iCarnatic brings live mid-year music festival from Chennai

[icarnatic]

Dear friends,

iCarnatic.org has partnered with Charsur Arts Foundation to bring you Mid Year Music Festival from August 13-16, 2011. We will webcasting a total of 8 concerts (see below for details). You can subscribe to the entire concert series for a nominal amount of $25/- per family ($15 for India based viewers). The concerts will be broadcast live and re-broadcasted on weekend evenings for North American Audience.

Please visit http://www.icarnatic.org/concerts.aspx for concert details and online subscription.

Enjoy the music and support a great cause of preserving our classical music.

Regards

Krishnan Subramaniam
(iCarntic.org volunteer)

[Nick H]

Are these concerts public events?

I could only see about internet access on your site.

[icarnatic]

Hello Nick,

These concerts will be broadcast live from Chennai, India. Concerts will be performed at Naradha Gana Sabha, mini hall. If you are in Chennai, we encourage you to attend in person.

Regards

iCarnatic.org

[Nick H]

Thank you.

I am on your mailing list, and since I posted that, I have received the email circular.

There are at least a couple of concerts that, all being well, I will certainly attend.

Thanks again.

[icarnatic]

Nick, Thank you for your support. Some of you have enquired -- who are the main artists in this concert series. Details are available on our web page. Here is the summary:

August 13, 2011 (Time in Indian Standard Time)

• 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM IST - Sangita Kala Ratna Neela Ramgopal (Vocal)
  6:30 PM - 8:30PM IST - Dr. Pantula Rama (Vocal)

August 14, 2011

• 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM IST - Sangita Kalanidhi R Vedavalli (Vocal)
  6:30 - 8:30 PM IST - Gayathri Venkataraghavan (Vocal)

August 15, 2011

• 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM IST - Sangita Choodamani Sugana Purshotaman & Sangita Kala Acharya Suguna Varadachari (Vocal)
  6:30 PM - 8:30PM IST - Sangita Kala Sarathi Neyveli Santanagopalan

August 16, 2011

• 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM IST - Mambalam Sisters Vijayalakshmi & Chitra (Vocal)
  6:30 PM - 8:30PM IST - Abhishek Raghuram (Vocal)

Re-Broadcast Schedule
August 13, 2011

• 4:15PM to 6:15PM US Central Time - Sangita Kala Ratna Neela Ramgopal (Vocal)
  6:30PM to 8:30PM US Central Time - Dr. Pantula Rama (Vocal)

August 14, 2011

• 4:15PM to 6:15PM US Central Time - Sangita Kalanidhi R Vedavalli (Vocal)
  6:30PM to 8:30PM US Central Time - Gayathri Venkataraghavan (Vocal)

August 20, 2011

• 4:15PM to 6:15PM US Central Time - Sangita Choodamani Sugana Purshotaman & Sangita Kala Acharya Suguna Varadachari (Vocal)
  6:30PM to 8:30PM US Central Time - Sangita Kala Sarathi Neyveli Santanagopalan (Vocal)

August 21, 2011

• 4:15PM to 6:15PM US Central Time - Mambalam Sisters Vijayalakshmi & Chitra (Vocal)
  6:30PM to 8:30PM US Central Time - Abhishek Raghuram (Vocal)

[sagars]

today i couldnt see any programme. Nothing was coming. The screen wa showing offline.

[mahesh3]

worked great for me! watching the suguna mamis on independence day was just divine....how are they able to sing so beautifully as a duo, without particularly practicing as a duo for a lifetime....

was somewhat of a letdown to see OST, instead of Neyveli....but nevertheless, quite good quality streaming!

[mahavishnu]

Mahesh3, If you get around to watching Abhishek Raghuram's concert tomorrow, could you please post a songlist/review?
Did OST have the originally scheduled accompanists for NSG?

[icarnatic]

Hello Sagars,

I assume you have subscribed to the program. If so, did you try to reach us on the Online Chat. None of our subscribers reported any issues in viewing. If you have issues tomorrow, please do reach out to us via the online chat.

For those who are feeling bad that they missed the concerts, it is still not late. We will be rebroadcasting the concerts over the next two weekends. Please check our website for rebroadcast time. Your ticket is valid to see the live as well as rebroadcasts.

Regards

iCarnatic.org

[rasika789]

Terrible audio and video quality- I want to know what the refund policy for this is??? Terrible lag, and the one video camera setup is extremely amateurish. On top of that- I was VERY surprised to see that you're using LiveStream to stream the concerts, instead of going with a professional crew in Chennai to record and stream your concerts (like Hooghli)

Very surprised to see that a high caliber company like Charsur has associated itself with such an amateurish website

The video is of very bad resolution- nowhere close to HD standards. The audio is being captured BY THE CAMERA- whoever is behind this icarnatic website has some serious research to do before beginning to charge users to watch these concerts. A great example of a PROFESSIONAL video concert can be found on http://www.darbar.org.uk/

For example, check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJQ--faCe1Y

What great video quality. Icarnatic is doing a major injustice towards Carnatic Music by charging users to watch concerts that are being streamed on a FREE website like livestream. I was terribly disappointed to say the least

[veeyens3]

rasika789, I had a different experience while seeing/listening to the webcast of the functions held iI n barathiya vidyabavan I could log in for the last three days only and on all these days, had a very good reception in California. Being a non techie, I may not be able to match you in reviewing the the web cast but for a nonogenerian, I felt my losing about 90 mts of sleep everyday was justified One more thing, it was FREE