Chennai | Konarak Reddy celebrates 50 years of music with Madras 1968 concert at Alliance Française

Chennai | Konarak Reddy celebrates 50 years of music with Madras 1968 concert at Alliance Française

 Konarak Reddy | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement English sculptor Henry Moore once said, “There’s no retirement for an artist; it’s your way of living, so there’s no end to it.” While there may not be retirement, there is a transition into a certain sense of ease in one’s art. For guitarist Konarak Reddy, this transition […]

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Playback singer Madhushree enthralls music lovers in Chennai with Tamil hits

Playback singer Madhushree enthralls music lovers in Chennai with Tamil hits

Madhushree breaks into a jig | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Tamil Cultural Academy celebrated its 23rd anniversary with Kodai Isai Vizha Season 3 – a musical soiree featuring well-known playback singer Madhushree Bhattacharya. The singer, acclaimed for hits like ‘Vaaji Vaaji’, ‘Mayilrage’ and ‘Eppo Nee ’, performed in Chennai for the first time at […]

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IndoSoul is bringing equilibrium back to its music

IndoSoul is bringing equilibrium back to its music

Soul-stirring is how one would usually describe music by IndoSoul, but with the band’s latest album Equilibrium, they are looking to do something quite the opposite. Twelve songs shortlisted from about 40 songs, over four years, form the album which comes at a time when the band looks to re-explore its roots post-pandemic. “The time […]

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Yamini Ghantasala ventures into Telugu independent music with ‘Needhe Aakasam’, surprises her brother S Thaman

Yamini Ghantasala ventures into Telugu independent music with ‘Needhe Aakasam’, surprises her brother S Thaman

Yamini Ghantasala in the Telugu independent song ‘Needhe Aakasam’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement ‘Needhe Aakasam’ (The sky is yours), the first Telugu independent song composed and sung by Yamini Ghantasala, is the playback singer’s ode to the vast sky that she says, has a calming effect on her. “Half my phone gallery is filled […]

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Cheer for Chennai’s musicians: How Tamil independent music is on the right track

Cheer for Chennai’s musicians: How Tamil independent music is on the right track

The performance space at DakshinaChitra, located in Chennai’s ECR, is lit up. As the sea breeze amps up the nip in the air, MS Krsna begins to strum his guitar. The performance is as engaging as it is unique. He chats about the number of dosas that he thinks his grandmother would have made in […]

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Pambai to kombu: This Chennai music museum showcases traditional Tamil instruments

Pambai to kombu: This Chennai music museum showcases traditional Tamil instruments

Chennai-based Kosai Nagaraan Tholisai Karuviyagam, which has a collection of over 80 instruments, aims to bring back traditional Tamil instruments to the limelight Chennai-based Kosai Nagaraan Tholisai Karuviyagam, which has a collection of over 80 instruments, aims to bring back traditional Tamil instruments to the limelight Koyambedu, one of Chennai’s most vibrant localities, is well […]

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Meet Sarthak Kalyani, the singer who wowed AR Rahman

Meet Sarthak Kalyani, the singer who wowed AR Rahman

Singer Sarthak Kalyani has sung tracks for in AR Rahman’s ‘Cobra’ and ‘Iravin Nizhal’ Singer Sarthak Kalyani has sung tracks for AR Rahman’s ‘Cobra’ and ‘Iravin Nizhal’ “This will be the song of the year,” Tamil film lyricist Thamarai announced during the recent audio launch of Vikram-starrer Cobra, “Listen to it, and you will never […]

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Meet Sarthak Kalyani, the singer who wowed AR Rahman

Meet Sarthak Kalyani, the singer who wowed AR Rahman

Singer Sarthak Kalyani has sung tracks for in AR Rahman’s ‘Cobra’ and ‘Iravin Nizhal’ Singer Sarthak Kalyani has sung tracks for AR Rahman’s ‘Cobra’ and ‘Iravin Nizhal’ “This will be the song of the year,” Tamil film lyricist Thamarai announced during the recent audio launch of Vikram-starrer Cobra, “Listen to it, and you will never […]

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From Roja to Brahms: how the South Asian Symphony Orchestra regaled Chennai

From Roja to Brahms: how the South Asian Symphony Orchestra regaled Chennai

The South Asian Symphony Orchestra mesmerised the audience into a silence through their Peace Notes performance The South Asian Symphony Orchestra mesmerised the audience into a silence through their Peace Notes performance As a war of musical prowess was waged on stage by the South Asian Symphony Orchestra (SASO), the audience was left in peaceful […]

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NCPA musicians come to Chennai with Mozart’s Overture to the ‘Marriage of Figaro’

NCPA musicians come to Chennai with Mozart’s Overture to the ‘Marriage of Figaro’

For the first time since the pandemic began, the Symphony Orchestra of India returns to the national stage with a series of concerts outside of its hometown Mumbai For the first time since the pandemic began, the Symphony Orchestra of India returns to the national stage with a series of concerts outside of its hometown […]

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