Nusantara Arts First Ever Dinner and a Show! With Heri Purwanto

Celebrate Valentines day with your lovers and friends in a way you never have before! Moonlight Gamelan Valentine features the soft beautiful music of Java and an incredible culinary experience of Indonesian Cuisine!

There are no Indonesian restaurants in Buffalo so unless you have been to Indonesia, most likely these are new flavors for you. And if you have had Indonesian food, then you know just how special it is, homecooked flavors 2full of fresh herbs and spices and featuring mouthwatering dishes that mix savory, sweet, and spicy all together. Drinks available for purchase with dinner.

The performance features our soft style Javanese gamelan which can play a range of serene and exciting music on a double tuned Bronze orchestra. We will be joined by the incredible Heri Purwanto for this performance, Nusantara Arts visiting guest artist from Java who will be concluding his month long Buffalo residency with this spectacular performance

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Heri Purwanto is a renowned Javanese drummer and musician from Central Java. He comes from a family of talented musicians and instrument builders who all learned from their father, Pak Sarno, who was himself self taught. Heri is Spending January in Buffalo as our resident guest artist, and is excited to perform a whole new selection on incredible songs from Java. Heri is a freelance musician in high demand as a performer and teacher in Java and the United States. He graduated top of his class at the prestigious STSI music school in Surakarta. Heri has taught at UC Berkeley, University of Washington, Earlham University, and in Chicago with F.R.O.G