For the first time ever, Simrit joins a live orchestra for a one-night-only immersive experience in New York City, where her evocative and healing music will be reimagined through expansive orchestral arrangements. Simrit will perform with the Live Room Orchestra under the direction of award-winning composer and conductor Jackson A. Waters.
Created specifically for this special performance, Simrit’s music takes on a new dimension while preserving the intimacy, beauty, and spiritual resonance that have connected with listeners around the world. This unique collaboration blends cinematic strings, rich textures, and live orchestration into an emotionally immersive evening unlike anything Simrit’s audiences have experienced before, offering a completely new way to experience her elegant, powerful, and deeply transportive music.
This special NYC premiere marks the first time Simrit’s catalog has been arranged and performed with an orchestra.
Neo-Psychedelic World Beat & Ethereal Wave band SIMRIT is creating waves with packed theaters and concert halls, chart-topping albums, and raving fans world-wide, powering a palpable musical movement. Transcending genres with their eclectic and eccentric blend of instruments and lineages, the SIMRIT experience is based around lead singer-songwriter, Simrit Kaur, born in Athens, Greece and adopted by Greek Americans into South Carolina. Roots Reggae, The Grateful Dead, Mazzy Star, Led Zeppelin, among many others, have proven deeply influential as Simrit has unlocked her own unique sound. Decades of study and experimentation with Kundalini yoga deepened Simrit’s relationship with the quantum technology of Naad (nod) yoga (the ancient science of articulating specific sounds using the power of the navel and the precision of the tip of the tongue hitting different meridian points on the roof of the mouth, impacting the brain’s neural pathways and chemicals, eliciting altered states of reality); the effects of which influence her music.
Filling out the SIMRIT sound and experience is Salif Bamakora on the 21-string West African kora. Shannon Hayden on electric cello (which she runs through a pedal board with wild effects) and guitar, Jared May on bass & Moog synthesizer and Devon Ashley on drums and other percussion.
SIMRIT's music is known for its hypnotic, deep-pocket groove, haunting beauty, edge, and mind-bending atmosphere. It has been called exotic funk while also being likened to the epic, cinematic feels of David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino films.