Aruna Sairam (Carnatic Vocal) at the Darbar Festival 2009

Aruna Sairam (Carnatic Vocal) with Jyotsna Shrikant (violin), Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam), RN Prakash (ghatam) and Priya Parkash (tanpura)

Aruna Sairam is one of the best voices to emerge from the Carnatic tradition of southern India an this concert presents a rich repertoire of beautiful and rare classical compositions as well as lighter folk forms and melodies.

Darbar Festival 2009
Described by one artist as the G20 summit of Indian music and by World Music magazine Songlines as surely Britains best festival of south Asian music, the Darbar Festival is says arts journalist, Jameela Siddiqui a place where everyone expects and gets the highest quality performances of Indian classical music.
Indian classical music is arguably one of the most complex and complete systems of music ever developed. What began as Vedic chants several thousand years ago developed into a sophisticated musical system by the 3rd century.
The music is based on a single melody line, which is played over a fixed drone and the performance is based melodically on particular ragas and rhythmically on talas. The music has been passed down orally. Improvisation predominates and written notation, when used, is skeletal.
This series from the Darbar Festival, presented by Lopa Kothari, features ten outstanding performances from artists from the two main strands of Indian classical music, the North Indian Hindustani and South Indian Carnatic traditions.

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• Shrikant
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• Prakash
• carnatic
• mridagam
• ghatam
• zakir
• niten
• darbar
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[darbarfestival]

The raag for Ragam Tanam pallavi is Shanmukhapriya

[Sandyisane]

Wow.. also the woman in white is gorgeous...

[btphani]

The violinist is par excellence. Very classy! Very non-chalant yet vulnerable....a delight!

[unhingedmind]

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[chanderpaul867]

HATS OFF TO PATRI SATISHKUMAR AND THE VIOLINIST.....EXCELLENT PERFORMACE

[acbdonappan]

Gokulram Arunasalam

The mridangam player Patri Satish Kumar is phenomenal! Have seen him live.

[omsatya]

What Ragam is this, it is beautiful!

[Jannagan]

Sathish kumar amazing!

[Rajvirdee]

I was there and humby agree that we could easily have enjoyed more from Aruna Ji - however may I kindly point out that this performance was part of a bigger festival and as such, its in the nature of festivals to present more than one artist per performance...

[qcllabprinceton]

Extremely , totally spell binding ..fabulous.. mastreo ...amazing..I am jus thrilled and short of words for wonderful Singing, violin and Mridangam !!!!

[iwanurreply]

superb shaNmukhapriya!

[trigaya]

Simply Fantastic. She is the diva of music!