Join us for a program of music, dance and verse with Samia Mahbub Ahmad, Aditi Sadia Rahman, Debu Nayak, Samara Elahi and Ariana Elahi at the Gandhi Memorial Center. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and currently a resident of Maryland (USA),

Dr. Samia Mahbub Ahmad is a Hindustani (North Indian) classical vocal musician who has been studying, teaching and performing this ancient 5000 year-old genre of music of the Vedic times, live and on television in North America, South Asia and Southern Africa for the past two decades. Samia continues to practice this art form as: an independent artist; a Master Artist of the Maryland State Arts Council, the Arts and Humanities Council of the Montgomery County; and as an arts-in-education consultant serving the Washington DC metro areas and beyond. These include the Smithsonian Institute; Strathmore Music-in-the-Mansion; as a winner of the Montpelier Arts Center Classical Recital Series Competition, 2010-12; many leading universities, both within the US and other countries.