Category: Music

Zakir Hussain will continue to be the sound of India for a long time to come. | Photo Credit: Illustration: R. Rajesh Have you seen fireflies in the wild? On those nights when the beat of a thousand lives pulsating forms its own soundscape, and the glow of these wondrous creatures creates a visual miracle...

Ashwath Narayanan with violinist M.S. Ananthakrishnan, mridangist Tiruvavrur Bhaktavatsalam and B.S. Purushottam  on the kanjira.  | Photo Credit: K_Pichumani Ashwath Narayanan is a musician with impeccable tutelage, good voice range and dynamics and respect for tradition. His concert for The Music Academy shone on all these fronts. Good programming added to the satisfactory outcome, even...

S. Srivathsan with Vaibhav Ramani (violin), L. Sudarsan Srinivas (mridangam) and K.R. Sivaramakrishna (kanjira). | Photo Credit: Courtesy: Mudhra With a mallari taking cue from ragam-tanam, S. Srivathsan’s 35-minute suite after a neat centrepiece emerged as the highlight of his performance. Beyond the novelty of intoning the patterned item of the nagaswaram repertoire, the youngster’s...

The Music Academy, Sastha Catering Services Lunch meals being served at the Music Academy sabha canteen by Sastha Catering Services | Photo Credit: S Shiva Raj For RK Venkatesan of Sastha Catering Services, planning the lunch menu for the Margazhi sabha canteen begins two months ahead. Keeping seasonal vegetables in mind, he plans a 25-day...

Rasikas having dinner after a kutcheri at ‘OhMaRgazhi Festival’, at APL Global School, Thoraipakkam | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Hymavathi Raghuraman’s first day of the Tamil month of Margazhi (December 16) was quite eventful. At 4pm she boarded a special bus from outside her residence in Sholinganallur’s Ramaniyam Pushkar. Accompanying her were 20 other residents...

Badshah; story posted by the rapper on Instagram | Photo Credit: @badboyshah/Instagram Rapper Badshah, who enthralled his fans with his surprise performance with ‘Tauba Tauba’ hitmaker Karan Aujla at a concert in Gurugram, later found himself in the midst of controversy as several reports surfaced online claiming he was fined for allegedly violating traffic rules,...

Anil Srinivasan | Photo Credit: special arrangement “If you close your eyes and listen to music, music consumes you, it takes you into a state of meditation. In a dark room with strangers, music becomes your safe space,” says pianist Anil Srinivasan, discussing the seventh edition of Concert in the Dark. The concept is meant...

Bryan Adams at his So Happy It Hurts Bengaluru gig | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement “18 till I die, gonna be 18 till I die….” We were in queue to collect our wristbands at the Bryan Adams So Happy It Hurts Tour in Bengaluru and like us, others thronging the lines were singing along. Despite...

“We spoke about Zakir bhai just last week and now he is no more. It is hard to believe,” says Giridhar Udupa. The son of legendary mridangam artiste Ullur Nagendra Udupa, Giridhar is also known as Ghatam Giridhar or Ghatam Udupa. While we were discussing his performance at the recently-concluded Echoes of Earth festival, he...

The actor and singer widened his fan base in Kashmir with with his down-to-earth attitude towards the local fans. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A series of social media videos by actor-singer Diljit Dosanjh filmed at key locations, capturing the mood of the place and the innocence of locals, won the hearts of netizens in...