Concert for the delegates of a NGO on 22nd Jul'08


I performed for the delegates of CCI on the 22nd July'08 which was enjoyed by the audience present. It was for the first time i was teaming up with Pkala Jayaprakash anna on violin with Suri uncle on Mrudhangam and Hari anna on Ghatam. Raghavan uncle of Balaji audios managed the PA system.

I understand Jayaprakash anna is actually a Sportsman - with State representation in Hockey, Cricket and Chess. However his family is full of violin artists and so he also decided to take up this art. Looking forward to outstation trips with this anna, as we will have great time playing off stage also!

Here is the link for the video clipings:


http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=068F52F134190EEE

I had the opportunity to perform a concert at Rajapalayam for the second time after almost 3 years. It was so nice that people remembered me and had lots of appreciation also at the end of the concert. Along with Venkat anna on violi, Arjun anna on mrudhangam and Hari anna on the Ghatam we had a good time on stage and also off-stage with activities of playing cricket and visiting Andal and Vaithyanadhaswamy temples.

Had fun time with the temple tank playing with the fishes by feeding pori. We also saw Kili Josyam for all of us and it was nice that we were cause for teh kili to eat 6 extra rice. Looking forward to another trip next month to Rajapalayam.

Met Sri Dasaradha Raja & family who were so nice and had invited us for a coffee in their house. We also went to my relatives house and had good lunch. Special mention was for the sweat they gave!

Public concert in Chrompet on 13th Jul'08

Nandhikeswarar Thala Vidhyalaya Concert 13Jul08

The concert during Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan uncle's Nandhikeshwarar Thala Vidhyalaya was one of the best of my concerts as said by my thatha who attended the same with us. In fact this is probably the biggest audience i have had putting thalam almost through out the concert and it gave us - the artists on stage a great feeling. Venkat anna on violin, Arjun Ganesh anna on Mrudhangam, Hari ana on Ghatam and Sathya on Morsing all gave an excellent performance which was appreciated by one and all. Please go thru' the photos taken during this concert. You can log on to the following link for the audio recording:

http://sangeethamshare.org/sathya/017_Chrompet-Nadhikeswarar-Thala-Vidhyalaya-13jul08/

Birthday celebration of my cousin Sowmyanarayanan

Here are the pictures taken and it was indeed a great evening for me.

Sowmya's Birthday celebration

July 03, 2008 - Private concert in Chennai

This was with a new combination of Sherthalai Sivakumar uncle on Silent violin, Arjun Ganesh anna on Mrudhangam, Nerkunam Shankar anna on Kanjeera and HariharaSubramanian anna on Ghatam and Morsing. The team really jelled well and had a great concert, thanks to Karthck uncle of Karthick audio who had to control the sound in a big way due to the large auditorium. The audience included many great present day musicians and almost every one was interested and had knowledge of our traditional music.

I understand it was for the first time Sherthalai Sivakumar uncle had seen his daughter Lalitha, she is around 3 years (my mother's name sake) sit through a full concert & also had her dinner. This is indeed a great recognition for this team of musicians and the Chef for the day and am sure we can pat ourselves at the back for a acceptable presentations.

Jun 25, 2008 - a private concert

It was one of the concert i would like to remember for a long time not only for the kind of performance we presented but the celebrity people who attended the function. Yes it was for a family of a leading Advertising agency and had who's who of Chennai to greet and bless the occasion. With Ananthakrishnan anna on violin, Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan uncle on Mrudhangam and Hari anna on Morsing we were only blessed with E.M. Subramaniam uncle performing with us on Ghatam. A satisfying presentation from our side and i am sure the people who attended were also happy as i got appreciation from many of them after the concert.

An article in The Hindu about my dear Paul Jacob uncle.

I am happy to give here tha link for the article published in The Hindu today - 17th Jun'08. I am sure you will also like for his modesty and the innovative ideas he has.

http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/06/17/stories/2008061750020100.htm

If you want to speak to him call him at his studios o44 - 2822 5967

A good trip of appa's to Sabarimala.

