A great Friday!!!

Attended the Ganesh Utsav festival organized at APS Grounds Basavangudi last friday.
It started off with soulful bhajans, then pooja by Sri Sri Sri Ravi Shankar [founder of Art of living] and then by an awesome concert by Pt. Shivkumar sharma and Rahul Sharma on Santoor.Santoor,[or the shat-tantra-veena meaning 100 strings] has been modified by Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma to make it suitable for classical music.There were 2raagas which were performed :Raga Rageshwari and Raag Mishra Pahadi,accompanied by tabla and Ghatam. I can only say that the whole experience was great,the artists wove sheer magic with the music they created and it left me wanting more.What an evening!!

I am proud to be born in a country with such great musical diversity. Come to think of it,music is inseperable from our tradition.Our Gods are also associated with Music/Dance.Like Saraswati Devi with the Veena and Lord Krishna with the flute,and lord Shiva is called Nataraj,the king of dance .

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