Swathi Sangeethotsavam January 6th to 12th ,2012

 Daily 6pm to 9pm at Kuthiramalika Palace , East Fort , Trivandrum

 6-1-2012                     Sri Sanjay Subrahmanyan           -          Vocal

 Friday                        Sri S.Varadarajan                            -          Violin

                                    Palghat Sri Maheshkumar                 -          Mridangam

                                    Dr. S.Karthick                                 -          Ghatam

  7-1-2012                     Prince Rama Varma                   -          Vocal

  Saturday                     Sri S.Varadarajan                         -          Violin

                                      Sri B.Harikumar                            -           Mridangam  

                                      Dr. S.Karthick                              -          Ghatam

   8-1-2012                      Bangalore Sri S.Shankar            -          Vocal

   Sunday                        Parur Sri M.A Sundareswaran      -          Violin

                                       Nanjil Sri Arul                               -          Mridangam

                                       Perukavu Sri P.L.Sudheer              -          Ghatam

               

   9-1-2012                     Prof. Venkataramanan                 -           Vocal   

   Monday                      Sri S.R.Mahadev Sharma              -           Violin

                                      Sri Anil Kumar Wadagara             -           Mridangam

                                      Manjoor Sri Unnikrishnan             -           Ghatam                     

  10-1-2012                  Master G.Abhilash                        -            Vocal

  Tuesday                    Avaneeswaram Sri S.R.Vinu          -            Violin

                                    Dr.G.Babu                                       -            Mridangam

                                    Udipi Sri Srikanth                           -            Kanjira

                                    Udipi Sri Sridhar                             -            Ghatam

  11-1-2012                 Hindusthani Bhajans of Maharaja Swathi Thirunal 

  Wednesday               by Smt Abhradita Bannerjee

     

 12-1-2012                  Akkarai Sisters

 Thursday                  Subhalaksmi and Sornalatha        -            Vocal      

                                   Avaneeswaram Sri S.R.Vinu          -            Violin

                                   Neyveli Sri Narayanan                    -            Mridangam

                                   Sri Guruprasad                                 -            Ghatam

 Music lovers please feel welcome to attend the festival as well as to spread the word among your music loving friends. Kindly keep your mobile phones in the silent mode.

 For enquiries and feedback, please write to kuthiramalika@gmail.com

Please visit http://ramavarma.yolasite.com/swathi-sangeethotsav-faqs.php to view frequently asked questions regarding the festival.

Grammy Nominated Chandrika Krishnamurthy in Boulder

Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon, nominated for a Grammy award this year, is coming to Boulder on 11/3 for a benefit concert.

All of the information can be found here.

                         

Below is a short description of the event.

Chandrika Tandon will perform an innovative repertoire of classical chants combining her intensive training in Hindustani and Carnatic Indian music with western rhythms and percussion in an easily accessible way. The concert will include selections from her Grammy-nominated album, Soul Call, which was an eight syllable healing chant for wellness, from her new album (Soul March), and other pieces.

Ms. Tandon will be accompanied by her Soul Chants ensemble which consists of 7- 8 musicians playing eastern and western instruments - including the flute; saxophone; sitar; tabla; mridangam; guitar; keyboard - and will include local musicians and singers in the concert as well.

Some of the members of her Soul Chants ensemble are listed below:

Abhik Mukherjee, sitar:
Premik Russell Tubbs, saxophone:
Steve Gorn, flute:
Anirban Roy Chowdhury, tabla:
Pedro Da Silva, guitar:
T. S. Nandakumar, mridangam:
Local musicians and singers joining Ms. Tandon on stage include the following:
Vamadeva:
Joni Allen
Jim Beckwith:
Tom Duffy
Kate Spear:
Beth Miller

Grandson of Padmashri Sheikh Chinna Moulana - Naadaswaram Vidwan

Grandson of Padmashri Dr Sheikh Chinna Moulana, Paul, who is also a Nadaswaram player is performing in Denver on Friday, 21st the same day as the Abhishek Raghuram Concert.


You can read about Paul, his works and the event details by clicking below

Bhairavi 10th Anniversary Celebrations

Hats off to Priya Hariharan's Bhairavi School of Music for putting up a wonderful show tonight at the Broomfield Auditorium.

It's so heartening to see the path taken by Priya and Krish over the past decade in not only training young kids to love and learn music, but being cultural ambassadors of this genre of music to the Denverites.

Kudos !

AMP'D - A Rock Concert for CRY America

CRY America is a charity organization involved in the betterment of underprivileged children.

Here is a concert coming up at the Broomfield Auditorium on Oct 30th @ 2:00 pm. Ticket prices are $9/head. Please attend and support this good cause and enjoy some fun music

Golden Hour Documentary

As part of CFAA's mission of promoting arts and culture in our state, we always hope that promoting the arts have a positive impact on the global society. 

Recently a specific case was brought to our attention, where a team of two faculty members and a student from our own CU Denver filmed a documentary titled The Golden Hour, in India this summer. The film is about curbing fatalities due to road accidents in India. India happens to be #1 right now on the global list for these kind of fatalities. 

The team is right now actively running a small fund-raising campaign that ends of 10/18 for their post production activities. While CFAA will not be able to do anything officially to support this cause, we wanted to bring this to the attention of arts lovers here in case anybody is interested. 

You can watch the trailer of this documentary below: 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/945189871/the-golden-hour-documentary

For more information you can contact the director/producer of the  documentary directly - Roma Sur @ 720 675 ROMA 

Svanubhava 2012

Svanubhava is an annual festival conducted by the students of performing arts primarily in Chennai. It is a cultural movement in celebration of Indian art like never before. 


This 3 year old festival is now branching out to other parts of India like New Delhi, Trivandrum, Mumbai, Kolkota, Trichy etc.. 


Starting this year, a live webcast of this event is available from
http://svanubhava.blogspot.com. 


The timings are as follows: 
   - October 10th-12th from 9am IST
   - October 13th-15th from 10am IST 


Replays will be available from 
   - October 11th-16th from 9pm IST 


Hope you all will be able to find time to enjoy this innovative program 

Live Concert by Prince Ramavarma Online

A live carnatic vocal concert by the renowned Carnatic Vocalist Prince Ramavarma will be available for the CFAA Patrons tomorrow. This is available courtesy of Mr Varma himself.

   - Date:    Tuesday, 08/16/2011
   - Time:    7:00 PM IST / 7:30 AM MT
   - Stream: http://www.chennaistream.com/sripeetam/
   - About the Artist: http://ramavarma.yolasite.com