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Tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain is a global icon of Indian classical music.

Other than his friendly rival Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly was perhaps the person most synonymous with the golden age of the movie musical. Most everyone knows about Singing in the Rain, but one of Genes most technically difficult dance scenes is from another movie, Summer Stock. That movie almost did not happen in part because of Genes very famous costar. The new book Come On, Get Happy is about the making of Summer Stock. The authors are film historians David Fantle and Tom Johnson. They spoke to WFYIs Ray Steele.

Briah Golder is a percussionist from Indy. She recorded her first album at the age of 16. She is performing at Daptoberfest in Indianapolis at the Edna Martin Christian Center this Saturday, October 14. Besides sharing her gift with her fans, she is helping to teach other young people to embrace their own artistic gifts through a nonprofit called BRAVE. Briah Golder spoke to WFYIs Ray Steel.

The stars of the play Grandmothers Incorporated are exactly what the title of the play implies. Grandmothers Incorporated was written by a pair of local writers; Crystal V. Rhodes and Lily Barnett Evans, and it's about to be performed in Indianapolis for the very first time at the Phoenix Theatre Cultural Center. Sandra Gay, the director of the play and two of its stars Betty Meriweather and Larry Keough joined WFYIs Ray Steele to talk about it.

For a little over a decade, Time For Three helped redefine the concert experience with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. As the Artists In Residence with the ISO, they created the Happy Hour concert series, melding classical music with hip hop, rock and pop and any other genre you can think of, bringing a party atmosphere to the Hilbert Circle Theatre, while firmly maintaining their classically trained roots. Now, Time For Three is returning to Indianapolis for the first time as Grammy winners, performing this weekend with the ISO. Time For Three is Nick Kendall and Charles Yang on violi...