My appa was off to Sabarimala and was there last Saturday and Sunday 15, 16 Jun'08. As my school re-opened on the 13th and also had full working day on the 14th had to miss this trip. May be will try and make it next trip.

After having a good bath in the river in Chenganoor appa and his friends total 14 of them proceeded to Pamba enroute having good food arranged by member's families. We could not do any thing as my amma had recording on Friday the day they left. We managed to see them off at the Temple before they left to the station. Understand appa enjoyed the entire trip and had a good pilgrimage trip to Sabarimala.

I understand the crowd was very less and so they all could have close dharshan and also any number of times they wanted. Indeed a great trip!!

Appa called us on the 16th morning from the Mahasannidhanam and said any one can call Lord Iyyappa on mobile as he had one to answer. I just thought he was joking then later understood that he had lost his mobile. He was just worried only about the contact numbers stored in the phone and Sim card.

I just want to tell all my well wishers to please try and update your contacts if you have stored or else please get to the practice of storing and updating same in your computers. Appa had updated before 2 months but had made lot of changes and so could probably mange to get 75% of the contacts. I thought of putting this info so that it helps all who sees this message and get the useful habit of storing and updating contacts.

My grand parent's 50th Wedding Anniversary and my performance in AIR

10th June - a great day being my grand parent's (my father's parents) 50th Wedding Anniversary. We celebrated ina small way at home as both my Chithappa and one Athai are not in Chennai right now. It also was a great day for me as i got the oppurtunity to perform violin in AIR - All India Radio which will be on Air in Madras 'B' in Medium Way in Radio at around 615 pm on the 24th June'08. I played Vandhe Sadha - Navarasa Kanada and Deva Deva Kalayamithey - Mayamalavagowla

2008 Summer holiday tour!

My Holiday trip to - Sterling Swamimalai

It was once again a great holiday trip with my parents and grand parents (appa's parents) & this time it was suddenly decided and we went on a 3day trip to Swamimalai on the 5th June morning. We went straight to Sterling Swamimalai and had a swim in the pool which looked like a temple tank. A great property to stay which makes you feel as if you are in a village. The cottages / rooms are all like individual house in small streets and you find every thing you can see in a village in a great working condition. From a coffee powder making machine, bullock cart, boilers, old vessels, a two bladed fan, etc etc.. I have given here a set of photos of our trip which has many photos of the resort and am sure it will interest you to visit it too! It is really a worth visiting destination!

We also saw many temples and spent most of my time in the Swimming pool with appa and thatha. We enjoyed the trip with dharshans at various temples and as a dhristi had a minor accident on way back. Our car got hurt and god saved us! The photos of the driver and the bus which hit us while the driver was trying to reverse his vehicle without noticing our car, are also given in this link. This was the only mishap in the entire trip which otherwise was indeed a memorable experience!

IPL finals after my concewrt on 01 June, 2008

After the concert today at Marundheewarar Temple, Thiruvanmiyur, Balu uncle asked us to come to his house for watching the IPL finals in big screen. However he was not aware that his family was planning to give him a surprise with a nice get-together with a audio visual presentation of his family and also giving a surprise to hi with all his well wishers and family members joining to greet him. I believe it was really good and my parents enjoyed the whole evening with this celebration. I did not know as i thought it was just for the cricket, which any way i had planned to see with my Kanna mama in is residence. He preferred to stay out of this dinner due to medical reasons. H/ever had we known that it was a birthday party we also would have been there. These are pictures taken during the function.

A memorable concert tour to Trichy - 31st May'08




It was a memorable trip to Trichy for the concert on the 31st Mar'08 in three ways. The concert came out good, a good trip to visit Srirangam and Ucchipillayar Temples and one in which we celebrated Arjun Ganesh anna's birthday on stage!. This was also the first outstation trip with my new camera Casio - Exslim, thanks to Diwakar uncle for buying it for me from USA.

Amma, Arjun anna, Sowri uncle and self went to Srirangam Temple and Ucchi Pillaiar temple as appa had to wait for Vijayaraghavan uncle who was joining us from Bangalore. We had the oppurtunity to go into the Srirangam temple but could not have a good dharshan, may be we are blessed for a trip soon. Then on we went to Rockfort temple and had good time climbing the rocky mountain but with good steps.

