Concert at an open air for a keen lovable audience 24th Apr'08
I enjoyed playing this concert, as i do others, particularly in a wedding concert which was very attentive,knowledgeable and appreciative too. Yes most of our concerts are like this and this was a presentation myself with VenkataSubramaniam anna on violin, Thillaisthanam Suriyanarayanan uncle on mrudhangam, Sowrirajan uncle on Ghatam, Kanjeera and Morsing alongwith the Karthick uncle (Audio person) will remember for a long time to come.

There were many Sai devotee and in fact Mr Sriram a strong devotee sang a bhajan and i learnt it on stage just before the start and presented it much to his joy. The reaction he showed when i played will be there in my eyes for ever. It only showed / taught to satisfy people as much as possible as they get the best pleasure out of the music media. Thanks to KrishnaRam uncle who was instrumental for this presentation and it was indeed a great day for us.

A concert with oth Carnatic & film numbers 24 Apr'08


This was a concert which was actually booked around Aug'08 and we were eagerly looking forward for this presentation. The team of Ananthakrihsnan anna on violin, Sowrirajan uncle on Thavil, Sriram anna on Rhythm Pad, Gerard uncle on Bass guitar, Suri uncle on Mrudhangam and Bala anna on Nadaswaram jived so well that even the test piece for PA system was applauded the audience as it was our on the spot idea number on ragam Vasanthi.

It was great fun all throughout the concert with ideas pouring well from our minds and it was indeed one of the great shows we as team has presented for this much awaited concert. I liked the outcome of the Sai Bhajan 'Krishna Madhava' which got applause from one and all present including the artists themselves. Interesting info is that the Nadaswaram band for the wedding was there al through out and appreciated my efforts to play both forms of music to bring the best of them.

A new atempt with Nadaswaram instead of Violin - 23Apr'08

It was a new attempt by us in this concert with Nadhaswaram in place of Violin and BalaSundaram anna did a wonderful concert with me. Swaminathan anna on Mrudhangam, Hari anna on Ghatam & Morsing and Pradeep uncle on Tabla were excellent and the concert came out very well with appreciation from all the audience. Once again it was not like a concert in a private function but was like a concert held in a Sabha. Thank you audience and thanks to Thirunavukaru anna of Karthick audio for a good PA System provided as usual.

Concert on the 20th April'08 Morning

We reached home very late yesterday night and as we had a concert for Grahapravesham of our well wisher where i was to perform with Akkarai Swarnalatha on violin and Manikudi Chandrasekaran uncle on mrudhangam, got up early and was in their new house by 8:30am. We had a presentation of about 100 mts and it was a chamber concert. I was happy to get appreciation from Swarnalatha's father and also Chandrasekaran uncle as this was the first time i was performing with him. A good house and hope we gave a good concert too!

A concert with my Nephew on the 19th April'08



After the concert for the inauguration of Eesa Yoga it was today for a private wedding function and when we arrived at the hall, i was pleasantly surprised by the huge crowd. We as a team gave i think a good evening of music for them as many had stayed back to appreciate us and also bought my albums. I performed with my nephew after a long time as he just finished his 12th Std and he was on the Rhythm Pad. We all enjoyed the show with Villiwakkam Raghuraman uncle on violin, Ramesh uncle on the Tabla, Suri uncle on Bass guitar, Sowrirajan uncle on Thavil and Arjun Ganesh anna on the Mrudhangam As usual Sangeetha Raja anna of Karthick audio fixed our PA system in a good way and the success was also mainly due his good work as well.

It was indeed a concert i liked very much for the youth audience in the IT industry for Tenth Planet Technologies and it came out very good. I also had the great opportunity to know about Yoga in a clear way and it has made me to decide in joining this course at this new Center opened yesterday at the basement of # 807 Anna Salai, Chennai 600002. (opp LIC main office).

