A man performs on the tabla, wearing a striped shirt. He has dark hair and is sitting in front of a mic.

Ed Hanley
musician

Ed Hanley’s multimedia work embraces the worlds of music, video and photography. Although best known as a practitioner of tabla (the classical percussion of North India), Ed’s recent work in the visual world (including over 100 music videos) expresses the same joy, dynamism, love of collaboration, and attention to detail as his years of work as a touring and recording musician. As a tabla player, Ed has learned from some of the world’s master teachers. He is honoured to have received training from Swapan Chaudhuri, Trichy Sankaran and Suresh Talwalkar.

From the Stockholm Jazz Festival and the Jaipur Heritage Festival, to Massey Hall in Toronto and Joe’s Pub in NYC, Ed Hanley has been a featured performer at prominent music festivals and concert halls in Europe, India, the USA, and across Canada. As co-artistic director of the Canadian world music ensemble Autorickshaw, Ed has earned two Juno Award nominations, as well as the Grand Prize in the World Music category of the John Lennon Songwriting Competition.

Ed has been featured hundreds of times on stage and in the studio with a diverse range of artists. His work can be heard on soundtracks for Deepa Mehta (Funny Boy for CBC Radio) and Jonathan Goldsmith (the feature film, Such a Long Journey).

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: Ed performed with Nova Bhattachraya in Sanctum for the 2003 Choreographer’s Trust.

For more information visit ed-hanley.com.