In the Same Room unites CapU Choirs and featured artists for an evening of cultural sharing through song, April 11
Saina Khaledi and Shruti Ramani are among the talented musicians joining the program of Baroque music, contemporary Indigenous songs, and beyond
CapU Choirs
BlueShore at CapU presents CapU Choirs: In the Same Room on April 11 at 7:30 pm
A CONCEPT FROM Stó:lō Elder Lee Maracle is the grounding force behind an upcoming concert: “We must be in the same room to create a shared future.”
At BlueShore at CapU, an epic evening of storytelling, song, and cultural sharing on April 11 will bridge Baroque, Indigenous, Persian, and Indian music with popular and jazz sounds. The choral experience, called In the Same Room, is set to unite CapU Choirs with featured artists that local audiences may remember from standout listening experiences here over the past couple of years.
Among the talent on the program is Iranian santour virtuoso Saina Khaledi. She’s a frequent collaborator of Music on Main, having played in The Tempest Project in 2024, a unique concert in which audience members followed musicians around as they performed in the stairwells, basement, and dressing rooms of the Vancouver Playhouse. Khaledi’s own celebratory composition “My Beloved”, a Persian song for Yalda night inspired by her father, premiered late last year at Christmas With Chor Leoni.
Joining Khaledi is jazz and Hindustani singer Shruti Ramani, who’s the leader of the Juno Award–nominated Indo-jazz-fusion quartet Raagaverse—which has played everywhere from a Kay Meek Arts Centre album-release party to a Vancouver International Jazz Festival collaboration with Cassius Khan on Granville Island.
Expert tabla player Sunny Matharu and emerging singer Edmund Lau round out the featured artists.
In the Same Room will set Baroque music by Vivaldi alongside fresh Indigenous choral pieces by Sherryl Sewepagaham and Corey Payette, bringing Maracle’s concept of a shared future to life.
Hussein Janmohamed, a faculty member at Capilano University’s music diploma program, will lead the concert as conductor and artistic director. The music starts at 7:30 pm—so make sure you’re in the room. 
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