I suspect that they did not know when the schedule was published, which would have been a couple of months previously. What is a t fault is my memory, that I do not remember if it was announced or added to the sign at the venue.

Nor can I tell you what he played. I'm not a "proper" rasika at all.

Yes, he certainly held my attention, but I find that, with my head attuned to carnatic and the carnatic presentation, it is difficult to retune to the North. Once upon a time it was the other way around!

Although I am an ignorant rasika, I am so used to the carnatic form. I was mentioning to a friend I met at that concert (Chennai Music Season: impossible to be alone!) that with both the pieces that he played, I had no idea when they were about to end, whereas with carnatic, even if I can't annouce, "Pallavi, Anapallavi, Charanum..." My brain knows the pattern. The percussion cadences, thiermanums and korvais, are also [usually] obvious to me.

It is the simple result of one thing. During my  past decade: Carnatic concerts, probably over a thousand: Hindustani concerts, probably not much more than dozen.

I strongly felt the impact of being dropped in at the very-deep end with this rudra veena concert. Absolutely no warmup or winding up, but straight into long, deep, contemplative exploration of low, low notes.

I also attended a Dhrupad vocal concert a couple of weeks earlier, at a small, semi-open venue that was ideal for the purpose. This was  Pandit Uday Bhawalkar, accompanied by Pratap Awad. The pakhawaj accompaniment was very beautiful. I found it more akin to the mridangam than the tabla, not only because of its deeper tone, but because of the way that he followed the phrasing of the singer.

Hoping for more Dhrupad here! (more Hindustani generally, in fact --- especially as my wife prefers it). The friend who roganised the vocal concert told me that I completely missed a whole Dhrupad festival at Kalakshetra a year or three ago  .

The photo above is from a special Ragam Tanum Pallavi concert given by N Ravikiran on the Chitra veena. This concert, with a 1-hour-plus RTP was as close to Dhrupad as it gets

Went to Star Vista Performing Arts Centre last Saturday for Lantis' 15th Anniversary tour here in Singapore. So worth the money spend on getting the front seats. Acoustics was pretty awesome for such a genre and a welcome change from convention halls/warehouse turned to stages. Did not feel the need to wear earplugs and left with my hearing intact.

Artistes were off course, amazeballs though one of them was kinda jittered or nervous(Choucho) in a foreign stage so she kinda held back with her voice. Lineup was kinda all over the place as they are from the same label so I get a lot of exposure to genres that I'm less used to(mostly boybands and Jrock). They reserved the best for the last in the form of JAM Project though, god damn they put on performance with energy way beyond their age. Glad they had a tour band for the concert as well, gives the performers a lot of freedom to play with the audience.

Holy shit. Excellent price to performance ratio.

Seems like this thread has been dormant for several months, but I have to share.  Saw Jonatha Brooke (folk rock, singer sonwriter, former member of Story) last night in Denver.  She was solo and superb.  Excellent musician, freaking great voice and fun between the songs. 

One of the great things was the venue, Swallow Hill Music in Denver which seats about 300.  About 200 showed and dead center 5th row was great for the event.  Sound was perfect and very enjoyable.  Try to catch her at one of the many smaller venues she is playing tonight in Seattle thru the next few weeks down the west coast. 

If you are a bit tired of big venues, horrible blasting sound, then this might be right up your alley, it was for me.  Then again I am a HUGE fan.

Let me know how you like if you decide to go.  Oh, and I dare you not to shed a tear when she sings "time".

cheers

http://jonathabrooke.com/