Fruitful Evening...May 24th,2008

I had to render the invocation song at two different functions today. The first was for Tamilnadu Brahmins Association(TAMBRAS), where I first rendered devotional songs on Lord Venkateswara for about 45 minutes. Following this was a very interesting Multimedia Presentation by Dr.Pappu Venugopala Rao, on the daily Puja activities at Tirumala Temple, Tirupati. He began with a brief history about the temple and the detailed presentation simply transported us to the divine temple.

With a heavy heart I left this place before the presentation was over and I got to the next venue, which offered something equally interesting.There was a talk scheduled by Swami Dayananda Saraswathi. This seemed to be a project called "Single Teacher School". This movement has already been started, wherein, corporates "adopt" one village each, and identifies one student who already has considerable level of education. This student is trained and he, in turn, becomes the teacher and about 30 people in each village are educated about hygiene, health care, Indian culture and basic education. This project, I believe, is co-ordinated by Swami Vivekananda Rural Development Society. The theme looked very appealing and interesting to me. I wish more and more corporate bodies come forward and lend their support towards this good cause.






Having rendered the prayer song at both these venues, I got home with the satisfaction of having spent the evening in a very fruitful way and for having observed a lot of achievers lending their support towards such good causes, towards the betterment of our society.

Four-Hour Concert-March 2008

Sanjeev- Poongulam Subramanian S.Karthick









I gave a four hour concert under the auspices of Sarvani Sangeetha Sabha, Chennai, on March 23rd, 2008.

The concert actually started at 4 p.m and ended at 8.30 p.m. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience for me that day !

Concerts in cities like Mumbai usually are for a duration of 3.5 to 4 hours, while such concerts are a little rare in Chennai.

You can go the following link to see a review of the above concert:http://www.rasikas.org/viewtopic.php?id=5156

Special Concert In Dec 2007

I sang at Meenakshi College, Kodambakkam under the auspices of Meenakshi Sunderarajan Trust during the December Music Festival,2007. I was very fortunate to have Vidwan.Haridwaramangalam.Sri.A.K.Palanivel accompany me on the Tavil.

I thought I would share a photograph of this concert with my blogger friends !

CONCERT TRIP TO SINGAPORE:

We were given a warm welcome at SIFAS. The committee has a large number of members who work in a very co-ordinated manner. Since mine was the inaugural concert, I could see that they were working very meticulously on all the details. There are a large number of musically interested families in Singapore and they really enjoyed the concert.

My feeling at the end of the concert was that it would have been nice to have had a longer time slot for the concert. The organizers requested me to include a Ragam-Tanam-Pallavi and hence I felt two hours was a bit too less.

You can also go the following link to see a review of the above concert:http://www.rasikas.org/viewtopic.php?id=5031

This trip to Singapore was with my family. We did a bit of sightseeing and my kids really enjoyed every bit of it.

Here a few photos:


(This was taken at the Jurong Bird Park.)









(This was taken at Sentosa. Girish, myself, my daughter Vishruthi and son Vishvesh are seen here.)

View my concert schedule here

Concert at Singapore

I will be singing at SIFAS,Singapore on 7th March,2008.
The concert will take place at SIFAS Auditorium at 6.45 p.m.

You can view the invitation here:http://sifas.org/calendar_calview.php

I will post more on this concert once I get back to Chennai.

Concert at Mylapore Fine Arts-26-Jan-2008

I sang for Mylapore Fine Arts Club on the occasion of Tyagaraja Aradhana celebrations.

You can go the following link to see a review of the above concert in the Hindu paper:http://www.hindu.com/fr/2008/02/01/stories/2008020151290400.htm

You can also go the following link to see another review of the above concert:http://www.rasikas.org/viewtopic.php?id=4741

Gayathri at New Delhi: 15-AUG-2007

Accompanied by K.L.N.Sastry-Kumbakonam Padmanabhan-Ramamurthy