Varied forms of music

Global festival

Shankar Mahadevan Academy is presenting the ‘Sontakke Global Music Festival 2013’ from December 15 to 25 at Chowdaiah Hall, Alliance Francaise, Gyana Samaja, Jagriti Theatre, Sangeet Vidyapeeth and Santana Kalakshetra. 

Artistes Manasi Prasad and team, Praveen Godkhindi and Prakash Sontakke will perform on December 15, 9 am at Alliance Francaise. Pandit Ramakant Gundecha will present a dhrupad workshop followed by an interaction with ‘Food’ band on December 17, 6 pm at Jagriti Theatre. A workshop on jazz improvisation and Hindustani collaboration followed by a performance by ‘Food’ will held on December 18, 6 pm at Octavium Academy. 

Jagadeesh Madhuri, Iain Ballamy, Gerard Machado, Vaishali Srinivas, Thomas Stronen and ‘Thermal & A Quarter’ will perform on December 19, 7 pm at Opus Creek. On December 20, 9 pm, ‘Food’ will perform at Bflat, Indiranagar.  

Listen to MD Pallavi, Chaitra Sontakke,MK Tejasvini and a 25-violin ensemble on December 21, 9 am at Gayana Samaja. Varijashree and Fayyaz Khan, Jyotsna Srikanth, Prakash Sontakke, and Ian Ballamy, Thomas Stronen, Anoor Anantkrishna Sharma and Soundarya Srivatsa will delight the audience on December 21, 5 pm.  On December 22, ‘Global Rythm Ensemble’ and ‘Octavium Band’ will perform at Take 5. The festival ends on December 25 with artistes Raghavan, Krishnendra Vadikar and Shivamani and others performing at Chowdaiah Memorial Hall from 9 am.