On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 07:48:40 -0800 (PST), DaleW >
wrote:

> On Jan 10, 9:47*am, "James Silverton" >
> wrote:
> > *DaleW *wrote *on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:05:59 -0800 (PST):
> >
> > >Oswaldo and Marcia were in town, and we arranged to meet them at Ten
> > >Bells on the Lower East Side. Betsy had a ziker to attend,
> >
> > Pardon my asking but what's a "ziker". I don't think I've ever come
> > across the word before.
> >
> > --
> >
> > James Silverton
> > Potomac, Maryland
> >
> > Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
>
> Ziker (Zikr, Dhikr, Zyker) is a prayer gathering in the Sufi
> tradition. In this case people who study the works of Hazrat Inayat
> Khan and Pir Vilayat Khan, Readings from various religions, poems,
> music.


Thanks for the answer, Dale. I was going to ask the same question, but
James beat me to it.


> Betsy does Northen Indian classical music as well as Western
> classical.


Does she play the Indian music on the cello, or does she also play
some other Indian instrument?

Ken

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Ken Blake