Don't miss "The Classical Music of North India and Pakistan: Sitar and Surbahar Concert" by Lowell Lybarger Saturday, August 14, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. here at Arts Center.  These musical instruments feature a meditative, serene sound perfectly suited to the intimate space of the Arts Center gallery.  There will be chairs and a few floor pillows for seating or you can bring your own pillows. Tickets for this event are at the special introductory price of $5.  Students with an I.D. and children under age 13 are free of charge.  

Lybarger is a music/multimedia librarian and director of the Music Lab at Arkansas Tech University.  He holds an MA in ethnomusicology from the University of Washington, an MLIS from Kent State University, and a PhD in musicology from the University of Toronto.  His PhD dissertation is an ethnography of the tabla players of Pakistani Panjab for which research was supported by the Fulbright Program and Pakistan National Council of Arts.  Lowell taught courses in musicology, library instruction, information literacy, and music technology in Lahore, Pakistan as a UNESCO consultant (2004) and  HEC visiting professor (2007) for the National College of Arts and Sanjan Nagar Institute of Philosophy and Arts.  After completing his MLIS degree in December 2006, Lowell became the technical consultant and archivist for a preservation project at Radio-Television Afghanistan, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.  In June 2008, Lowell participated in a Rotary Group Study Exchange to Misiones, Argentina and Paraguay to study libraries and music culture.