Catherine Potter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Guelph, Ontario, Canada
About Catherine Potter
- Catherine Potter (December 25, 1957 – December 3, 2010) was a Canadian musician.
- She was considered to be Canada's master bansuri player.The daughter of William Alexander Potter and Gwendolyn Dougherty, she was born in Guelph, Ontario with her twin sister Carole-Anne.
- The family, living in Windsor at the time, was visiting her maternal grandmother when the twins were born.
- Potter received a bachelor's degree in jazz studies from Concordia University and a master's degree in ethnomusicology from the Université de Montréal.
- She studied the bansuri in India with Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia.
- She also studied with various musicians in Canada and India, including Boubacar Diabaté, Simon Shaheen, Ramasutra and Ganesh Anandan.Potter released her first album Bansuri in 1997.
- In 2002, she founded the world music ensemble Duniya Project.
- The group released the album Duniya Project in 2006.In 2008, she organized a concert tour of India, with stops in Canada and Europe.
- The Deccan Herald described her as "more Indian than any Indian".Potter died in Montreal of bone cancer at the age of 52.
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