Gifted Singer Sai Sivani Electrifies Telugu Community
On January 10th, upcoming young playback singer Chy. Kum. Sai Sivani (age 15) gave a solo music performance to the Greater Boston Telugu community (New England Area) in MA, USA.
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GOPIO-CT Ghazals Shanti Hiranand
Over 85 members of the local community gathered at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Stamford, CT to enjoy a rare evening of “ghazals” by renowned vocalist Shanti Hiranand and her talented group of musicians.
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Boogie Woogie Hangama In Connecticut
Somalee Cheddha and Anishaa Mukharjee were the winners of the Boogie Woogie dance contest held by Milan Cultural Association, CT, on January 29th.
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Learn Quest Academy Music Festival Attracts Legendary Performers And Emerging Artists
From March 31st to April 4th, Learn Quest Academy annual music festival attracts Carnatic legendary artists like Lalgudi's, U. Srinivas, Unni Krishnan, Sangeeta Sivakumar, Kunnakudi, upcoming music group Akshara and local artists like Durga Krishnan, K.V.S. Vinay, Mahalingam Santhanakrishnan and Gaurishankar.
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MA Boogie Woogie Dance Competition
Luv Karia, Ami Shalabh, Alok Macharla, Anoop Macharla, Subh Agrawal and Chirg Sethi won the Boogie Woogie junior and senior Boogie Woogie dance talent competition hosted by the India Society of Worcester.
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Mesmerizing Veena Recital
Highschoolers Guhan and Vignesh, sons of Lakshmi and Venkataman, presented a delightful concert at the Sri Lakshmi Temple with a maturity of seasoned professionals. The audience was mesmerized.
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New England Wins In Cleveland
Amritha Mangalat, Prayuth Nandotha and Harini Rajasekar won the Bharatanatyam, Flute and Violin competitions at the Cleveland Thiagaraja Aradhana.
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MITHAS Launches New Initiatives With In Home Concerts
MITHAS, captured this experience on April 25th at their first In Home series hosted by Raj and Nalini Sharma at their residence in Sharon. The Sunday concert showcased the areas rising stars who are still at High School, Sriva Raghavan as the vocalist, Rasika Murali on the violin and Ullas Rao on the Mridangam supported by their teachers Tara Anand and Pravin Sitaram
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2010 Haasya Kavi Sammelan
The Haasya Ras (humorous) Kavi Sammelan had the audience roaring with laughter from the get go. Mahendra Ajanabi, Ashkaran Atal and Arun Gemini regaled audiences with jokes and their poems. The event was organized by ISW and the Antarashtriya Hindi Manch.
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Phoolan Devi: The Bandit Queen
Shrish Korde’s brilliant Multi-Media chamber opera describing the life and times of Phoolan Devi had many original elements including setting an Atlantic Monthly interview to music and incorporating Indian classical music and dance alongside western operatic singing. New England's Deepti Navaratana, Aditya Kalyanpur and Mesma Belsare were brilliant. Urmila Basu Malllick was cute as young Phoolon.
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Delightful Spring Dance Festival In CT
Swathi Kamakshi Ravi, Jeyanthi Ghatraju, Sujatha Meyyappan, Radhika Jaishankar, Abhirami Manian (student of Thenu Rajan) and Monica Lakshmi Manickam (student of Ranjani Saigal) performed at the Namaskaar Foundation's world dance festival along with dancers from around the world.
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Longwood Symphony Orchestra Supports ATASK
A fabulous performance by the Longwood Symphony Orchestra (LSO) with Jonathan McPhee as conductor helps raise funds for the Asian Task Force, an organization that helps victims of domestic violence.
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MITHAS Fundraiser At Chinmaya Delights Music Lovers
A year ago the chairperson of the MITHAS' board, Geetha Krishnamurthy asked the then newly elected board member and local artist/teacher, Durga Krishnan if it would be possible for her to put together a fund raiser program for MITHAS. The concert on May 16, 2010 at the Chinmaya Mission was born out of that request and delighted the audience immensely.
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Sanjeevani Bhelande Concert - Ekal Vidyalaya
Sanjeevani Bhelande, the first winner of of Sa Re Ga Ma presented a scintillating concert at the Marlboro Middle school on May 2 2010. The concert was organized as a fundraiser for the Ekal Vidyalaya foundation.Over 350 people attended the event.
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Dil Ki Mehfil
The trio of Raghu Sudha and Krithika had the audience helped make May Day a day of music and melody.
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Apaar Bangla - New England's Own Bengali Band
Bengalis love their fish, their football, and then some adda (gossip). But rock and roll, urban pop? You bet! The 400-odd people at the concert by New England’s very own Bengali band, Apaar Bangla, would testify to that.
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Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty - Indian Classical Vocal Concert
A vocal raag-sangeet concert by Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty to celebrate 150th Birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore was co-sponsored by Learnquest Academy of Music and Boston University School of Medicine.
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Hindus Gather For A Temple To Call Their Own
A fundraiser event for New Hampshire Temple featured Aparna Balaji with her frontline students, accompanied by leading instrumental artists K.V.S. Vinay on violin, Dr. Ramachandran Balakrishnan also on violin, Shankar Raman on mridangam, Prayuth Naduthota on flute, and Soundarya Ganesh on veena along with the dance students of Neha Parikh.
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