Carnatica's New Year Celebrations - 'Carnatic 2010'

nivedita · Post by **nivedita** » 31 Dec 2009, 10:29

[h]Carnatica[/h]

Presents

In Association with The Music Academy

And Youth Association for Classical Music (YACM)

[h]Eastern Ethnic Eve - Carnatic 2010[/h]

A unique New Year bash for all Carnatic musicians and rasikas!

10:00 pm to 2:30 am on Dec 31st - Jan 1st

At The Music Academy, Chennai

Be a part of the best New Year party in the city this year!

Carnatica, a premier organization promoting Carnatic music worldwide, is back with its New Year extravaganza - the only event of its kind to welcome the New Year, involving the entire Carnatic music fraternity!

Celebrate the New Year with 10 Thematic Presentations, for 20 mins each, by your favourite Carnatic celebrities, veterans and up-and-coming talents!

Participating musicians: Sangita Kalanidhi Dr. N. Ramani, Sangita Kalanidhi M. Chandrasekharan, Chitravina Ravikiran, T.M. Krishna, Malladi Brothers, Neyveli Santhanagopalan, Vijay Siva, S. Sowmya, The GayaThreeÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s - Gayathri Venkataraghavan, Gayathri Girish, K. Gayathri; Suryaprakash, Papanasam Ashok Ramani, Embar Kannan, Nisha Rajagopal, Savita Narasimhan, Srimushnam Raja Rao, R.K. Shriramkumar, Embar Kannan, Thanjavur Murugabhoopathy, Padma Shankar, Kunnakudy Balamuralikrishna, Ghatam Karthik, V.L. Kumar, Allam Durgaprasad, Nirmala Rajasekhar, Keyboard Sathya, Thiruvarur Swaminathan, Sai Narasimhan, and many, many more!

Themes:

Filter Kapi: Veterans perform compositions in Kapi raga!

Role reversal: Vocalists play instruments; Instrumentalists sing or play instruments they are not known for!

Ragamalika: Film songs, with alapana!

Manodharmam: A garland of alapana-s, to be sung non-stop, each for ten seconds!

At the stroke of midnight: All artists and rasikas sing Maithreem Bhajatha, Shanti Nilava Vendum and Endaro Mahanubhavulu together.

New Year Special Pallavi

Fusion

Breathless Filmy Kalyani

Kids Special

Anthakshari

There will be quizzes, prizes, interaction between musicians and rasikas, and of course, fun, music and unlimited entertainment!

Entry free for all!

smriti · Post by **smriti** » 31 Dec 2009, 11:53

Definitely plan to be there for this one! It'll be the first time ever that I will be celebrating it with CM. The (US) Desi way is to have Bollywood-kind of music and chatter away late into the night!

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 31 Dec 2009, 13:46

This sounds like it would be so much fun! Hoping for a report on this programme...

kharaharapriyajanyam · Post by **kharaharapriyajanyam** » 31 Dec 2009, 20:02

It is very good but there is a chandra grahanam tonight. That will probably keep away a few people like me!

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 31 Dec 2009, 22:42

This is indeed such a great idea. I hope for a report, too!

VK RAMAN · Post by **VK RAMAN** » 31 Dec 2009, 22:48

Great move and great way to celebrate

Always_Evolving · Post by **Always_Evolving** » 01 Jan 2010, 11:31

I was at this event till around 12.30 -- first for me. I congratulate Carnatica for thinking up this nice concept. SO much better than most conventional methods of ringing in the new year. There was variety: stalwarts, kids, CM based film music, fusion. The standard was uniformly high and the mood jolly. The piping hot pongal-sambar and other goodies outside were welcome after a long and busy day for me. And it was all for free to the public!

It would be nice to have an even more interactive space - the music academy always comes across a bit stiff and formal.

Fantastic effort, considering Carnatica has organized at least 3 different parallel series this season -- Samarpanam @ MGR-Janaki, Interactive workshops @KGS, Coffee w/ artists @ Sangeetha-restaurant. Not to mention the 25-odd concerts presented by their director Shashikiran over the course of 30 days. Thats nothing short of amazing.

prashant · Post by **prashant** » 01 Jan 2010, 22:21

I was fortunate to attend a couple of the concerts organized by Carnatica this year, as well as the 'Nerukku Ner' event with Shri Nedunuri. All were very well organized. The effort put in by the team at Carnatica during the season seems to have been incredible. I wish them all success, and hope for many more great Season [and non-season] events from them. Kudos Shri Shashikiran and team!

srkris · Post by **srkris** » 01 Jan 2010, 23:24

Hope it was videographed. Would like to watch it when I get to India later in the month.

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 02 Jan 2010, 06:48

Way to go Carnatica team. Great efforts.Best wishes.

uday_shankar · Post by **uday_shankar** » 02 Jan 2010, 07:07

A special congratulations to forumite Nivedita ... who manages to pack a career as a Carnatic vocalist, TV presenter, event organizer, compere and God knows what million other things we don't know...a fitting disciple for the redoubtable Shashikiran.

These people are a great inspiration to me.

bilahari · Post by **bilahari** » 02 Jan 2010, 07:11

Indeed, I am quite convinced that Nivedita operates at a speed exceeding 3E8 m/s.

Sivaramakrishnan · Post by **Sivaramakrishnan** » 03 Jan 2010, 12:23

I could not attend the prog. Will anybody give somewhat a detailed write up? What did they do at the stroke of 00.00 jan 1?
What were the fun tems in the event?