Swamianathan anna on Mrudhangam and Sowre uncle on Ghatam, Morsing, Kanjeera and Konnakol gave an excellent presentation and all of us also enjoyed the good food at the end of the concert. I look forward to going to this office and having more interaction with the CEO Sri Kumaran Mani uncle and Sai uncle. I was moved when a sadhu / volunteer from Eesha center decided to give a gift of Rs 1000/- by cheque and hope i get an oppurtunity to perform in front of Guruji as a lead artist. I had performed there with Dr Ghatam Karthick uncle's heArtbeat two years back for Maha Sivarathiri.

The audio link for the soncert is http://www.esnips.com/web/Sathyaon19Apr2008

It was a concert i was looking forward which came thru just on the 11th when appa was asked if we can perform on the 14th April'08 at the Sringeri Saradhambal Temple in Kruupasankari Street, West Mambalam, Chennai. It was so because i was born and also was there staying in the same street for almost 6 years now and my first ever public concert for may be 15 mts with patriotic songs on keyboard was also at the same street. So it was so nice to have got the oppurtunity to perform here in front of known people who probably had seen me playing cricket and doing cycling all through out in the street! I all felt good when i saw few of my friends whom i had played with, in the first row and they all were very nice and kind to come and appreciate me! It was also great to get Prasadam from guruji Ramakrishnan like this!

Overall a concert i liked for various reasons, including my athai from Melbourne's presence and will be there in my mind for a long time to come. The audio of this concert is in http://tinyurl.com/3vbjs4 and video in

It was nice of Ramjhi uncle to call me on stage to take photos with Sri SPB sir at Bhartatia Vidya Bhavan where Issai Mazhalai's this year series of concerts , i.e. Second Friday of every month and also a week festival in dec 14 - 21st'08. Ramjhi uncle called all the achievers on stage and i was one among them and was happy to be a part of this great organisation of Ramjhi uncle. Erode Anatharaman gave a performance with Shyam on violin, AkshayRam on Mrudhangam and Krishna on Ghatam after which SPB uncle spoke and appreciated every one's talents. It was a great day to start Ramanavami day! This black & white photo i like taken by appa of mine!

A good concert i will remember for the Charukesi Varnam 12th Apr'08

I enjoyed the concert very much and thanks to Suri uncle for asking me to play the Charukesi varnam and i have fallen in love with that Lalgudi sir varnam. The ambience was so spiritual and i am giving few photos of Lord Rama and Anjaneya here. The organiser felicitated me with a big garland, almost my size, it was too heavy also! Amma tooka picture and am giving that also. The violin tone of Ak anna was really good and Chandru ws really 'kalakaraChandru' only this day.

Amma as solo singer for a TV serial title song

I had a good concert yesterday [11h April, 2008] and in the middle amma got a call for a recording. As i was performing on stage she just signed me and i thought it was another recording. After my concert and went to the studio with appa to pick her up and was happy to listen to the track she had sung - a title song for the Raj TV serial to be on air very shortly. The music has been scored by Mr Ravi and hope this will be thru' and all of you can listen to her voice in Raj TV. 

Concert to be remembered for many first attempts! 7Apr08 - Coimbatore

It was indeed a concert in which many things were attempted for the first time. Yes I tried Gananayakam in ragam Poornashadjam, Parvathi Nayakane in Shanmugapriya, Hari anna tried Morsing and myself out of my own interest when we had a small break during the concert tried Ghatam!

I am sure every thing came out very well as Venkat anna (violin) and Suri uncle (mrudhangam) apart from the organisers appreciated us in total. How ever i do not know to what level my Ghatam experiment was!! A concert which will be remembered for just not our execution on stage but also with the fond memories having played cricket and chess during this trip to our hearts content!.Here is the video clippings of this concert and you can also listen to the audio in www.sangeethamshare.org/sathya and opt for s.no. 009. Then right click it and use the option save target as to save & listen.


http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=01267DD1FF87F918

I had a great experience at Sivam, Hyderabad with appearance of Swami himself in the face of Sri Somayajalu while performing! It was amidst a large devotees of Swamiji the concert was performed with Sri Rajesh on violin, Sri Somayajulu on Mrudhangama and his sishya on ghatam. As per the request of Sri Pattabi - the organiser and many devotees, i performed popular krithis and bhajans. Hope I would get an oppurtunity to perform at Parthi also!

