Bay Area based blues musician Aki Kumar is bringing his innovative “Bollywood Blues” style of music to The California in Santa Rosa twice in the next few months.
First, he’ll be the guest artist at Donny Mederos’ Monday Night Pro Jam on Monday, Jan. 5, which will serve to whet one’s whistle for his birthday bash happening on Saturday, March 14.
Born in Mumbai, India, Kumar (full name, Akarsha Kumar) was introduced to a multitude of musical styles at an early age, including rock and roll, Indian classical music, modern pop and Bollywood film scores. These early flavors continued to marinate in Kumar as he immigrated to America in the late ’90s with a more serious line of work in mind, computer science…