Dear All

This is an appeal to all music lovers and followers of traditional Indian Music.

Please go through below email from Mrs. Mary Khan (musician wife of the great maestro Ali Akbar Khan) and donate $5 to a great cause. And just if you listen to the recording, you will know how marvellous it is.

warm regards

Pooja

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Hi Pooja,

Yes, I have been very busy launching a campaign to raise the money we need to finish Khansahib's audio archive. Below is a link to the campaign site (just click on the logo) and a letter we are sending to friends to pass along to their people and fans and friends. We need everybody's support to just spread the word in order to make this happen. People all over the world can donate with Paypal, and for $5 they will receive Khansahib's incredible recording of Rag Chandranandan as a download. A 20 minute piece of music for just a $5 donation, so everybody wins. Please pass this along to your followers, and check out the site. I think you will like it.

Much love,  Mary

Dear music lovers and supporters of the arts,

We are pleased to announce the launch of a global campaign to save the life's work of Maestro Ali Akbar Khan.  The official logo of this campaign "The Maestro and Me" above will link you directly to the campaign website (www.themaestroandme.com). There you can learn about the legacy you will be helping to preserve by watching videos prepared by other world renowned musicians who were touched by his life and music, and much more.

For a donation of $5 right now, you will receive a download of one of the Maestro's greatest recordings, Raga Chandranandan. If you donate $10 or more, you will get an Mp3 and a free eBook The First Forty Years, which documents the Ali Akbar College of Music from 1967 up to the Maestro's 85th birthday in 2007.  

Your simple action can make a difference. Please forward this message onward, post it on Facebook, Twitter (the campaign's twitter account is @maestro_and_me if you're tweeting it) and/or put it on your website or blog with the attached campaign logo. We need your help to get the message out, so the whole world will have the opportunity to be touched by his music.  We sincerely appreciate your generosity and assistance.  

Sincerely yours,

~Ali Akbar Khan Library, Staff and Volunteers

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Mary Khan
Director and Library Manager
Ali Akbar College of Music
415 454-6372
415 456-5963
www.aacm.org