It was a meeting that would give Coimbatore its first margazhi event featuring performances by young children. The two-day event that featured music, stories and dance, paved the way for Durgesh to collaborate with Avanti Natarajan of Lil Trails, that held the event with Aalaap, an initiative for the performing arts. The two women, both mothers of girls interested in …
This Margazhi, The Hindu has introduced an AI Chatbot that will pull out the concert schedules of around 30 sabhas and hundreds of artistes performing during the season. The Hindu Margazhi Sabha Schedule AI Chatbot, as it is called, can help the discerning sabha hopper to get details of over 1,400 concerts, dance and drama performances, lecture-demonstrations and all other …
December is the month of festivals, and music fills the air in Chennai, the actual and cultural capital of Tamil Nadu. Despite the clear divide between “classical” and “folk” which is also drawn on the lines of caste and location, the Chennai Sangamam created a platform for the coming together of classical and folk art performers, and offered a continuity …
If you are among the under-40 musicians sending in online entries for The Hindu Margazhi Music Contest, don’t you want to know who the judges are? The judges for the competition are musician, dance scholar and writer Sujatha Vijayaraghavan, vocalist and an associate professor of French Varalakshmi Anandakumar, violinists LN Sisters and gurus M. Lalitha and M. Nandhini, Mridangist and …
Held for the first time in the city, Mumbai Margazhi Mahotsavam enthralled a packed auditorium in St. Andrew’s College with Carnatic music for 12 hours over cups of hot filter coffee. Conceived and produced by Banyan Tree Events, the festival featured renowned Carnatic musicians and artistes like K.M. “The festival would have given the listeners a comprehensive idea of Carnatic …