Dec 2010 Chennai= Madras 3000 concerts and dancepreformances

Jayanthi Kumaresh
She has a great voice and plays the veena very well I saw the on the 19Th of Dec. in the Krishna Gana sabha.

M.D. Pallavi a hindusthani singer

 The Saba hall is build by Mr. Nelly from the famous silk and sari shops. He build a small and a big hall in a nice park with a restaurant.
The concerts and the food are always very good.
There are always many lectures and demo's of music ,dance and vocal in the small hall.

Jayanthi and M.d Pallavi preformed a wonderfull story with music and clasic vocal. the other great star that night was the young talented singer abishek Rughuram. It was a mix of north and south Indian classic music with a good Mdrangam and tablas

Zakir Hussein

Sri nivas

Sri Nivas mandolin

 Sri Nivasa has been one of my favorites since a very long time. He plays a small electric 6 string mandoline. In 1985 when he was only 15 , I saw him for the first time in Chennai. Later I have seen him several times with the group Shakti. In that group was also Zakir Hussein the most wel known tabla player from India.
This year on the 20Th of Dec. they played here in chennai, but without John Mclaughlin and Selva Ganesh. Later in the same week Selva did another concert with Sri nivas band. All together I did see them 3 times in 5 days.

The mandoline sisters, Sri sha and Sri Usha.

Padma shankar, vocal, Karai mohanaraman violin

 The Mandoline sisters

Two hardworking musicians that play very nice together.

Sri nivas's Ghatam player

Look at our 'little' tickets

Shiv Kumar sharma played the santoor, He also played in the Shakti band before.

The Kalpalesh wara temple in Mylapore Madras

Mahalaxmi a great Baratnatyam dancer

Balachandran a very good flute player

Sri nivasa and Selva Ganesh

Selva ganesh played the Kanjira, he played for several years in the group shakti. His father played in the same band before that time.

Bangalore V Parveen played the mrdrangam with Sri nivasa

Sri Nivasa

Gaayatri.E. played a amazing veena on 25 dec. I went to see her after the concert.

After 5 years its raining again, Arunachala with lakes and rivers

The rice field next to my house in Vediapanur

Raining, its raining again after many years with not enough rain we did have a good month of rainfall.

 Little streams everywhere from Arunachala.

 The new water reservoirs are all full

 the paths are now streams of water

 Rain clouds above Arunachala

 There is more water in the lakes than before 4 years when we last had a good rain.

 Near the old nursery

 the very big tank near Adi Annamalai

View from my roof. My gardens were all flooded.

Music and food in my house in Tiruvannamalai , Vediapanur

 Music and food in my living room , Geetam , Peter, Marco, Richard, winet, Erika, Geetam

 Tilicho and Marco and Heith

 Raman a Indian classic and jazz musician, he play also sax and silver flute

 My kitchen, the gas cylinder was empty and Sanda borrowed me her induction cooker

 Mira and Tilcho in my living room

 Tilicho singing in deep trance

 Victor and Tilicho on Heith's roof. The last 6 weeks we have been meeting with this group of musicians to play and record music.I have been playing the percussion; tambourine and Gatam. And cooked food.