Here is a link of the article in Indian Express Hyderabad dated 5th April'08
http://newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEU20080404232340&Page=U&Title=Hyderabad&Topic=0&

Concert - Entrepreneurship Meet of CII on the 28th Mar'08 in Chennai

I was fortunate to have got this concert as I was performing for the CII conference one again, now in Chennai for the Dinner hosted by TVS group of companies. High profile audience who had been on a long day of conference looked like enjoyed the show as most of them came personally to me and appreciated. Appa suggested to mix little bit of Hindustani numbers and it had a good impact too. I tried out Smt. Ambujam Krishna's - Oododi Vanthen Kanna in Dharmavathy, for the first time and it was appreciated by Venkat anna on the violin, Suri uncle on the Mrudhangam and Hari anna on the Ghatam. Venkat anna performed with his new Silent violin and it was really great!

Our sincere thanks to Mr Vasudevan, Mr Prasanna, Mr Mahesh Kumar and the TVS group of companies for this great oppurtunity.

Concerts on the 24th and 27th March'08

We enjoyed i.e. Vijaraghavan uncle on violin, Arjun anna on Mrudhangam and Hari anna on Ghatam, this private concert in Chennai for ambience, good audience and our own performance which came out very well. In fact we had a 60 year old man dancing like a snake for teh song "Nadhamudi mel irukkum nallapambe". When he requested this to be performed we did not know that he was to dance but when he started dancing it was really a great effort and we on stage thought could not see few of his movements as he was lying on the gorund and twisting his body as if a real snake will do!! It was mind boggling and thanks to the camera man who shot this in showed it in their ccTV immediately.

The concert on the 27th Mar was for a friend's family of Suri uncle and it also came out well with the team of Raghuram uncle on violin, Suri uncle on Mrudhangam and Hari anna on Ghatam. It looks like Hari anna has become a part and parcel of our family and i really enjoy time spent in playing with him.

Coimbatore trip for the concert on the 23rd Mar'08

This trip to Coimbatore will not be forgotten in many ways! Yes! of all trips this was one in which i slept well before going for the concert. I played to my hearts content with Hari anna and also we were involved with Gopi mama and family with their love and affection we were in a mood of having gone for a holiday! We had a small concert session in his house and it was real Joy! Thanks to Biju anna for doing a smart fast driving to bring my keyboard in time to start the concert and what a great audience both in terms of number and quality!

The audience stayed through out and enjoyed every number of ours with the team of Rajeev anna on Violin, Suri uncle on Mrudhangam and Hari anna on the ghatam. The highlight was the ragamalika RTP and the medley which appa coined just on stage!. Appa was just spelling out the song names and i was just playing it without any rehearsal and it came out well too! Thanks to Navneet anna, my well wisher in Coimbatore who came and gave a cd of few photos and videos he took during our Nadham Concert in Coimbaote.

For the full audio track log on to www.sangeethamshareshare.org/sathya and get to the serial number 7 for this concert. You can right click on each track and use the option SAVE TARGET AS to save and listen to the tracks. You can see few of the video clipping down below:

A good concert in Madurai TamilNadu Govt. Music College - 18th Mar'08

Playing back to back concert and that too public concert is what i like the most and when it comes out good we have the best satisfaction. Yes with the team of Rajeev anna on violin, Calcutta Karthick anna on the mrudhangam and Hari anna on the ghatam performed at the Kaga Bhujander Temple, Tambaram on the 17th Mar and then traveled to Madurai and performed at TamilNadu Govt. Music College, Madurai on the 18th Mar'08from 12noon to 130pm with Nellai Ravindran sir on Violin, Madurai Thyagarajan sir on Mrudhangam and Papanasam Sethuraman uncle on the kanjeera.

This concert at Madurai had all the students and the faculty as the audience and it came out well too. I was at ease with the new team of artists and i think it was same for them too as the result was good. The experience of performing to almost entire audience putting thalam throughout and enjoying the concert as if they are performing together is really unique and it is probably one of the few after the concert i had performed in their Head quarters in Chennai and also i remember the same experience at the Ayakudi concert.

