Benefit Concert by Aishu Venkataraman

[StanfordSanskriti]

Join Stanford Sanskriti and Stanford SPICMACAY for a Carnatic violin concert featuring Aishu Venkataraman. The concert will be followed by a short reception and chance to meet the artist in the lobby. All proceeds from ticket and CD sales will be donated to Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian aid organization that provides urgent medical care in countries affected by war or disaster.

Saturday, February 22 - Doors open at 4:45 pm. Concert begins at 5:15 pm.

Location:
Stanford University - Dinkelspiel Auditorium
471 Lagunita Drive
Stanford, CA 94305

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at http://www.divinestrings.eventbrite.com

If unable to attend, donations of any denomination can be made via our fundraising page: http://events.doctorswithoutborders.org ... /Sanskriti

Donations can also be made out to Doctors Without Borders and mailed to:

Ravali Reddy
531 Lasuen Mall
P.O. Box 16999
Stanford, CA 94305

Please complete and include the following form with your mailed donation so that we may submit it to the organization on your behalf: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/d ... _print.cfm

We hope to generate $10,000 for Doctors Without Borders through this event, and we greatly appreciate your support in helping us reach this charitable goal.

[rshankar]

Best wishes to Aishu and Vinod! DWB is one of my favorite organizations, so I'm very happy that you are supporting them.

[cacm]

GOOD LUCK TO AISHU. SHE IS FOR A ROLE MODEL FOR TODAY'S LEADING ARTISTS IN CARNATIC ARTISTS NOT ONLY IN TERMS OF PURE PERFECTION OF HER PLAYING IN MOST ASPECTS BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY IS FOLLOWING THE TRADITION OF M.S.S. & M.M.I. WHO DONATED MOST OF THEIR EARNINGS TO DESERVING CAUSES & PROMOTING GREAT CAUSES. IF MMI had not sung concerts to help MANIKODI WRITERS like K.P. R.& MSHELPED SO MANY CAUSES MODERN TAMILWRITING WOULD NOT BE WHERE IT IS TODAY; IN THE CASE OF M.S. WORDS CANNOT ADEQUATELY DESCRIBE HER CONTRIBUTIONS IN THIS AREA.
IT IS EVEN MORE HEART WARMING THAT AISHU WAS BORN & LIVES IN USA & A BRILLIANT STUDENT TO BOOT. GOOD LUCK TO HER. VKV

[parivadini]

Join Stanford Sanskriti and Stanford SPICMACAY for a Carnatic violin concert featuring Aishu Venkataraman. The concert will be followed by a short reception and chance to meet the artist in the lobby. All proceeds from ticket and CD sales will be donated to Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian aid organization that provides urgent medical care in countries affected by war or disaster..

Great Job and Great Cause - have taken the liberty of sharing this on our FB page https://www.facebook.com/parivadinimusi ... 7658178160

Good luck with the event

Cheers
Venkat

[mahavishnu]

Great! I look forward to being at the event in person

[appu]

Awesome job Ms. Sanskriti from Stanford. A great cause. I plan to be there with a couple of my friends. Please keep updating this post so that it does not drop to the bottom, lest people forget.

Looking forward to an awesome concert. Can you please update accompaniments when available.

[PUNARVASU]

Great initiative! All the best to Aishu and the organisers.

[StanfordSanskriti]

Thank you all so much for your kind words and support! We greatly appreciate it, and we look forward to having many of you present at the concert.

For those of you who are new to Aishu's music, here is a link to Aishu's latest project, New Sound Sundays, in which she shares a new ragam each week based on suggestions and requests. Please do take a listen:https://soundcloud.com/aishuv/sets/new-sound-sundays

[Ramasubramanian M.K]

Aishu: Good Luck and best wishes for success of the cause and the concert(of which I have absolutely no doubt!!!).The 3 pieces--Behag,Suruti and Thodi were excellent--vintage TNK style--well-preserved and well-served!! Please do broaden your krithi repertoire!!
YOU ARE AN INSPIRATION TO OUR YOUNGSTERS ABROAD!!!
I have your Boston concert in mind--will follow up when I reach NY this weekend!!
Regards to Papa Vinod!!!

Ramesh Mama.