In the evening appa gave us all a surprise with a small cake cutting ceremony to celebrate Arjun Ganesh anna's birthday! He also announced a prize for any one who guesses the age of Arjun Ganesh anna correctly! Almost the entire crowd could not guess it correctly with age being said from 18 - to 46 (this was toooooo much!) H/ever two 12 year old children Amaranth and Sanjana guessed his right and were given a audio cassette of my vol 1 & 2. They were so happy and here is the same quiz passed on to you.

If any one can guess his age right to spelt out and Arjun Ganesh anna will give you nice gifts if you do not say it correctly!!! after all he also wants to be young for ever!!

I was once again blessed to meet a spiritual person who is fondly referred as "Iyyah" and he blessed me with Viboodhi and Kunguma". I saw a sparkling eyes with great divinity and was happy to have got his blessings. Hope you like these pictures and for more get to the link:

My trip to Trichy for 31st May concert'08

An interview to South Africa's Fm Radio Channel
Lotus Radio from Chennai on 26th May'08

It is always nice to be recognised and more so from the country which was one of the major reason for all what i am today! Yes i was asked to do a live music unplugged interview cum small performance today, 26th May'08 by the team of Lotus FM with Mr Manick Jhor, Ms Lois Moodley and O'Neil Nair along with my greatest well wisher cum friend Dinesh Naidoo uncle. I was asked few questions and was requested to play 2 film numbers 1. Oru Pennai Parthu from AnbeVaa and 2. Sahana Saral from Sivaji. I had a good feeling as it was Mr O'Neil Nair who had interviewed me for the same station way back in 2003 during my trip to South Africa and Mauritius for a concert series.

Private concert on 25th May'08

It was a dear well wisher of our family who is ardent carnatic rasika and we surprised to hear him say that "I want Sathya to perform 90% film and 10% carnatic songs" for a concert on the 25th May'08. Well this was a request coming from a dear one and i also wanted for a change to brush up my film songs so we were ready for the concert with just 3 more artists namely Prem uncle (Drums Sivamani uncle's brother) on Drums, Suri uncle on Bass Guitar and Rajagopal uncle on the Tabla.

We started off with Vaathapi Ganapathim then played Nagumomu in the middle & Kuria Onrum Illai followed by Bhagyadha Lakshmi to end the concert. rest were all film numbers from ld to the new i.e. from Thoongadhey Thambi Thoongadhey - a MGR starer song to Maduraikku Pogadheydi a latest Vijay Starer. The audience liked the songs selected to perform and were full praise for the Sankarabaranam song Sankara and also the old melodies like Maraindhirundhu parkum marmamenna, Poomalaiyil, Mullaimalar meley, Vasanthamullai, Agaya gangai etc.after the concert we all had a good dinner and more so a great desert treat with lots of ice-cream for us to have.

May 22'08 - A pleasant concert with a new team

It was a good concert with a mix of both Carnatic and film songs presented on the 22nd May'08 in Chennai. With Kandadevi Vijayaraghavan uncle on the violin, Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan on Mrudhanga, Tikka on Tabla (Yes it was the name of the person!), Sriram on Rhythm Pad, Sowirrajan uncle on Thavil and Bala anna on the Nadaswaram the team was effective and also had great co-ordination. Almost throughout the concert the percussion team had their specific roles and so was the violin and Nadaswaram which in effect gave rich enhancement for the concert.

It was also for the first i was seeing a video cd that too carnatic music being played on CCTV before our concert. H/ever it made our job very difficult as we had to match at least to 1% of the great artist team of Smt M.S. Subbulakshmi's concert. It was a cd of vintage series of Doordharshan's Tiruvaiyaru performance collection and it was so nice to see Sri Kandadevi Alagiriswamy a legend Violin artist in the video and we were all happy to have his grandson performing with us on stage same day! Great coincidence and how many of us can have this happen in our lives!! Congrats Vijayaraghavan uncle.!

