Category: Concert/Album Experience

  • OS Thyagarajan @ Bangalore Gayana Samaja

    It was vintage OST at the Bangalore Gayana Samaja Auditorium yesterday. OST fans who came to the concert would have returned home real satisfied. Here are the details of the concert: Vocal: Sri O.S. Thyagarajan (OST) Violin: Sri H.K.Venkatram Mridangam: Sri V. Praveen Ghatam: Sri Giridhar Udupa List of songs:…

  • Nithyashri Mahadevan @ Odukkathur Mutt, Bangalore

    The number of people who had come to the Odukkathur Swamigal Mutt on Saturday to listen to the day’s concert far outnumbered the ones on any other day. The reason? It was Smt.Nithyashri Mahadevan‘s concert that day. Grand daughter of Smt. D.K.Pattammal (her paternal grandmother), veteran singer and one of…

  • Malladi Brothers @ Udakkathur Mutt, Bangalore

    It was yet another awesome concert that the audience at Odukkathur Swamigal Mutt in Bangalore got to witness yesterday. Malladi Brothers – Sri Sreerama Prasad and Sri Ravikumar gave a carnatic classical vocal concert accompanied by Sri Mysore Manjunath on the violin, Sri Srimushnam Raja Rao on the mridangam and…

  • Priya Sisters @ Odukkathur Mutt, Bangalore

    Priya Sisters – Smt. Haripriya and Smt. Shanmugapriya performed at the Odukkathur Mutt yesterday accompanied by Sri M.A. Krishnaswamy on the violin, Sri Neyveli Skanda Subramaniam on the mridangam and Smt. Sukanya Ramagopal on the ghatam. The main piece was Sri Muthuswami Dikshitar’s “srI krishnam bhaja mAnasa” in the rAga…

  • Violin Duet @ Odukkathur Mutt, Bangalore

    Lalgudi Sri G.J.R. Krishnan and Lalgudi Smt. Vijayalakshmi performed yesterday in the Gokulashtami concert series at Odukkathur Swamigal Mutt, Bangalore. They were accompanied by Sri Mannargudi Easwaran on the mridangam and Sri B.S. Purushottam on the Khanjira. The list of songs they played is as follows: 1) varnam – husEni…

  • T.M.Krishna rules

    Sri T.M.Krishna (TMK), one of my favorite singers, gave a brilliant concert yesterday at the Odukkathur Swamigal Mutt, Bangalore. He was accompanied by Sri H.K.Venkatram on the violin, Sri K. Arun Prakash on the mridangam and Sri M.A. Krishnamurthy on the ghatam. I must say it was one of the…

  • Mandolin Srinivas @ Odukkathur Mutt, Bangalore

    Mandolin U. Srinivas performed to a packed and overflowing auditorium at the Odukathur Mutt in Bangalore yesterday. He was ably accompanied by Sri S.D. Sridharan on the violin, Trichy Sri B. Harikumar on the mridangam and Sri S.V. Ramani on the ghatam. In the 3 hour concert, Sri U.Srinivas once…

  • R.K.Srikantan’s “Rare Ragas & Compositions” Concert – Part1

    He is 86 years of age and you wonder whether he will be able to perform when you look at his frail frame seated on a chair-like structure. When he starts singing, you wonder if the strong voice is actually coming from this old man. He is none other than…

  • Ramayanam by Sikkil Gurucharan

    I bought Sikkil Gurucharan‘s music album “Ramayanam” , a set of 3 CDs released by Rajalakshmi Audio, Coimbatore last week. It is a beautiful compilation of carnatic songs depicting the story of Lord Rama. There are in all 16 songs and a mangalam with most of the songs having an…

  • Sikkil Gurucharan @ Bangalore Gayana Samaja

    Sikkil Gurucharan (SGC) performed at the Bangalore Gayana Samaja auditorium today. The highlights of the beautiful concert were the kannadagowla raga alapana and alapana & kalapana swaram for the main kriti in todi raga. On a day when there were 4 good concerts, all clashing with each other, especially the…

  • Concert @ Infy, Bangalore

    Played mridangam accompaniment in a 2 hr carnatic classical concert yesterday at Infosys campus, Bangalore. Details are as follows: Flute: S. Datta Violin: B. Lakshmi Mridangam: R. Ramkumar (thats me) List of songs: 1) Era nApai (varnam) – tOdi – Adi – pattanam subramaniya iyer 2) bAgAyanaiyya – chandrajyOti –…

  • R. Vedavalli @ BTM Cultural Academy, Bangalore

    “Sangeetha Kalanidhi” Smt R. Vedavalli sang to a packed house on Saturday at Sri Ramana Maharishi Academy for the Blind, 3rd Cross, 3rd Phase, J.P.Nagar, Bangalore. The concert was organized by BTM Cultural Academy. Strict adherence to tradition, step-by-step build up of raga alapanas with all important patterns covered were…

  • Sikkil Gurucharan @ Music Academy

    Sikkil Gurucharan performed at the Music Academy Mini Hall in Chennai on Sunday in a 4 hour long Carnatic Classical Vocal Concert organized by Sarvani Sangeetha Sabha. He was accompanied by S. Varadarajan on the violin, K.V. Prasad on the mridangam and Vaikkom Gopalakrishnan on the ghatam. The (partial) list…

  • A memorable concert

    Sanjay Subramanyam sang at Mangala Mantapa, NMKRV Women’s College, Jayanagar, Bangalore on Saturday, 10th June 2006. He was accompanied by Nagai Muralidharan on the violin, Guruvayur Dorai on the mridangam and Rajasekharan on the Morsing. Sanjay always delivers but what was special about this concert was the top class artists…

  • M.S. Sheela @ HN Kalakshetra, Bangalore

    M.S.Sheela gave a carnatic vocal concert at Dr. HN Kalakshetra, National College, 7th Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore yesterday. In contrast to her previous concert on Sunday at the Bangalore Gayana Samaja, the auditorium here was sparsely populated, may be because it was a working day and/or because not many people might…