For Stetson Adjunct Music Professor Nandkishor Muley, music is the common language that brings together people of different cultures.

Muley and students in his Introduction to Indian Music class at Stetson will perform this Saturday night, March 30, in Lee Chapel inside Elizabeth Hall. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. with a lecture by Muley about Indian classical and traditional music, and Indian culture.

An award-winning musician, “Nandu” Muley also will give a demonstration of Indian instruments, such as the 100-string santoor, the sitar and tabla drums. And he will show how to perform the raga, the musical scale, which entertains the “human spirit and minds of the listener,” according to his website, SantoorMagic.com.

Refreshments will be served at 7:15 p.m., and an Indian Music Concert will follow at 7:30 p.m. Five of his Stetson students and some of his other students around Central Florida will perform during the concert, as well. The event is open to the public and admission is complimentary. Cultural Credit is available for students.

“It will be a total Indian music presentation,” Muley said by phone from his Sanford home. “The people who come can get a little bit of an idea of how Indian music sounds and the different instruments that there are in India. We call it an educational performance to make the students of Stetson aware of a different culture.”

Muley comes from a family of traditional musicians in Western India and has extensively studied Indian music, voice and dance. He travels the world, teaching Indian musical arts, spreading Indian culture and performing at Indian and world music festivals.

An adjunct professor in the School of Music since 1997, Muley said Stetson was the first college in Florida to offer an Indian music class for credit. He noted that many students who take his class are not familiar with Indian culture and are excited to learn its music.

“It is always good to know about a different part of the world and how the music everywhere is differently presented,” he said. “This is what my main goal is. Music is the best media to bring the people together from different cultures.”