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Dr. Jyotsna Srikanth at Rajarajeswarinagar Sangeethotsava

April 9, 2012, 11:31 am
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On the evening of April 9, 2012, the young team led by Dr. Jyotsna Srikanth on the violin performs at the Ramanavami Sangeethotsava. Accompanying her are Shadrah Solomon and Roshan on the Keyboard, Prasanna Kumar on Morsing, Kanjira and rhythm pad, Manjunath on the drums and Karthik Mani on the global percussion.


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Community bonds off Mysore Road

April 10, 2012, 7:38 am
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Covering music festivals held across Bangalore city calls for a cool temperament.
The vagaries of the city's traffic and the far-flung colonies stretch your energy.

We were headed to Raja Rajeswari Nagar, a  sprawling green colony located off the Mysore Road.
From Jayanagar to this place is a good 45 minutes by a smart auto in the peak hour time.'
That was nicely done. But locating the venue of the annual Sri Ramanavami Music Fest here took some turns.

In the open air stage and ground here of the BEML Colony, is a huge pandal and a garish stage.
Its is 8 pm and violinist Jyotsna Srikanth stands and plays the violin to lead an ensemble of some form of fusion music for this occasion.

The pandal is fairly full. Clearly, the residents here have a nice wash after work, enjoy the tiffin and stroll down for the concerts. They seem to like their music and they support the hosts well.

After all, staging a nine day music fest for Sri Ramanavami costs close to a few lakhs of rupees and the attendance is what makes sponsors loosen their purse strings.

Outside the pandal, we meet up with a few members of the Raja Rajeswari Nagar Cultural Association - H R Radhakrishna, president,  AR Shiva Swamy, secretary, Brinda Madhusudan, adviser and dancer Padmini Sreedhar.

This fest is their big one; they host concerts in the colony every month and have mini fests at times like Navaratri.

They work alongside the Sree Ramaseva Mandali opf Chamarajpet ( " to adjust the dates of travelling artistes so they perform one evening at the Fort School and come to the colony the next evening") and they seriously look to host big names if they can afford them.

The Fest closes on Tuesday, April 10 with a dance feature based on 'Ramayana'.
And Padmini tells us dance gets a bigger audience. "They like the drama, story and spectacle,"she says.

Contacts - Radhakrishna - 28600215; Shiva Swami - 9901773400.

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M S Sheela Concert in Jaya Nagar

April 12, 2012, 3:39 am
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Reported by Anjali Sriram

Ganakalaashree Vid.M.S.Sheela performed on 5th April 2012 at Jayarama Seva Mandali in Jayanagar Bangalore,on the occasion of the annual Ramanavami celebrations.

The Kacheri began at 6.45 pm with the brisk Navaraagamalika varna. The program continued with 'Raghunayaka' in raga Hamsadhwani with a wonderful swaraprasthaara followed by the krithi 'Lavanya Raama' in the raaga poornashadja composed by Thyagaraja.

Moving on, she next rendered the beautiful krithi 'Raama ika nannu brova raada' in the raaga Shahana with a brief alaapana and swaraprasthaara and then sang the popular krithi 'Marugelara' in the raaga jayantashree.

Next in line was 'Jnaanamosagarada' in Poorvikalyani with nerval and swarakalpana followed by 'Oorajupu' in the raga KannadagouLa creating a wonderful ambiance.

She next rendered the main item for the day 'Kaddanuvaariki' in the raaga ThoDi with a detailed alaapana nerval and swarakalpana followed by a high spirited Thani avartha.

The concert concluded with 4 devaranamas 'Rama govinda' in raaga Maand,'Thirupathi venkata ramana' in raaga Chandrakauns,'Jagadodhaarana' and 'Tha Tha thadimi' and the Mangala.

Vid.M.S.Sheela was accompanied by Vid.Nalina Mohan on the violin,Vid.Tumkur.B.Ravishankar on mridanga and Vid.Sukanya Ramgopal on ghata.
 

 
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Concerts at Sri Jayarama Seva Mandali

April 12, 2012, 3:48 am
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Venu, veena, violin concert / Sree Ramaseva Mandali

April 12, 2012, 4:32 am
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Welcome to Sri Ramanavami Music Fest 2013

April 5, 2013, 9:46 pm
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Greetings from the KutcheriBuzz Team!
We are back for the 2013 edition of the Sri Ramanavami Music Fest in and around Bangalore, Karnataka, south India.

