The artist fan!
Fans of the Carnatic music world can be demonstrative too.Violinists Mysore Nagaraj and Manjunath have a legion of fans. They pack into the venues where their concerts are on. And then there are the...
View ArticleThe Seshadripuram fest anecdotes; rewinding 30 years
Long-time residents of Seshadripuram and Malleswaram can tell you lots of tales of the atmosphere of Sri Ramanavami concerts of times gone by.One of them recalls the time when audio speakers would be...
View ArticleFinal concert at Jayanagar; scenes and sights
IIt was the last concert of the season for Sri Jayarama Seva Mandali in Jayanagar on Saturday evening. And the first floor hall was overflowing with rasikas.The Mysore Brothers, the violinists who had...
View ArticleSikkil Gurucharan at Seshadripuran
Sikkil Gurucharan's vocal concert at Seshadripuram drew a big audience; but the quadrangle was nit packed to capacity.With artistes K V Prasad on mridangam, Giridhar Uduppa on ghatam and Charulatha...
View ArticleSridevi displays her philatelic collection on artistes, music instruments
A philately exhibition was planted in the driveway to the college quadrangle at Seshadripuram. And it attracted rasikas; especially children.N. Sridevi is a keen philatelist and at the concert venue...
View ArticleThe hundis are prominent under the Big Tent
Digital hundi?Some version of this is seen at prominent places inside the Big Mantap in Charmarajpet. The stainless steel hundi, some 3 feet tall carries a signboard of PayTM, encouraging rasikas to...
View ArticleThe T. M. Krishna show
They call him a maverick. They call his music prodigious. They hang to words he says on stage, between songs. They go at him for comments made in his columns. Vocalist T M Krishna draws the ayes and...
View ArticleWelcome to 2018 edition of Sri Ramanavami Fest Music Season
Bangalore's popular and annual music festival at the time of Sri Ramanavami has come alive for the 2018 season.And we at KutcheriBuzz ( www.kutcheribuzz.com), the web site for classical music and dance...
View Article80th edition of fest of Sri Ramaseva Mandali in Chamarajpet
The Big Daddy among the mandalis, Sri Ramaseva Mandali in Bangalore's old area of Chamarajpet presents the 80th edition of this festival which it now calls a Global Music Festival, with its team saying...
View ArticleGet tickets online. Watch concerts web-streamed.
This year, if you are keen to attend most concerts at Sri Ramaseva Mandali's Bit Tent in Chamarajpet you do not have to queue up to buy tickets.There is an online facility - go to -...
View ArticleHere are the concert schedules! Online.
For a listing of key concerts at Bangalore's main mandalis you may visit the KutcheriBuzz web site at www.kutcheribuzz.comDownload the PDF file and seek out details at your convenience.KutcheriBuzz...
View ArticleGayathri Venkataraghavan's is opening concert of fest in Basaveshwara Nagar
With the Metro connecting many parts of Bangalore, Yelachenahalli to Rajaji Nagar is just 35 minutes on the Green line. The meter in the auto from Rajaji Nagar Metro station showed the minimum fare of...
View ArticleConcerts Guide for 2018 season is out
The annual Guide to Concerts of Sri Ramanavami festival is out. Published by KutcheriBuzz which is based in Chennai, it lists leading concerts of various artistes at ten venues across Bangalore over...
View ArticleBook tickets online for concerts at Chamarajpet mandali
Season tickets to concerts of Sri Ramaseva Mandali which has its fest in Chamarajpet opened on March 18.Now, when a rasika book tickets online he/she will need to pick up their hardcopy ticket after...
View ArticleA stage for teen musicians: this flutist scores
There is a positive policy, perhaps a unwritten guideline that the curators of the music festival of Sri Vani Kala Kendra follow.The stage in its Basaweshwaranagar campus is always give to young...
View ArticleBangalore's summer makes muggy evenings
The fest that Sri Vani Kala Kendra hosts works because it is hugely supported by rasikas of the neighbourhood - though there are a few who journey from Seshadripuram and Malleswaram to attend the...
View ArticleKumaresh and Jayanthi get full house
Violinist Kumaresh and veena artiste Jayanthi Kumaresh got a packed house for their concert in Basaweshwaranagar on Friday evening.This was expected considering the reputation of this couple.It took a...
View ArticleWhy isn't this music fest season getting wider coverage?
Bangalore's media does not seem to see the music season at this time of the year as something special.Its Tourism department, fairly proactive in recent times also does not see the possibility of...
View ArticleFull house for Hindustani concert; in Jayanagar
Saturday evening was full house at the new auditorium of Sri Jayarama Seva Mandali.Set in the quiet 8th Block quarter of Jayanagar where a new phase of work on the Metro rail system is going on, the...
View ArticleIn Vyalikaval, OST has two young artistes on his side
O. S. Thiagarajan is a regular Bangalore traveller from Chennai. For he is featured at concerts round the year in the city.It was his evening on stage for the mandali of the Vyalikaval Extension...
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