The fourth day of the festival, which had a placid beginning was a representation of a theme that I would see throughout the day: Rakthitvam. Ashwath Narayanan, a disciple of the late great Sri KV Narayanaswamy gave a vocal concert with Sri Nagai Sriram on violin and Sri B. Sivaraman on mridangam. Sri KV Narayanaswamy, [...]

Before heading to Kalakshetra in the evening, I took a moment naturally to check out the lineup for last day of the ‘Voices of Tomorrow’ festival and I saw the name Aishwarya Shankar at the top. I’d never heard her, until yesterday. What struck me immediately about her singing was the weight with which she [...]

Five hours is a long time to sit in one place, regardless of where that place is. The question is can you manage those five hours without realizing the passing of time? I successfully managed that yesterday with a surprising amount of ease. Aarthi Archana, students of Smt R. Vedavalli were the opening act of [...]

There was the generation of Smt. M.S. Subbalakshmi, Sri G.N. Balasubramaniam, Sri Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer and many more. Then there was the TNS, TVS, Bombay Sisters era. With each generation in Carnatic Music, comes a new breed of artists that pave way for inspiration for the coming generations of Musicians. In an effort to bring [...]