Last year, we  started this blog to cover as much as we could of this growing festival. And we were surprised at the spread the fest offered, the traffic the news generated here and the interaction with artistes, rasikas and this community.

We hope to do the same this year.

The schedules of the leading sabhas have come in and we will post some highlights here. With large neighborhoods developed on Bangalore's fringe, these places also have their own local music/dance events.

Much is related and grows on the local temples too.

We welcome you to share photos and notes on the festival. Mail to - kutcheribuzz@gmail.com
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Music Fest begins with young talents at Sri Vani Kala Kendra

April 5, 2013, 10:42 pm
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Much ahead of Sri Ramanavami, which falls on April 19 this year, an education centre in Basaveshwara Nagar, commenced its music festival today.
Sri Vani Kala Kendra functions under Sri Vani Education Centre that runs academic institutions in three different campuses in Rajaji Nagar and Basaveshvara Nagar. The Sangeetotsava is held in the school campus at Basaveshwara Nagar.

After the inauguration of the fest by Dr. Mahesh Joshi, Director, Doordarshan Kendra, Bangalore. K.R. Ramakrishna, Commissioner, Kannada & Culture, Govt. of Karnataka and Dr. B.N.V. Subrahmanya, founder, Jyoti Institutions, the young artistes took the stage.


Master Nishanth, who looked tiny on the dais is a bundle of huge talent. Accompanied by his violinist brother Master Satwik Tejaswi and young percussionists Raghu Bhagawat and Raghunandan B.S, the one hour concert by Nishanth was set in traditional pattern with a couple of kritis, a main item along with a tani avartanam and ended with a tukkada and slokam.
Aditi B.P is another very young talented singer. Her voice has a sharp tonal quality. She rolls out brighas and sangatis like a seasoned artiste. Set in a traditional concert pattern, she concluded with the popular kriti by Purandaradasa, 'Bhagyada Lakshmi baramma' adding rgamalika touch towards the end, which received huge applause.

Tanushree N performs Bharatanatyam with a vigour. Having had her Arangetram at the age of 9 and performed in many stages, dance comes to her naturally. People who sat back beyond 9 p.m. would be thankful to Mattur Lakshmi Keshava, who kept insisting that the audience stay back and watch her dance. Keshava is the man behind spotting these talents.

He says, "I go to almost all the concerts by young people wherever they perform in Bangalore. Sometimes friends refer young artistes to us. But we watch them perform before bringing them here."

"Until last year, the young artistes were featured before the main concerts during the weekends. From this year, we have decided to earmark a week for them for there are many budding talents and weekends are not just enough," says Sharadaprasad, secretary of the Sri Vani Education Centre. "Also, the summer vacation that has already begun in our schools makes it easy for the children to get ready to perform," he adds.

The young talents will be on stage till April 10. The main fest begins on Ugadi day, that is, April 11.


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State elections and music concerts

April 11, 2013, 1:23 am
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The organisers of the music festivals that run into May this year are working on rescheduling of a couple of music concerts.

The reason is the Karnataka state Assembly elections to be held on May 4 and 5 this year.
Since some of the venues are school and college compuses that are polling centres, the change in the concerts schedule has become inevitable for these hosts.

Senior advocate V. Tarakaram, secretary, Sree Seshadripuram Ramaseva Samithi says, "We begin co-ordinating with the artistes and accompanists from December and we were done much before March. But, both the artistes, senior vocalist O.S. Thiagarajan and the Harikatha exponent Seetharama Munikoti understood the situation and agreed to perform on May 9 and 10 respectively."

They chose to perform the traditional Sri Rama Pattabhisheka that is usually celebrated on the last day of the festival, on May 1, since it is a public holiday.

So, make sure you check the daily newspapers for change in schedules on May 4 and 5.

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Sree Ramaseva Mandali celebrates its platinum jubilee

April 11, 2013, 1:45 am
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Today is a big day at Sree Ramaseva Mandali. Not just the inauguration of the music festival of the year but a celebration of a landmark year too.

It has been a long journey since 1939, for this Mandali that hosts its festival at the special pandal put up at the Govt. Juinor college, Fort High School grounds in Chamarajapet.

Founded by Late S.V. Narayanaswamy Rao, the mandali takes pride that this is perhaps the only organisation to have been inaugurated by three Indian presidents and a Governor General of India, C. Rajagopalachari, well known as Rajaji.

The mandali also remembers Rajaji who earlier advised to have the Sri Ramanavami festival in the open.

Sri Ramaseva Mandali hosts the longest festival beginning on the Ugadi day every year that runs for more than a month. This year the concerts go on till May 16.

Religious discourses draw a big audience in the mornings every day at this pandal. The main evening concerts are ticketed. The season tickets get sold out a month in advance. A few daily tickets are available at the counters though.

The festival begins with a Nadaswaram recital by Kasim and Babu at 4 p.m. today, followed by a mandolin duet concert by U. Srinivas and U. Rajesh at 6.45 p.m.

The chief guests of the occasion are the governors of two states. Hon. Governor of Karnataka H.R. Bharadwaj and Hon. Governor of Andhra Pradesh E.S.L. Narasimhan.

Ramapriya - an Internet Radio is also launched today.

Concerts schedules are at www.concertatmandali.com


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Fest Invite; cover and invitation from Sree Ramaseva Mandali

April 11, 2013, 4:15 am
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KutcheriBuzz Guide to the Sri Ramanavami season

April 13, 2013, 3:14 am
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A Guide to the Sri Ramanavami Music Fest is to be released by KutcheriBuzz.
This book will feature the concerts at all the prime venues in Bangalore where the concerts are held.

The Guide can help a rasika plan his schedule and choose the eoncerts in advance.
The book will be circulated at the venues from April 19 onwards. It is free.

KutcheriBuzz, is based in Chennai and covers the Sri Ramanavami Fest closely on the blog and its web site. The Guide is an additional utility for the Bangalore rasika.

If you wish to get a copy by post then please send a self-addressed long envelope with postage of Rs.4 and mail the pack to KutcheriBuzz at - 77, C P Ramaswamy Road, Alwarpet, Chennai 600 018. Limited copies will be available this way.

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Malleswaram hosts more music fests

April 14, 2013, 4:21 am
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In the music festivals hosted in various parts of Bangalore during Sri Ramanavami, Malleswaram neighbourhood has a major share.

Sri Rama Bhaktha Sabha has been been celebrating Sri Ramanavami since 1906 and is into 107th year this season. The festival is held at Sri Kanteshwara Bhavana, No.74, 5th Cross, Malleswaram.
The fest is on from April 11 and will be held till April 21. There are classical dance, yakshagana and pravachana apart from Carnatic music concerts.
The link to the festival schedule - http://sriramabhakthasabha.wordpress.com/ramotsava/

There is a music festival at Sri Rama Mandira located on the East Park Road, 9th Cross, Malleswaram.
The festival is on from April 11 and will go on till end of this month.

Not very far away from Malleswaram is Sriramapuram,
Sri Ramaseva Bhaktha mandali is celebrating its 84th year of Sri Ramotsava this year from April 11 onwards. The music festival has senior artistes like the Rudrapatnam Brothers, Dr. Srikantham Nagendra Sastry, Seetha Sathyanarayana and Harikathe by Sitaram Munikoti. The concerts are held at Sri Rama Kalyana Mandira, 3rd Cross, Sriramapuram.
Weblink to the schedule of concerts - http://sriramaseva.org/images/programs/2013programlistenglish.html

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Big concerts lined up at Sri Rama Mandiram, Malleswaram

April 14, 2013, 10:45 pm
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The 9th Cross, Malleswaram is almost invisible. Tucked in between the 8th and 10th cross as a small lane of market place, the pathway leads to Sri Rama Mandiram.

Established in 1922, this 92 year old temple with a huge hall hosts Vasantha Navarathri music festival every year beginning on the Ugadi day.
Renowned artistes like S. Sowmya, Mysore Nagamani Srinath, H.N. Meera, Srikantham Nagesdra Sastry, veena vidushi Suma Sudhindra, flutist B.K. Anantaram and Shyalama G Bhave, a well known Hindustani and Carnatic musician figure among the big names in this year's festival.

Singers Amrutha Venkatesh, Srimatha Ramanand, Vivek Sadasivam and Hemmige Prashanth are among the young talents featured at the fest. Concerts are held from 6.30 onwards in the evening.


Retired aeronautical engineer from HAL, Mr. Sathyanarayana has been the long time secretary in the organisation. He gathered the community in the neighbourhood and got back the administration from the Government who took over control of this old temple 10 years ago. "But, that was a brief period of 3 years and we got it back, so that our regular music festival could go on. This used to a prestigious venue in the past and M.S. Subbulakshmi  had performed here," says Sathyanarayana with pride.

On Sunday evening, young Vivek Sadasivam performed to a near full hall.
A glance at the schedule ahead -


April 16 - Amrutha Venkatesh - Vocal
April 17 - Srimatha Ramanand - Vocal
April 18 - Shyamala G. Bhave - Vocal
April 20 - Hemmige R. Prashanth - Vocal
April 21 - Mysore nagamani Srinath - Vocal
April 22 - B.K. Anantaram and Amrit Nadig - Flute duet
April 23 - S. Sowmya - Vocal
April 26 -Suma Sudhindra - Veena
May 3 - H.N. Meera - Vocal
May 4 - Srikantham nagesdra Sastry - Vocal

Sri Rama Mandiram is on the East Park Road, 9th Cross Malleswaram.
Contact Sathyanarayana, secretary at 97409 28627

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Music fest in the quiet Vyalikaval neighbourhood

April 15, 2013, 3:54 am
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The Sunday shopping frenzy was on along the Sampige Road in Malleswaram. Not far away from the 11th cross is the Vyalikaval extension, a quiet residential locality.

The neighbourhood embraces the music festival hosted during the Ramanavami gently. The trees along the 13th cross road leading to the small but beautiful Rama temple is colourfully lit up for the occasion. The temple and the adjacent hall also reflect the mood with bright decorations.


This Sunday evening, when we walked towards the temple hall, Modumudi Sudhakar from Vijayawada was elaborating Mohana raga. Joined him at the concert were the seniors. Violinist M.S. Govindaswamy, Bangalore's own C. Cheluvaraju on the mridanga and the well known Sukanya Ramgopal on the ghata. It was a sparkling tani avarthana by the percussionists that the hall stayed houseful till the end.


This festival hosted by Vyalikaval Extension Association has only Carnatic music to offer to the rasikas, says B.R. Purushotham, secretary of the association, who mailed the schedule of concerts to us end of March itself.

The upcoming concerts are Prof. Rudrapatnam Ramakantha (April 15), M.S. Vidya (April 16), Abhishek Raghuram (April 17), Prince Rama Varma (April 18), Gayathri Venkataraghavan (April 20)

The fest is on till April 23.

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Chitravina Ravikiran's concert at Sri Rama Seva Mandali, Chamarajpet

April 15, 2013, 11:25 pm
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It is rare to see a ticket counter busy for an instrumental music concert. But rasikas come by a little early to buy tickets for N. Ravikiran's chitravina concert on Monday.

On the dais is a group of seasoned artistes accompanying Ravikiran. Charumathi Raghuram on the violin, K.V. Prasad on the mridanga and Karthick on the ghata.


The Chennai based Chitravina artiste Ravikiran greets the rasikas and offers to play their requests at the beginning of the concert. He says this in Kannada and receives a huge round of applause. And a number of requests written in bits of paper pour in.

Beginning with 'Tulasi dalamulache' in Mayamalavagowla, he moves on to render another Thyagaraja's composition 'Manusolini marmamulu' in Shuddha Hindolam. Chennai or Bangalore, Ravikiran interacts well with the audience and shares valuable information of the ragas and songs with them. He refers to another kriti 'Samaja vara gamana' that is also sung rarely in Shuddha Hindolam instead of the popular Hindola raga version, especially by the Walajahpet school.

Ravikiran never fails to include a composition by Uthukkadu Venkatakavi whenever he could. And here he chooses 'Sharanam yami Santhana Ramaswamy' in Sahana. He sings the verses and gives information of the compositions on Rama by this composer known more for his compositions on Krishna.

He then plays 'Mara vairi ramani', a Nasikabhooshani raga kriti, one of the rasikas' requests.

"What are the ragas covered as main ragas so far here?" he asks the audience. "Kalyani, Mohanam are 'covered' already, so please 'cover' Kambhodhi today," says a rasika. Ravikiran asks, "Should I 'cover' or 'uncover' the raga today?" he asks with a smile and begins Kambhodhi.

A classical music concert on a Monday evening having 300 people seated in tells you that it is Bangalore's music season and rasikas want to be at the concerts.
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C.K.Pavandeep's good concert at Malleswaram

April 17, 2013, 2:48 am
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I had been to a concert on the April 12 by C.K.Pavandeep, disciple of Vid TVG  along with M S Govindaswamy on violin and Cheluvaraj on mirdangam at Sri Kanteshwara Bhavana, No.74, 5th Cross, Malleswaram

He gave an amazing performance for a full hall.


He started off with a brisk madhyama kala Shri raga Varnam follwed by Tulasidala along with shower of neraval and swarams, Nalinakanthi expantion with swarams for Manvyala was a special thing which drew a lot of attention followed by a dasar pada elle vaituntha with speed swara patterns. Mohanam Nannupalimpa was the main for the day.

A very good concert which adhered to tradition.

- Report and pic ; M Narasimha.
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Seshadripuram fest opens on April 19 evening

April 17, 2013, 3:17 am
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Vidushi Neela Ramgopal and All India Radio executive, Dr N Raghu will be the chief guests at the opening of the 65th Sri Ramanavami Music Fest of Sree Seshadripuram Ramaseva Samithi (R) in Bangalore on April 19 evening.

The venue is the open air space at Seshadripuram College on Nagappa Street in Seshadripuram.
The formal event will be followed by a nadaswaram by Nachiyar Koil N R P Ravichandran and party.

Concerts run till May 10 and are open to all but donations are also invited by the hosts.

Call 2226 3530.
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A dash of politics . . .

April 19, 2013, 11:21 pm
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There is music alright. But there is also a lot of politics in Bangalore now.
Karnataka state goes to the polls to elect people to the Assembly in early May and the campaigns have begun.

You don't see much of the visual barrage of posters and banners just now but the temp will slowly increase.

Politicians being politicians, the Sri Ramanavami celebrations on Friday provided just the stage to say hello to local people at temples and indulge in soft canvassing.

The candidates got up early and met people at the local temples. Be it in Malleswaram or in Basavangudi.

Later, in the evening music took over at and near these temples.


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IPL, elections, fesivals

April 20, 2013, 12:30 am
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If you are the sort of rasika who hops from one venue to another, then negotiating Bangalore's traffic streams is a huge effort.

We, as reporters of the Sri Ramanavami Music Fest bear it with patience!

This season, in addition to the normal peak hour traffic jams, you have the jams caused by fans heading to the IPL cricket matches ( Royal Challengers Bangalore has a huge fan base here and are playing against Rajasthan Royals tonight), diversions due to the Metro rail work and minor election bandwagons on the move.

The Malleswaram bomb blast has called for stronger security measures on the road - though there arent too many checks.

However, the nice thing about concert going is that most neighbourhoods now have their own sabhas/mandalis which host concerts and some feature the very best and the talents of Bangalore.

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Seshadripuram Music Festival begins

April 20, 2013, 12:30 am
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Bathed in colourful bright lights, the Seshadripuram College premises is ready for a three week music festival beginning on April 19.

Sree Seshadripuram Ramaseva Samithi celebrates its 65th year of Sri Ramanavami music festival this year.

Senior Carnatic vocalist Neela Ramgopal and N. Raghu, exective producer, All India radio Bangalore are chief guests on the inaugural day. Hailing from Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu Neela has made Bangalore her home for many years now and has a host of sishyas here. Young Nithya, one of her sishyas sang the invocation.

The function was kept simple and cozy. Women of the neighbourhood taking care of the back stage, led by Revathi Tarakaram, treasurer of the Samithi, the event was presented by Chandrika Puranik, principal of the evening college at Seshadripuram College.

V. Tarakaram, a senior advocate and secretary of the Samithi thanks the local police for their support to this festival in the days of election mood in the city.

Nadaswaram recital by Nachiarkoil N.R.P. Ravichandran followed and the songs in praise of Rama began. It was a surprise to listen to 'O Rama nee naamam, entha richira' in Purvi kalyani, a long forgotten composition of Bhadrachala Ramadas immortalised by Madurai Somu.

The rasikas were also offered prasadams - a packet of Kharaboondi and a laddu!

Concerts are on till May 9 at 6.30 p.m. with special one hour sessions of talent promotion for young artistes from 5.15 to 6.15 p.m. every day.
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