FREE with Pay-What-You-Wish Admission 
Sculpture Terrace, Gundlach Building

Enjoy music on the Sculpture Terrace as part of M&T FIRST FRIDAYS with a different local musical act each month! 

Join us for a performance by Naryan Padmanabha. 

About Naryan Padmanabha: 

With a musical career spanning 25 years and 15 albums, Naryan Padmanabha is continuously refining his sound as an innovative fusion sitar performer. He has been booked alongside the Buffalo Philharmonic, The String Cheese Incident, Lotus, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Toubab Krewe, Bernie Worrell (Funkadelic, Talking Heads), Jennifer Hartwick & Natalie Cressman (Trey Anastasio Band), Garaj Mahal, Fareed Haque, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Steve Kimock, Andre Manga, Max Creek, Melvin Seals and JGB, Family FUNKtion, and the Sitar Jams. He has also recorded with the world-renowned North Indian Classical vocalist V.J. Kichlu and South Indian percussionist T.S. Nandakumar. He is widely considered the go-to sitarist of Western New York and continues to please audiences with his ability to create soundscapes out of deep fusion grooves, earthly beats, resonating melodies, and elevated improvised solos.