[aishuv]

Thank you everyone for your support!! It really is an honor to have been asked to perform for such a worthy cause. A special thanks to Stanford Sanskriti and Stanford SPICMACAY for putting in the work to organize this event.

I am really looking forward to sharing our music with my peers at Stanford, as well as rasikas from the Bay Area community. Hope to see many of you in the audience!

[Ramasubramanian M.K]

I strongly recommend that forumites living in the Bay Area attend the concert as a show of support for a talented youngster performing for a noble cause. MAHAVISHNU Rally the troops from your "brigade"!!!

[arasi]

Aishu,
I agree with every word that VKV says. You are a role model for the children in North America and elsewhere. They all may not be prodigies like you, but can aspire to be a musician like you by emulating your diligence and hard work. Your energy flows into your music and also
your studies.
We are cheering for you from the sidelines all the way...

Mahavishnu,
Looking forward to your review. Hope Appu and friends and many other rasikAs go to hear Aishu and help a good cause as well.

[appu]

Arasiji

I am definitely planning to attend with eight of my colleagues and family. Looking forward to this event and looking forward to supporting a great cause. DWB is one of my favorite charities. Love the work these souls do to help others.

[Gadolinium]

Aishu,
Hope Appu and friends and many other rasikAs go to hear Aishu and help a good cause as well.

I'll be there too. Look forward!

[RKrishnamurthy]

It is heartening to see musicians taking up charitable causes. In this context I would like to share some experience of mine. Many years ago when Rohan and I were in Chennai during the music season, we decided to arrange a program for the residents of The Banyan, a home for destitute women started by two sisters. I contacted them and they were very excited since the music season only hovers around the sabhas. Luckily we had Prasant Radhakrishnan, a saxophone virtuoso who lives in the Bay area available. He readily agreed and they two gave 90 minute evening concert. Prasant is a magician with his instrument and of course mridangam can make any one attentive. Half way through the concert some audience started dancing, some crying and some keeping thalam very correctly. Though destitute, some of them had training in CM. At the end of the concert we sponsored a dinner for all the residents and they were humbled when we joined them for the dinner saying"Oh you from America are eating with us!". The Banyan directors were adamant that no press be invited and we obliged them. The Hindu did bring up a story later on. Few years later, when Rohan and I visited the then Indian President Dr Abdul Kalam in the Rashtrapathy Bhavan, he was moved to hear that Rohan and Prasant gave a concert for the Residents of The Banyan. That is when he said"Rohan you are a true Cultural Ambassador".
Again back in Kalamazoo, the Juvenile Detention Center (Read prison for young people) asked Rohan if he can give performance to instill a level of focus on them. We were apprehensive obviously, given the kind of "sabha" where he will perform!. But Rohan agreed and gave 30 minute solo which the inmates listened to in rapt attention and some said" when we are released we want to learn mridangam".
In sum, I applaud the North American musical talents who use their god given skills towards humanity even if their ultimate goal in life is not to be a musician but a doctor, engineer, lawyer or what ever.
Professor Rama Krishnamurthy

[bilahari]

Excellent choice of charity. The MSF chief, an Indian, gave an insightful talk in Singapore two years ago in which he outlined their massive public health efforts, the initiatives they undertake (they have whole, inflatable hospitals!), and he was very forthright about the worsening burden of chronic disease like diabetes which is a great challenge to an organisation that only offers people care for a period of time, leaving people without access to the long-term medical following and treatment they need for such disease. He said even in the poor countries in Africa, MSF can deal with the outbreaks of cholera but cannot deal with hypertension and diabetes, which are just as prevalent there. I did not realise they have a great research program, but they do, often attempting to use previously approved drugs for new purposes (he gave a good example of using a drug no longer in production but with a lot left over that they found incidentally treats something else very effectively - I'm blanking on the details).

Best wishes to Aishu and Sanskriti for a successful program!

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[kvchellappa]

Is there some way these intrusions can be checked?

[appu]

Aishu,

All the best today. We are here in full force to support you. Waiting for doors to open. Did not realize it is Parents weekend down here at Stanford.

[mahavishnu]

Aishu & Vinod: My apologies for not being in attendance today. I am down with some kind of flu