Who we are…
At MELA, we’re believers in the power of the arts and the beauty of performing arts of the Indian subcontinent. We are artists who mean business and want to increase the presence of South Asian performing arts in the international marketplace, especially in the US and Canada, and support the artists in sharing their work. We use the arts to bring people together.
What we do…
We are the bridge builders between presenters / clients and artists. For presenters, we take care of the research, provide cultural context and insights, and remove the guesswork from booking an artist; for artists, we gets you gigs , help increase your audience base, and work on increasing the number of performance possibilities for you and South Asian performing arts as a whole.
How we do it…
We listen and take the time to understand. We work to meet everyone’s needs (that of presenters / clients and of artists). With this understanding, combined with = our cultural expertise of performing arts forms of the region, and our extensive (and growing) portfolio of artists we bring together people who should be working together.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED, WE OFFER CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE CURATED PERFORMANCES DIVERSE OPTIONS A PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
If you are looking for South Asian music or dance artists for your
we make it easy to discover and book performing artists!
Types of artists in our portfolio:
Our portfolio includes Indian classical musicians (Hindustani and Carnatic), Indian classical dancers (Bharatanatyam, Kathak, and more), Bollywood dancers and musicians, folk dancers (bhangra, garba), folk musicians, Indo-western classical ensembles, folk rock bands, Indo-jazz groups, baraat bands, and more!
A few of our clients:
