“It’s a punishment to listen to one’s own music” said a prominent Carnatic musician many years back. I am reminded of that everytime I...

Sanjay Subrahmanyan – Vocal S Varadarajan – Violin Neyveli B Venkatesh – Mrudangam April 23 – Phoenix April 24 – Seattle April 30 –...

The Tamil Nadu Iyal Isai Nataka Mandram had a great scheme for promotion of talent in music, dance etc. One generally applied as...

Kalayami raghuramam is a composition of Swati Tirunal in the ragam Begada and set to Misra Chapu. I first heard this song in a GNB...

The last four days, some of my students were presented in Ragasudha hall in a concert series. In the late eighties and early nineties...

Just got back from a concert at Delhi. After the concert an old timer came up tome and said “Thank you so much for singing Brindavanam...

Yesterday was my annual trip to the SGBS concert at Bangalore. SGBS is the Sree Guruvayurappan Bhajana Samaj, that conducts a music...

Yesterday I was in Madurai singing a concert for the annual festival of Ragapriya. This is a very interesting sabha that started in the...

Just got back from a concert at Bangalore yesterday. The venue was the Bangalore Gayana Samaja – Shouldn’t it be Bengaluru Gayana Samaja...

This morning I had a recording at the AIR Chennai studios and as I walked in I was reminded of my very first stint there. It was 1984 and...

Yesterday was a concert at the Ayyappa temple in Anna Nagar, Chennai. The organisers had decided to honour Shri MSG, with a title and it...