The college is situated in a beautiful location amidst mountains and fields and i think it is one of the best suited environment for learning particularly Music! Our delay experience with train continued as the train on the 17th Mar came late to Tambaram while we boarded but was fortunate with just 20mts delay while reaching Chennai on the 19th Mar'08. By this i could go in time to write the exam with all my classmates!

A new experience at the Kaga Bhujandar Temple on the 17th Mar'08


Yes to perform in front of Sri Ramani Guruji with a large audience at the Kaga Bhujandar ashram Temple was indeed a divine and inspiring experience. I was also of having been blessed when Guruji said that the "Parivatta Mariyadhai" was being given for the first time for an artist performing on that dias and more so when all the artist were given the honour. I always feel that my music is successful with the enhancement of the artists who perform with me and it was only right that they were also honoured. Great to see many foreigners as audience and all of them enjoyed and appreciated the music as well as our audience and were in traditional attair too!

A concert i will remember for all different reasons!





Yes this trip to Karur was indeed a great story. I went to Karur for a private concert to be presented on the 16th Mar'08 with Rajeev anna on violin, Calcutta Karthick anna on Mrudhangam and Hari anna on Ghatam. I also had my amma and appa joining this trip and we had a lovely day in Karur visiting famous temples namely, Thanthondri Malai Venkatachalapathy temple, Vennai malai Murugan temple and Easwaran Temple. Venkatesh uncle (seen in the picture above) from KVB was the co-ordinator and it was a pleasant time spent with him as he had a bankful of questions which were thought provoking and some were kadi specials. Our stay and arrangements were wonderful and the concert also went very well. However the return travel from Karur to Erode was little hectic with a Matador van and now begins the story!

When we were on the road we met with a probable accident which could have been our last breath indeed. Our driver was very rash and almost gave us VISA for the godly world!! On reaching Erode in time 1110pm to take the train at 1155pm we enquired the railway officials and were informed that the train was on time. However after 1140pm, just then 3 trains to Chennai passed us, they informed that our Cheran Express was delayed for 160 mts. I got a shock as i had a exam today 17th Mar'08 at 815am. When tried to explain and get our ticket endorsed for another 2 trains which also passed before this came in, the Station Master Mr Subramaniam, was not helpful at all. But a railway guard of one of the trains was at least considerate in saying that if we manage a seat in General compartment (Unreserved) he would take care of our ticket. When we saw the general coach it was just overflowing and appa decided to take on the original train itself.

Cheran express finally came in at 3am and managed to maintain the running time of 6hrs and we reached Chennai Central at 9am. In the meantime amma spoke to my School Principal, who was very considerate and granted permission to write the exam if in case can make to school before 1045 am. On reaching home at 950am, changed to school uniform picked up the kit for Maths exam and managed to be in school at 1005 am.

It was indeed a different experience and i am sure i will remember this Maths exam for ever. Thanks to my appa who had the telephone number of one of my school admin staff Mr Ramani and that of the school, we could speak to the Principal and write this exam. A real story indeed!.

Ps. Special mention is on the Venkatachalapathy & Thayar backdrop done by Best Mano - 98940 61584 which was indeed very realistic and we had a feeling of being there in TTD, Venkatanarayana Road itself!

Private concert on the 10th Mar'08


I had a great concert today as i had a full bench team of Venkat anna on Violin, Suri uncle on Mrudhangam, Harish anna on Kanjeera, my dear friend Chandru on ghatam and Pradeep uncle on Tabla. This was for a very good well wisher's family function and ultimately it came out well also. I tried few new songs like Andhi Mayangudhadi, Idathupadham Thooki aadu, Needhan Mechikollavendum, Kathirupan Kamalakannan, Aarumo Aaval etc. I sincerely thank Rasikapriya Yahoo group for having sent me the mp3 for the last two songs mentioned and i sincerely hope that i have performed to an acceptable level.

You can log on to http://sangeethamshare.org/sathya and listen to the directory 005_Private_concert_ in_ Chennai

Here is the link for the video clippings taken by my amma.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FEE58A5FF9E40334