved for students from Erie’s Diehl Elementary School.

To learn more about the series, visit the Music at Noon website.