Cosmosic!: September 2012

I was fortunate to have my first concert tour - if I can call it that way, during July 2012! Carnatic musicians come from India to tour US and perform at various venues in the US. On the contrary, I was able to go to India from US and perform at several venues in Bengaluru, Coimbatore and Thirupathi during July 2012. This was a great experience, traveling, singing at different venues, with different accompanying artists and one weekend I had three consecutive concerts on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Thank You Shri Krishna for giving me a chance to sing for you.

I was fortunate that several Senior Citizen villages in Coimbatore provided me an opportunity to sing to the residents. It is really sad that today we are letting them stay on their own and in these villages. It would be nice to have all thathas and pattis staying with us and guiding us. But unfortunately, we don't enjoy that privilege these days and we think staying away from them is cool. How sad!

I think, based on the feedback that I got from the thathas and pattis, they enjoyed the concerts very well and I request that they bless me.

Some Samples from the various concerts:

Suswaralaya College (Vidwan Shri H.S. Sudhindra's music college) at Sri Rama Lalitha Kala Academy in Banashankari, Bengaluru

I used to attend several concerts with my parents when I was in Bengaluru and always had dreamed of singing here one day and that day came on July 21, 2012. Shri Mandya Nagaraj was on violin, Shri Ashwin Nair on Mrdhangam and Shri Ragunandan on Ghadam. I was so sick on this day and I felt like the nostril tap had broken with continuous flow and had to do steam inhalation several times that day, even just before sitting on the stage and constantly popping in Amodhini. But with Shri Rama's blessing, this was a successful concert and my voice held up for 2-1/2 hours.