One of the audience wanted to perform a song on keyboard and appa accepted same if they had their own instrument. H/ever the person wanted to play on my instrument for which app informed that same can be done may be after the concert was over. When i asked him why he said that he explained to me saying, "We do not know if all the artists will oblige to play with a new person and also it would stop the flow of the concert performance". Well this is one of teh new things happened in our concert. All songs came out well and i liked Mahadeva Sivasambo in Revathya, Karadhare in Swarasammohini in carnatic and Poomalayil Poomalligai and SingaraVelane Deva in film songs which came out at its best.

Private Concert on the 19th May'08

It was another concert in Chennai with Ananthakrishnan anna on violin, Kumbakonam Swaminathan anna on mrudhangam, Nerkunam Sankar anna on Kanjeera and Hari anna on Ghatam and it came out very well. Only thing that may be the our dias was nearer to the Bride & Bridegrooms stage and so they had problem of loud music because of which we as artists had a problem of havig reduced volume on the monitors. Otherwise the concert went well as i also tried a new Kandachapu kriti Tholijenma in Bilahari as the main krithi for this day and AK anna appreciated me for this. Thanks to my uncle Embar Kanna who taught this krithi at around 4pm on 19th May'08.

Concert on the 15th May'08

This was a concert which i was playing with another new team of Sherthalai Sivakumar anna on violin, Kumbakonam Saravanan uncle on Mrudhangama nd EM Subramaniam uncle on Ghatam. It was one of the pleasant concert with lot of energy but as usual most of the best concerts do not get recorded and this was one of them. Both my Transcend and also the one of Karthick audio did not have enough battery and so we could not record this. H/ever it was indeed a good concert with all of us enjoying it.

Private concert in Chennai on 12th May'08

In this concert after a long time we had Prem uncle (Brother of Great Drums Vidwan Sivamani uncle) with us and with Ananthakrishnan anna on violin, Arjun Ganesh anna on Mrudhangam, Pradeep uncle on Tabla, Hari anna on Ghatam and Suri uncle on Bass guitar we had a good team and presented a concert with classical, devotional and film numbers. I also rehearsed the Revathy piece of my guru Kalaimamani Kum. A. Kanyakumari with Arjun Ganesh anna at home and performed in the evening. All the others followed it, this umber got good applause from the audience. Applause transferred to my guru for her great composition.

Interesting thing was that i played viol duet with AK (Ananthakrishnan) anna for Manayavyalakim! After announcing the song, there was drop in voltage because of which my keyboard could not function. AK anna was so nice to offer his second violin (which he had brought luckily!). When appa gave this suggestion not only the audience but even myself was surprised but decided to do it because i had just on the 10th sat for the 70 violin ensemble and that gave me the confidence to perform. AK anna appreciated my effort and it was so nice of him to have offered his instrument for me to play with. Check http://videosonsathya.blogspot.com/ for the video clipping with violin, film song and the Revathy numbers.

Private concert on the 11th May'08


It was one of the longest distance i traveled for a concert!! less than a kilometer! The venue was very near my house and the concert was organised and attended by one of my great well wisher Balu uncle (TS Mahalingam Sons). Our team with Venkat anna on violin, Calcutta Karthick anna on Mrudhangam and Hari anna on the Ghatam & Morsing had some difficulties because of the echo nature of the hall and thanks to Thirunavukarasu uncle - Karthik Audio, we had a good presentation. I had the oppurtunity to meet my school friend and his family also in this concert.

A day i will remember for ever - My first concert with violin 10th May'08

Sathya in 70 Violin concert in Kalaimamani Kum A. Kanyakumari's grand show at Bangalore 10May'08

It was a great show of the melody of Violin and i was happy to have been a part, thanks to my guru Kanyakumari madam to have given this oppurtunity. It was also an amzing audience turn out inspite of the busy interesting IPL matches and the election which was on in Bangalooru on the 10th May'08.

I really missed my uncle Embar Kannan and i am happy to give you a link for the photos taken during the rehearsal, mike test and the concert performance. Credits to appa for that, however please bear with few which have not come good.

Please click on the photo above to view the others.