Grammy Award-winning tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain brings his groundbreaking new project Celtic Connections: The Pulse of the World to Costa Mesa as part of its first North American tour.

A huge hit at the London 2012 Olympic Festival, The Pulse of the World features the beautiful and flowing melodies of Celtic instruments combined with tabla, bamboo flute, and Carnatic (south Indian) violin, providing a rich, cross-cultural musical experience that explores a coming together of sounds and rhythms rarely heard together.